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If I was a fella I might but I'll stick to buying expensive handbags

Don't be too hasty - the court case / mediation may require you to return those ......

I don’t even think they are cheap! They’re expensive iirc.

This sentence applies to 90% of my purchases I think including the handbag I bought today .

+1. For something seemingly as specialist as this, and expensive, I would be letting someone else carry most of the risk.

We had anhydrite screed but we were told to leave it 60 days plus before tiling. Maybe that’s where the 8 weeks comes in? There were loads of other things to be getting on with so that wasn’t an issue TBH.

Your Mrs probably has a GSOH but just not when you're around , but no, I don't go skip diving or broken white goods collecting. There is enough sh1t here already without adding to it . Is your Mrs from Kemsing then? Wonder if I know her!

Excellent. I'm sure you can tear them off a strip .

The seller was pressuring them to exchange, they wouldn’t without getting the details agreed so they pulled out. Pity because it is a lovely house.

It’s a difficult one really. How do you prove that it’s been used as ‘garden’? It looks like a meadow but the parking area on the left has extended into the ‘meadow’. Plus the current owners have only owned it since 2011 so it gets complicated. The truth is that the council wants it looking exactly as it is today with trees and grass, not pigs or potatoes, and all my friend wanted to do was put a mower shed up and use it to exercise her dogs.

Shouldn’t start? Borders Council say that it is an offence to start work without a building warrant and then say they charge fees x 2 if work has started and fees x 3 if you apply for the completion certificate without a warrant although why someone would do that I’ve no idea. Of course you do run the risk of having to alter something retrospectively if you start work before the warrant is approved. I ran into that bureaucracy when trying to get the extension paperwork sorted that my hubby had built and flippantly said ‘just apply for the warrant later on’. Just what I needed tbh alongside everything else but there was no persuading him otherwise.

A friend of mine just pulled out of a house purchase due to an issue with the 3 acre ‘garden’. Sellers said it was garden, the searches showed that it was agricultural. She put in a request to see if at least some of it could be redefined as garden and it came back as a no, plus they could find no evidence of PP for the existing parking area being approved (that was apparently in the agricultural part too). Council didn’t want to spoil the village look apparently. So they could dig it up and grow potatoes, or keep pigs, but they can’t put up a shed to store the ride on mower. Funny old world.

How far do you have to move something to stay within the rules?

Lol. I always thought that was a very odd name to choose TBH. Sounds more like something akin to Accenture or Cognizant, and I bet it was a mail dominated decision

That just screams, they are much younger than you!

You could just ditch the house, live in the hut, and drag it round the field every 3 months I get why people want a shepherd’s hut, log cabin or whatever as a holiday home in a different location but what would you do with one adjacent to the house? AirBnB or something?

Maybe they just want to differentiate their power tools from the rest of the group? And if the strategic direction changes and they want to sell it off a separate brand name could make it easier to do so. People soon get used to the new name TBH. Confinity became PayPal and AuctionWeb became eBay but @SteamyTea Opel is a car, opal is a stone and used to be a sweet

I guess there are a bunch of things to be considered such as the 11 month occupancy clauses for holiday let’s that are a way of getting round building regs (I think!) etc. I know of people who use that type of property as their only home but have to move out for a month a year to comply with the regulations. They can’t afford to buy anything else. The current planning restrictions and ever more focus on an increasing set of building regs prevent much innovation that could help provide low cost housing. So the need for a wheelchair accessible WC in every new build for example no matter how small. I’m not talking about people living in hovels of course but trying to provide affordable housing against a backdrop of ever increasing building regs makes the reality affordable even less likely as time goes on without a step change in thinking.

Lol, that’s exactly what I thought it sounded like too

It’s in small print on the back currently. (Another drill I can barely lift let alone use with one hand lol)

They look great. I imagine they’d fall foul of various building regs, minimum floor space etc in the UK so there would no doubt have to things done to address those issues, but as a concept it’s great. Reminds me of something like a folding caravan or trailer tent lol.

Lol, sometimes it helps not to have any preconceptions about what to search for. As in no bloody clue This was easy though. @ProDave‘s plastic expansion tank was a bit more challenging lol.

If you look at the reviews for this item 2 of them mention this stapler so hopefully this helps with the size needed: https://www.amazon.co.uk/C-K-496004-10-5-Wide-Staples/dp/B005XB6XIO

Thought they were ripping you off

11.5k excl vat is 13.8k incl vat.