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Help! My house is falling down!

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expatinscotland · 10/08/2010 20:05

Anyone who's dipshit enough to buy a £250,000, 18th century house without bothering to do a structural survey before purchase deserves a swift kick in the jacksie, not help from a show.

What a pair of dumbasses.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 26/08/2010 00:52

thank gawd for that

obv i am not a bb fan or i would have known that lol

fuzzypicklehead · 31/08/2010 20:13

anybody watching tonight?

tefal · 31/08/2010 20:16

Me. Just can't understand why people would buy without a survey but more shocked at the fact they bought that house for £80,000!

Surely the council can't say no to cutting down when it is affecting a house like that?

unfitmother · 31/08/2010 20:20

Didn't they think there might be a catch?

fuzzypicklehead · 31/08/2010 20:22

I would hope a grade 2 listed building would trump a preserved tree, but who knows? But yes, I'm surprised they came in and spent the money decorating without checking it out first--but at least they hadn't moved in!

hophophippidtyhop · 31/08/2010 20:22

And he's a building contractor too! Do you think his reputation for knowing what he's talking about might be affected after being on this?

fuzzypicklehead · 31/08/2010 20:27

The photos of the windows just seemed so blatantly wrong, all wonky and at a funny angle--did they not even look at it first?

tefal · 31/08/2010 20:29

The smoke thing just on was quite shocking!

Katz · 31/08/2010 20:35

fluffy - did you're insurance cough up for the drains? and are they still monitoring the subsidance?

Katz · 31/08/2010 20:36

have they said how old the trees are? which were there first the trees or the house?

fuzzypicklehead · 31/08/2010 20:47

They just showed a photo of the tree as a sapling when the house was built.

tefal · 31/08/2010 21:14

Yep. Trees were 100 years old.

Blondeshavemorefun · 03/09/2010 08:57

who the hell would buy a house from an auction and not look at it/survey it etc

a huge house like that costing £80k should have rang alarm bells

those roots were right buggers!!

if i ever move again, no way am i buying a house with big trees round it

the gaps in the windows were Shock

and all the woodworm

tho looked lovely after wards and think SB said they spent £12.5k on doing it up, which i think is a bargain (or have i got figures totally wrong)

ouryve · 04/09/2010 00:23

"A huge house like that costing £80k should have rang alarm bells"

And even in Hull! Houses in Hull are actually dirt cheap, but I live on another part of the North East coast where houses are equally cheap and our 2 bed terrace is worth about £80K. Even at auction they must have been totally naive not to think that some serious work would be needed at that price.

As for prices, the estimate for the windows when they eventually get them done is about £20K, but yes, still a bargain compared with a lot of the country. In reality, that lovely bit of the city is surrounded by some real shite - including a lot of the streets that used to appear regularly on Traffic Cops when it was based in Hull!

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expatinscotland · 07/09/2010 20:05

Oh joy! Too more complete fuckiots who bought a dump with no structural survey (but you know, just looking at it can tell anyone with more than two neurons all they need to know) and then are sad and shocked that it's a pile of rubble.

Where do they find these people?

How do people so moronic get mortgages?

And why help people like this? They deserve what they get for being so stoopid.

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expatinscotland · 07/09/2010 20:10

They just keep revealing themselves to be more and more dim.

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sethstarkaddersmum · 07/09/2010 20:22

I missed the first few episodes of this series - isn't it fab? Expat I am reading your posts on this thread to DH and they are making us laugh....

re the thing about the well in the early programme, my parents bought an 18th c house in the 70s which turned out to have a well under the stairs (and they had had a full survey which somehow missed it).

They thought they had discovered a cellar when they first found it, because the cobwebs were so thick across it they looked like a floor. My dad was just about to jump down into it when a bit of mortar got dislodged and splashed down into it and he stopped himself just in time

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expatinscotland · 07/09/2010 20:29

They probably haven't been electrocuted because their insides are made out of rock -their skulls are certainly full of them!

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expatinscotland · 07/09/2010 20:54

Yawn, it's like Property Ladder all over.

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careergirl · 07/09/2010 22:20

even without a survey just looking at those switches should have told them that a full rewire was needed.

Blondeshavemorefun · 09/09/2010 15:50

Grin @expat but sooooooooooo true

FFS those light switches/plugs should have told them

our house had to be re wired as part of our mortgage and ours looked normal Grin and the bank witheld £5k off our mortgage till we had it down, which 11 yrs ago was a lot iyswim

nikkershaw · 09/09/2010 15:53

oh i really liked this - thought it was helpful. easily to snurk but people do buy without thinking and they did fix it didn't they?!

noddyholder · 09/09/2010 15:56

I viewed that house last year1!

Blondeshavemorefun · 19/09/2010 22:25

moomin1973 - is your house on this week tuesday 21 sept?

think you said you were the 5th

Blondeshavemorefun · 21/09/2010 22:21

expat anyone :) watch this week?

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