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From: Catman on 24 Dec 2009 16:31 jgh wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:46:15 +0000, Pete Fisher wrote: >> We found a 3 bedroom dormer (conversion) bungalow ticking all those >> boxes except the cellar, just up the road. > > Should that happen again, the cellar item can be retrofitted: > > http://www.spiralcellars.co.uk/ > > > Why, yes, I do have one :-) > That is fantastic! -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
From: Champ on 24 Dec 2009 16:38 On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:35:37 +0000, italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote: >The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> > Already cleared this one with plod - I won't be charged for storage. >> >> Blimey. How did you work that one? Worth knowing, just in case, etc etc. > >'Will I be charged for storage?' > >'No, because it was stolen' Well, I was charged when I had to get my stolen Saab back when it was stolen >Don't ask me to explain, though. oh. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Champ on 24 Dec 2009 16:40 On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:48:34 +0000, italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote: >Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:50:06 +0000, ginge >> <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> wrote: >> >> >The real solution these days seems to get a house built from scratch. >> >My wish list includes detached, cellar, double garage with space for a >> >workshop, large kitchen, and a ground floor study/office, but I only >> >really want 2 or 3 bedrooms. nobody builds houses like that. >> >> That's because the ground floor would be twice the size of the 1st >> floor. > >I fail to see the problem with that. The building would be a very odd shape. Would you want to live in a pyramid ? -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: doetnietcomputeren on 24 Dec 2009 16:47 On 2009-12-24 22:26:06 +0100, italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) said: >>>>> But that means spending �100k on a house twice as big as I need (which >>>>> would involve morgages and stuff, which I don't want to do again). >>>> >>>> The real solution these days seems to get a house built from scratch. >>>> My wish list includes detached, cellar, >>> >>> I really don't understand why they don't do this with new builds. It >>> seems incredible to me that it is not a standard. >> >> Especially seeing as they're digging the hole anyway, right? So digging >> it a bit deeper and then fitting some pre-fabbed concrete walls >> couldn't be that much more expensive. > > We seem to build far too many houses within the extended floodplains of > rivers these days - so it's highly likely this can't be done as they'd > be digging into sodden ground. they seem to manage it okay over here (remember that a good deal of this country is below sea level). In fact, in the time I was stateside the town just up the road went and go itself an underground multistorey car park. -- Dnc
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 24 Dec 2009 16:50
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ginge <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> saying something like: >The real solution these days seems to get a house built from scratch. >My wish list includes detached, cellar, double garage with space for a >workshop, large kitchen, and a ground floor study/office, but I only >really want 2 or 3 bedrooms. nobody builds houses like that. I'm not bothering with a cellar, but all that above, yes. |