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Previously on "My biggest fear for UK."
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crikey, 3600 quid for a kitchen, that's a lot of money must be a nice one
Milan.
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Anyone been to the coast lately? There's no evidence of even a 5 inch rise in the sea-level. Sorry, but I think we've all been had.
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Rising tides are not the only problem, the weight of all you migrants to the UK will cause the land mass to sink further and the UK will disappear completely by 2093.
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It sounds like you paid too much, I mean, 1400 for a kitchen, whatever were you thinking ?
Milan.
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Originally posted by milanbenes View PostDiver,
'floor timbers were all rotten and I've had to replace the lot.
Roof had asbestos tiles, having to reroof it.
Rewire it.
re-plumb it
Fit central heating
hack off walls damp proof and re-plaster
replace all the skirting boards
Replace kitchen
replace bathroom.
cost me nearly twenty grand so far and I haven't even decorated yet, let alone moved in ',
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you did _all that_ for twenty grand ?
Is it a dolls house ?
Milan.
Whole family is in the building business as well.
Full Central heating installation with Baxi duo-tec HE 33 boiler £2,500.
Full rewire £1,100
Floor £340 for weyroc flooring and joists, self fitted.
New Roof £2,800
New Ceilings £260
New skirting, Don't know yet (materials only anyway)
Plastering £200
Kitchen £1,400
Bathroom £330
Tiling £700
Lights and ceiling fans for whole house £280
Parquet flooring and Adhesive £440
Decorating, not finished so don't know.
Plumbing - in with the CH installation
All the rest is small stuff
Being a Reasonable Bricky, A good plasterer, an excellent carpenter and being owed a lot of favors, means that I can do the job for 1/2 the price that you lot can
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We live on the levels in WSM, in the newish developments round Worle... didn't have any problems in last Summer's deluge.
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Originally posted by ASB View PostMind you we live in the levels, so if you get wet over WSM way it's a fair bet we'll be rather wettert given we are about 30 feet lower.
My dad lives in rural Spain and recent heavy rains there brought down some of the Moorish dry stone walls that surround his property, due to historical significance the local council have spent 11,000 euros to get them put back exactly as they were, I would imagine our councils would be equally insistent… except for paying the bill.
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostHmm too expensive to build on but fit to graze donkeys? Up and down the country it was no coincidence that a majority of houses we saw flooded were new or fairly recent builds. I guess it is expensive to build on marshland but when you have nowhere else and rising property prices make it irresistible… sod em’.
Whilst the development round Locking is at risk from flood it is "only" at risk from "extreme flood". Hutton Moor and through to Uphill are at much greater risk - and there has been little development there in the last 20 or so years. However the area south of the "new" dual carrigeway has been freed up for certain industrial uses in the last 10 years. I guess it is inevitible that some of it will get released for residential development, and that will get wet sooner or later.
Mind you we live in the levels, so if you get wet over WSM way it's a fair bet we'll be rather wettert given we are about 30 feet lower.
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