Floating shelves are a nightmare. Just hope you got brick.

Heavy rain last night, and I got woken up in the middle of the night by a dripping sound. That’s never a good sign.

Sounds like there’s water dripping onto our kitchen’s false ceiling. Which is just under a foot below the actual ceiling, to allow for hidden ventilation ducts. But … with the odd setup of our building … at the furthest end of our kitchen, the last couple of feet actually have a void over the top, all the way up to the roof of the tenement three floors above. It’s like a dry riser, with services for the flats running up it. So I reckon that’s where the dripping water is. I reckon there’s a roof leak.

The toaster just knocked out our electricity - bonus, it stopped Tilly watching youtube.

My wife's been having sneaky teacakes apparently, and so removing the offending carbonised raisins that were shorting it out fixed it.

Could say I was having problems with the electric currant.



Hey - it's Christmas cracker joke season.

Time_on_my_hands wrote:

Could say I was having problems with the electric currant.

*slowclap.gif*

Yeah, credit where it's due, he was really raisin the bar with that pun!

A question. In the process of buying a house. Price agreed. Its all progressing as to be expected. Sellers are moving to rented accommodation as they decide where to go next. The said sellers revamped the kitchen back in 2014. They put in a £1,500 cooker and £1,500 fridge in the kitchen revamp. The house also has custom blinds and shutters throughout for the 18 windows. The sellers are asking us to pay £1000 for the cooker, fridge and blinds/shutters. They will throw in a large pine wardrobe in one of the bedrooms that they dont wish to take with them.

Now, my wife is saying pay them the money, they arent budging on the amount. I think personally if we didnt pay them and played a game of who blinks first they would leave the blinds/shutters and cooker / wardrobe behind. As the blinds/shutters are custom for those windows and the cooker is almost 2 meters in length and there are loads of them on ebay. The fridge isnt important it just fits the cove in the kitchen perfectly. We have a fridge we could bring albeit smaller and it would leave a gap down the side due to its smaller dimensions. They are moving to rented accommodation as i mentioned previously. Sounds like a pain in the arse to have to move a cooker/blinds/shutters into storage etc.

Anyway pay the money they ask or call their bluff that they will leave the stuff behind?

Charge them £1000 to remove their wardrobe

Thanks for the prompt replies. Wife wants the stuff so i will have to find the money.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Thanks for the prompt replies. Wife wants the stuff so i will have to find the money.

Add it to sale price?

Whatever you do just make sure that you have it agreed in writing.

poprock wrote:

What Elf said. If you want those things, pay for them because it’s a bargain. If you don’t want them, let them go. The sellers will absolutely not leave behind things you don’t pay for. They’ll bin them rather than give you them for free. Personally, I’d probably pay it for the blinds and shutters alone. Another option might be to say “I’ll take the blinds and shutters for £500 but I don’t want the appliances or wardrobe.”

I'd say it's more accurate that they'll leave nothing that you want that you haven't paid for and lots of stuff you don't want that you'll have to pay to remove.

Dinostar77 wrote:

hylian_elf wrote:

Dinostar77 wrote:

Thanks for the prompt replies. Wife wants the stuff so i will have to find the money.

Add it to sale price?

Agreed awhile ago and docs have all gone out. Would cost more for solicitors to change that i think. Rather add an addendum for additional fixtures and fittings which would cost less i think. I could be wrong.

Have you spoken to the solicitor about this? They’ll be able to tell you the options, banks can usually chuck and extra k on for stuff like that if it’s part and parcel of the deal. Unless you’ve exchanged contracts then it’s all still sortable.

Interestingly i asked if i could have a breakdown of the items valuation incase we decide to just pay for the cooker and blinds. Got told its £1000 for all of it. Gone back to estate agent and asked them to clarify whether its £1000 for everything or nothing at all. Its not much to ask how much they are valuing the out of warranty cooker, fridge and the blinds/shutters.

Removal company? For moving? We haven’t moved and won’t be for a long time.

We did it ourselves. My dad came up, we hired a van, did shuttles.

It was shit and took twice as long as predicted. If we hadn’t been lucky enough to have a full weekend overlap then we’d have been screwed.

I recommend getting a company.

The Daddy wrote:

We did it ourselves. My dad came up, we hired a van, did shuttles.

It was shit and took twice as long as predicted. If we hadn’t been lucky enough to have a full weekend overlap then we’d have been screwed.

I recommend getting a company.

Aye, I'd do that if I ever move again. Especially if you're in a chain. I could have strangled the silly cow who I bought this house from. Unorganised fool, left everything to the last minute, got stressed out and said she was going to call the police to kick us out to allow her more time. I said the house belongs to me now pet, give them a ring and they'll probably kick you out. And the house was fucking minging. Used cotton buds on the en suite window sill. Awful stuff all round.