Hi guys,
This is my first post on here so, Hi!
I'm sure this forum will certainly come in handy when we finally move in to a house (FTBers). I have not done much DIY but am pretty handy so quite looking forward to it.
So, I'm sure plenty of people ask this same question - Is this house worth buying?
We had our offer accepted on it a couple of weeks ago after a fairly horrible bidding war and the estate agents messing us about. The house is a 3 bed semi built in the 1930's
We have just had a PDF full of pics back from the structural survey we paid for over a week and half a go. That has also been an absolute nightmare and I can never get hold of the guy. We are still waiting for the written part of it.
For the brief time i did get to speak to him he said there are a fair few cracks in the house but he cant determine whether they are serious (maybe subsidence) or not, and i would have to ask the Estate Agents to pass on my questions to the Vendor. We have done that and are still waiting to hear back.
When we went to look at it the main concerns we had were the first floor landing floorboards tilted to one side leading to the front small bedroom and there was also some cracks in the render on the side of the house, the render looked fairly new.
The survey mentioned the floor but again, he couldn't say how long or why it was like that. And his concern was also the crack outside in the render as the render was quite new.
He also found quite a few cracks inside the house in some corners of the rooms, pretty much the front two rooms upstairs from what i can tell.
We knocked at the neighbours house which is the other side of ours (two semis detached) to see if they had any big cracks, subsidence or anything else similar and they hadn't noticed anything. They moved in a year ago. Also a very nice couple.
The house we are buying, they say has been pretty much empty for the year they have lived there except for the guy selling the house will pop back every now and again. I am assuming his last parent died a year ago and he has been trying to do it up and sell for a profit as the only two rooms that are decorated are extremely dated. The rest of the house is floor boards and plastered walls.
I would like to know your opinion on the cracks. We really love the house and are not planning on selling it, we will leave there till we die. There are quite a few pictures so thanks in advance for looking!
I look forward to your replies.
This is my first post on here so, Hi!
I'm sure this forum will certainly come in handy when we finally move in to a house (FTBers). I have not done much DIY but am pretty handy so quite looking forward to it.
So, I'm sure plenty of people ask this same question - Is this house worth buying?
We had our offer accepted on it a couple of weeks ago after a fairly horrible bidding war and the estate agents messing us about. The house is a 3 bed semi built in the 1930's
We have just had a PDF full of pics back from the structural survey we paid for over a week and half a go. That has also been an absolute nightmare and I can never get hold of the guy. We are still waiting for the written part of it.
For the brief time i did get to speak to him he said there are a fair few cracks in the house but he cant determine whether they are serious (maybe subsidence) or not, and i would have to ask the Estate Agents to pass on my questions to the Vendor. We have done that and are still waiting to hear back.
When we went to look at it the main concerns we had were the first floor landing floorboards tilted to one side leading to the front small bedroom and there was also some cracks in the render on the side of the house, the render looked fairly new.
The survey mentioned the floor but again, he couldn't say how long or why it was like that. And his concern was also the crack outside in the render as the render was quite new.
He also found quite a few cracks inside the house in some corners of the rooms, pretty much the front two rooms upstairs from what i can tell.
We knocked at the neighbours house which is the other side of ours (two semis detached) to see if they had any big cracks, subsidence or anything else similar and they hadn't noticed anything. They moved in a year ago. Also a very nice couple.
The house we are buying, they say has been pretty much empty for the year they have lived there except for the guy selling the house will pop back every now and again. I am assuming his last parent died a year ago and he has been trying to do it up and sell for a profit as the only two rooms that are decorated are extremely dated. The rest of the house is floor boards and plastered walls.
I would like to know your opinion on the cracks. We really love the house and are not planning on selling it, we will leave there till we die. There are quite a few pictures so thanks in advance for looking!
I look forward to your replies.