I'm all excited about a prospective new purchase, which I'm sure is something that happens to us all from time to time. Unfortunately it's not a new bike or computer or fancy toy or even a car that I'm excited about ... it's a house. I don't know what's happened to me - in the past my criteria for assessing a property in which I may live has been - does it have 4 walls, a roof and a garage? However Lisa and I went to see a place on Saturday and it absolutely fucking rocks. I think that one of the reasons I like it is that it's huge - 4 storeys, 6 double bedrooms, 1 single bedroom, 2 full size bathrooms, a shower room, 2 kitchens and a weird little triangular storage room. It also has a double garage with a first floor workshop area. Should be just about big enough for the 3 of us, plus the dog. Anyway, amazingly, I had an on-topic question to tag at the end of this - my main concern is that the garage is basically a converted barn and is about 80m from the house. Anybody know of a good remote alarm type package that would be easy to wire in, would preferably run off batteries (the garage doesn't have mains at the moment, but it would be getting installed) and would be good enough to keep the scrotes out whilst not giving me a 3am wake-up every time a mouse farts in the garage? -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
I can recommend the Response alarms, available from your local Homebase etc. Wireless, battery operated sensors, solar powered bell box. Had mine for must be 10 years now, no false alarms, & the bell box is still on it's original battery. All the usual door sensors/PIR's etc are available, as well as booster boxes (mains powered only afaik) to increase the range.
80m is a long way for a radio alarm system to be reliable. With my friends stables we placed an alarm in the building with one of those high power emergency spot lights that was pointed at his bedroom window. when the alarm went off it lit up his room. The best way is to try and run a wire from the garage to the house, but if you are going to do that then you might as well fit the power in at the same time
It's called "approaching middle aged". You'll be lusting over Fiat Multipla's next. 6 Double bedrooms! You could open a hotel or a brothel, have your own harem the possibilities are endless. Double garage with workshop sounds very nice.
The way it's laid out is that one of the kitchens and one of the bathrooms, plus two of the double bedrooms, are at the basement level (which has a courtyard and it's own front garden - there's a little bridge going over this garden to reach the main front door) and form a completely self-contained flat. So, if we wanted to, we could rent out the flat - of course that would leave us a bit short of space ... we'd have to make the single bedroom (which we've got ear-marked for a library) into the second study and make one of the double rooms a guest room. I haven't looked at the garage yet, that's on the next visit, but I think it's basically a converted barn. From the outside it certainly looked like it had plenty of space - I'm sure we've got 3 bedroom semi's on our estate that aren't as big -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
It is, although they don't seem to be able to count bedrooms. Trust me, I've been around it, and there are more than 5. http://tinyurl.com/32zbm -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
Are you sure the estate agent didn't take you round next door as well. They're sneaky bastards you know.
Well, as long as the scrote who tries to nick my bike is either seriously allergic to dog saliva or a postman, that will be fine then. Anybody else is going to get a few licks and a very sad, "Please feed me" look. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
Hmmm, that _would_ explain the corridor with the infinitely high ceiling. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
Yes, I think we'd all gladly pay that sort of money to have 350 miles between us and you. However, it appears that the difference in price between the house I'm looking at and a 6 bedroom place in London is upwards of a million quid, rather than 160 grand and, secondly, the house is in Ryton, not Prudhoe. I mean, good lord, that's not even in Northumberland. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
You're looking in the wrong part of london. My place was only slightly more than the one you're looking at (2 years ago, admittedly), and despite being in London, it's a fairly large 4 bedroom terrace. You don't actually *need* a 6 bedroom house though, do you?
There's a _right_ part of London? It's been a busy 2 years on the house market, though, hasn't it? My current house has more than doubled in value in that time. Yes ... 1. Bedroom for Lisa and I. 2. Bedroom for Emma. 3. Study for me. 4. Study for Lisa. 5. Guest room. 6. Play room for Emma. 7. Library. OK, the library may be a slight indulgence, but everything else is strictly must have -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
