@Blobby10 our mortgage company have already agreed to lend to us. We have our full building survey booked in next week. Hoping that the movement was definitely just previous and not ongoing. I guess it must be quite common in older houses.
@Bumblebeemee huge congratulations. I will never understand why people think it's ok to not vacate the house that they no longer own as quickly as possible for the new owners. Sorry it was left dirty for you. Also can't get my head around the not cleaning. I'm trying to keep really on top of the cleaning here as I wouldn't dream of leaving it a mess for the buyers. I may even get a cleaner in for a quick extra clean before we leave. I hope you are now relaxed and enjoying your new home.
@KnobJockey Yay. Agree you must let us know when baby arrives. I hope you have many happy years as a family in your lovely new home.
@sandybayley I hope all goes smoothly for you today. When your settled I would love to see some pics of the new place.
@Violetroselily I'm sorry the viewing didn't go as well as you had hoped. I bet you will love it. Our current house was beyond filth when we moved in. The children didn't even want to step foot inside as it stunk. I'll attach some pics of before and afters. It will give you hope that anything can be turned around with a bit of elbow grease. It's just a shame people think it's ok to not cleanIs your mortgage offer all sorted now? We are viewing the house we are buying again next week to measure up for furniture and flooring.
@Fleabag123 Congratulations. I'm sure you will absolutely love it once your in and you can start making it your own. I'm worried about buyers remorse as we are going from a new build estate to a street. It is a very pretty tree lined street but the house needs a lot of work.
@TulipsfromAmsterdam Wow the house you wanted is obviously meant to be yours. I hope you have continuing good luck here on in.
@MrBobLobLaw Goodness me what is wrong with people. Taking the integrated appliances, what for? Hopefully it's just them not understanding the fixtures and fittings form. Some people feel like it means they need to take everything. I would get your solicitor to get onto them straight away. It's certainly not the norm to take integrated appliances.
So things are going ok here. My solicitor is being very slow though and it's driving me slightly insane. Our vendors have said they can't do September for completion as they won't be ready but are happy for first week of October. It's fine by me as it's only a month away 
. If it happens the whole process this time around from us selling to completion will be 9 weeks. Just a shame we wasted 15 weeks previous to that and we had been on the market since last August. I'm a bit worried about all the work that will need doing to the new place but excited about sitting in the garden room with a coffee looking out to the gorgeous 100ft garden.
I've attached a few before and afters of our current house to set minds at rest about all the work you feel is needed. This all took three weeks.