The only niggle we have is that the previous owners left *huge* amounts of furniture in the house beond what they said they'd leave (three piece suite, two single beds, a double bed, a wardrobe). They're coming over tonight to collect the mirror that they accidentally left behind, so I'm going to ask them if they wouldn't mind awfully taking all the rest with them. I could also bore you with the story of the punctured radiator that both we and the surveyor missed, that has been bodged up with putty and paint by the previous owners and rather urgently needs a plumber but that's just the inevitable result of houseowning, I guess.
House-warming? That'll probably be sometime after we've redecorated the living room, since the current colour scheme is a bit trying (put it like this - if we were to have a foodfight with ketchup and mustard, it wouldn't show on the living room walls...)
In which case, if you have cellars and outhouses and things, and haven't checked them, for god's sake do it now ... we were poised, ready to move into brisingamen/peake towers when I opened the cellar door, and promptly instructed the solicitor to instruct the owners to empty the crap out the cellar before we signed on the dotted line. It literally filled the whole cellar. During their 'renovations' (and bodging a punctured radiator with putty would have been the least of what they would have attempted), they'd hurled all the builder's rubbish/stuff into the cellar until it filled the whole place to the top of the stairs. It required a skip to get it all cleared out.
And even then they left us with an almost sitting tenant. Admittedly, they couldn't put her in a skip, but ...
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Glad it all went smoothly!
Date: 2005-02-01 11:13 am (UTC)When's the house warming!? *grins*
Re: Glad it all went smoothly!
Date: 2005-02-01 11:34 am (UTC)Mostly thanks to you, I should add.
The only niggle we have is that the previous owners left *huge* amounts of furniture in the house beond what they said they'd leave (three piece suite, two single beds, a double bed, a wardrobe). They're coming over tonight to collect the mirror that they accidentally left behind, so I'm going to ask them if they wouldn't mind awfully taking all the rest with them. I could also bore you with the story of the punctured radiator that both we and the surveyor missed, that has been bodged up with putty and paint by the previous owners and rather urgently needs a plumber but that's just the inevitable result of houseowning, I guess.
House-warming? That'll probably be sometime after we've redecorated the living room, since the current colour scheme is a bit trying (put it like this - if we were to have a foodfight with ketchup and mustard, it wouldn't show on the living room walls...)
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Date: 2005-02-01 11:42 am (UTC)And even then they left us with an almost sitting tenant. Admittedly, they couldn't put her in a skip, but ...
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Date: 2005-02-01 12:20 pm (UTC)I will be checking the sheds when I get home this evening. Oh yes.