Soldato
That's ironic because you also spend a lot of time discussing things that have no effect on you, but I suppose that's the point of a forum..Lol as I said too sensitive, his actions are having no effect on you.
Andi.
That's ironic because you also spend a lot of time discussing things that have no effect on you, but I suppose that's the point of a forum..Lol as I said too sensitive, his actions are having no effect on you.
Andi.
Yes that's me.That's ironic because you also spend a lot of time discussing things that have no effect on you, but I suppose that's the point of a forum..
Get a 2nd opinion. 1900 houses can be quite damp.
Mine did - 1960s council house. It recommended a specialist damp report which I had done with Peter Cox. This was after I'd done some research and found out about all the potential for fraudulent damp reports and recommendations for expensive unnecessary remedial works.
The damp survey came back to say that on the ground floor, about 50% of the external walls and one of the internal walls were suffering from rising damp, and recommending a new DPC being injected (by them), and all the internal walls having the plaster stepped and re-done using their specialist damp proof render. The upstairs was also reported to suffer badly from condensation, which I'd already seen when I viewed as one of the rooms was being used to dry clothes with the window obviously never being opened
So I moved in and I thought I'd get the place stripped, ventilated and heated for a while before considering whether it needed anything doing. In the lounge/diner the carpet was damp in a number of places and there was thick vinyl wallpaper on the walls. Stripped it all and on the blocked up chimney the plaster was soaking wet The air vent was completely blocked and the wallpaper was waterproof so the wall obviously couldn't breathe at all. Within a week it was dry and there's no evidence of moisture coming from anywhere else. All signs point to it coming in from the chimney and tracking along the carpet. I'll get a better chimney cap fitted just to be on the safe side but the vent is working fine for now. Upstairs is also completely dry.
Tl;dr survey said rising damp, I ventilated and heated and now it's fine.
This is always the worst as you just want it locked in. I am sure it will go through though and all will be well with the world again.
Just string it along, they wont pull out and remarket if you are 4 weeks in and only 4 weeks away for example, and they are into a legal bill too at that point. They'd serve to do nothing but delay things to de-rail the deal at that point.Got a weird one at the moment, and I want to check with people to see if they've had this before also?
We found a house we liked in early Jan (i.e. 2nd Jan), made an offer and had it accepted instantly. We then marketed our property and had 15 viewings in 6 days, 5 offers including 3 over - one significantly over (almost 7%), which we subsequently accepted. The buyer hadnt sold or marketed their property, but we didnt see that as an issue as the person we were buying from hadnt bought a property either.
Fast forward a month; the house we were buying has now fallen through therefore we went out to view another house, liked it and put an offer in. We received an answer that 'the number is acceptable, but they want the chain to close within the next 4 weeks else they'll look to put the property back on the market'? Obviously our buyer is doing all they can to sell, and has already dropped their house price by £50K to get it moving, so what else can we do? Has anyone been in this scenario before? The house we are buying is over £500K therefore they'll always have a chain (unless theres a very flush FTB!), so i'm thinking this is just them trying to create artificial pressure to hurry people along?
I think 4 weeks seems fair to me. Whilst chains are inevitable, 4 weeks is long enough generally to get a house sold provided it's priced right. .
Well were 3 weeks in after going under offer and have hopefully just found a house, offer today.
It was sold before but the buyer fell through so back on the market, it seems a interested party from before has made a offer too but may not be as strong as us in position.
previously sold for 490k, now up at 500k, tempted to offer 490k
Fingers crossed, we are going from a 3 story 3/4 bed ex council house with 1200 sq ft to a 4 bed detached with double garage and a unreal kitchen diner with 2000 ish sq ft +garage
Heres hoping
when you say sold, do you mean having the keys? that seems pretty quick, i was a cash buyer on an empty property with no chain and that took 2 months from offer being accepted to having the keys in my hand