The one thing you regret not doing

[nod]

1 hour ago, Nickfromwales said:

If your boy has to sell the Cossy to make your bail money, give me first shout lol.

He’s seven cars now No problem buying 

Big problem parting with them 

[dnb]

26 minutes ago, nod said:

No problem buying 

Big problem parting with them 

I understand that one. I regret not buying a Cosworth when I had the chance in 2005. And the Ferrari in 2008. And the E-type in 2001. And the other TVR in 2007... (I can see a pattern here, but 4 should be enough for anyone)  Although the house build wouldn't be happening if I had bought any of them. I don't really regret much with the build except maybe I could have done more at the time to mitigate some of the covid and Brexit issues that are still being an ongoing background nuiscence problem for me. 

[SteamyTea]

I wish I had stayed in the West Indies.

Heating system, not needed.

A/C could probably be designed out.

Energy cheaper than water.

Coral reefs to swim over.

Sailing in warm weather.

Best Rijsttafel ever.

 

[cwr]

Not doing an airtight test before boarding out. We still got 0.92, but the only major leak we could find was into a service void that was by then fully boarded. 

[Pocster]

14 minutes ago, cwr said:

Not doing an airtight test before boarding out. We still got 0.92, but the only major leak we could find was into a service void that was by then fully boarded. 

Not had mine done yet . We’re living in it and it’s all boarded out 🙄🙄🙄

[jayc89]

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. Ours is/was a renovation which I started before joining this Forum. If a knew what I know now, I would have taken more time when the house was near enough back to brick in the early days to tackle the IWI and airtightness detail. Instead I'm now tackling each room one by one, which is a pain (detailing around floor joists etc).

 

We also made assumptions as to how we would use certain rooms that turned out not to be true. So we ended up with the new boiler in the middle of what's now the office wall, the new water mains coming into the same room, as it was originally going to be a utility room. Switches and sockets not in the correct position etc. Whilst it probably wasn't possible given the other challenges we had (like ripping up the ground floor and replacing it with a new slab), we likely wouldn't have made the same assumptions if we had lived in the house first for a period of time. 

 

By far my biggest regret is not addressing "AIM" from the get go. We had such a good opportunity to get it spot on. 

[SimonD]

My biggest regret is not completely demolishing the bungalow we started off with, particularly when we realised the architect's designs could not be done without almost completely demolishing the thing anyway, even though the agreement was to just to remove the roof, lift and put a 1st floor on! I had that moment walking around the pile thinking sensibly and got disuaded.... it still irks me to this day.

 

The second one is that instead of simply doing ground floor insulated suspended timber floors I should have filled the whole lot with eps beads and been done with it.

 

I could go on....

[Onoff]

On 16/02/2023 at 17:24, pocster said:

I genuinely wish I had dug down 2 stories underground.

 

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81220971

[Nickfromwales]

2 hours ago, Onoff said:

 

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81220971

Who wants to ( can ) climb 2 flights of stairs after that?

[Marvin]

7 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Who wants to ( can ) climb 2 flights of stairs after that?

Yes just the décor would shock me!

[Marvin]

I think this may have gone off topic.

[markc]

2 minutes ago, Marvin said:

I think this may have gone off topic.

I can’t believe a BH thread would go off topic 

[SteamyTea]

5 minutes ago, Marvin said:

I think this may have gone off topic.

 

2 minutes ago, markc said:

I can’t believe a BH thread would go off topic 

 

I have a theory that the faster it goes off topic, the less interested people are.

[markc]

5 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

 

 

I have a theory that the faster it goes off topic, the less interested people are.

Now there’s a conversation stopper 😆 next person to comment appears uninterested.

[SteamyTea]

1 minute ago, markc said:

Now there’s a conversation stopper 😆 next person to comment appears uninterested.

You win, or is it comes second as I have commented.

[Pocster]

As per usual my innocent thread gets destroyed. Expecting mods to intervene soon … 🥲