Houses do need a lot of maintenance if they’re to stay upright and keep us safe and warm for many years.  There are the usual things like checking the guttering, soffits and fascias – these which of course are at…
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There’s a house up the way from me that is constantly being worked on.  I don’t know if the family own a building contractor company or what, but the house is already large.  It started off life as a five…
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There is a small pub in a village near me – they had a yard which was used as a car park but still had the stables and a small barn.  These have been used for a all sorts of…
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When you buy a property, unless it has quite a definite ddsign feature that you wanted when you looked around it, then most times it will be bulk standard everyday house or bungalow.  No one is ever going to rave…
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There are many types of property out there for sale and rental these days   As soon as something even slightly quirky or interesting comes up, there are loads of developers and privateers who want to get in there and convert…
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I have a pal who owns a property down on the south coast – it’s quite old in terms of it being in a town – built in 1830, it precedes the terraces of victorian mass housing but it’s not…
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Gosh this year has decided to blow out in style. You would never believe how many guttering and fence replacement vans I’ve seen buzzing around this rather well heeled estate.  Whereas just a few short years ago, you would have…
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I don’t often visit town centre residential properties – that’s something I realised recently when I did in fact have a chance to look over some apartments that now fill the space inside an old shoe factory.   Now that all…
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I have recently visited some truly gorgeous villages in this area – dripping with chocolate box cottages and pretty pubs and the odd even prettier shop.  When you look up at the frontages, near the thatched roof and down the…
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It’s been quite a while since I had the pleasure of wandering around a very old family home.  I do love that slightly musty smell as you open the unused and probably unloved bedrooms and the mothball aroma drifting from…
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