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My niece and husband has just bought an ancient thatched cottage that needs the roof doing apparently - not exactly a DIY job is it!
It`s a proper skill and the impression I got is that the thatchers couldn`t contemplate any other type of work.
A whole roof is a big expense , mainly labour costs so worth getting the best reed and having it last longer. I suggest they talk to insurance companies to get advice on a few things prior to doing the work, spark arrestors on chimneys, whether to use mesh to cover the whole thatch or just the ridge, fire extinguishers etc.
Don`t use a thatcher who can start next week either, good ones are booked up many months in advance, years in some cases. Do ask to see examples of their work and bear in mind it is usually at least several weeks work so it pays to engage someone who you are not going to want to bash with a sledgehammer from day 1.
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By coincidence my old house is now up for sale again :-
Check out this 3 bedroom house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom house for sale in Bedford Road, Barton Le Clay, MK45 4JU, MK45 for £635,000. Marketed by Indigo Residential, Ampthill
The couple who bought it from me have certainly tarted it up considerably, a Harley owner and his wife as you can tell.
The thatch is as I left it and wearing well. As I said the main thatch is now about 30 years old and the ridge about 10.
By coincidence my old house is now up for sale again :-
Check out this 3 bedroom house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom house for sale in Bedford Road, Barton Le Clay, MK45 4JU, MK45 for £635,000. Marketed by Indigo Residential, Ampthillwww.rightmove.co.uk
The couple who bought it from me have certainly tarted it up considerably, a Harley owner and his wife as you can tell.
The thatch is as I left it and wearing well. As I said the main thatch is now about 30 years old and the ridge about 10.
Very nice!
Nice parquet floor aswell
That would explain the outrageous asking price, I assume they are leaving the telly and sofa for that price
If I were you I`d go in with your standard offer for the house with everything included Larry, got to be in with a shout at that level.That would explain the outrageous asking price, I assume they are leaving the telly and sofa for that price
My bikes and sofas alone are worth that
This afternoon I'm sitting in the lounge with both sets of French windows open and the fountain playing on the patio thus a cool air and the sound of waterfalls.
Time for a Magnum methinks.
Time for a Magnum methinks.
Very posh - AC will be jealous that you've done better than him - he only owns 1/20th of an acre mind
And a Faux Street Lamp.....
The BBC have just had the Chief Scientific Officer on giving advice on how not to die in the warm weather.
They didn't have him on in winter when Starmer withdrew the heating allowance from the elderly...
They followed that with a Climate Extremist blaming man made CO2 levels
Idiots
They didn't have him on in winter when Starmer withdrew the heating allowance from the elderly...
They followed that with a Climate Extremist blaming man made CO2 levels
Idiots
But trees need co2 and we are banning that arnt we?The BBC have now just shown a thermometer in the direct sunlight in the botanical gardens in Oxford
The man they interviewed from there says 'do your gardening at night'
It's not like he came across as knowing what he was lying about.....
Shetland Islands temperatures expected to soar to 15 degrees today. Multiple deaths expected.
It's been warmer, certainly was memorable in 1995Shetland Islands temperatures expected to soar to 15 degrees today. Multiple deaths expected.
That`s soooo last century .
1976 was exceptional as it stayed hot and dry for nearly 2 whole months . This little spell will be hotter but short lived.
I'm working on a barn conversion at the moment. It's hundreds of years old and the walls are solid stone over two feet thick. In some places, three feet. The owners have been forced to spend £10,000 on PIR insulation and £3000 on timber building mega-insulated timber frame stud walls inside every external wall and against all ceilings. They've even been told they have to surface mount all their plumbing as it could freeze if fitted against the original exterior stonework behind the insulation.
It's utter bollocks. My house has solid stone walls two feet thick that are uninsulated. My pipes don't freeze in winter and my heating stays on 16 degrees. In winter with the log burner ticking over the boiler on clicks only occasionally and in the past 12 months I've only spent £600 on gas. And in the current "heat wave" (27 degrees here today - a perfect summer's day) my house is as cool as a cave inside.
I had a brick built house from 1910 once, never felt cold even with draughts under external doors, 1970's brick built house went baltic overnight
current house is 2019 and hay fever seems to be a nightmare 
funny that
1910 house solid 13" walls I would assume. They generally used soft clay bricks for the internal leaf because they were cheaper than the dense bricks used for exterior face work and they were a larger gauge so you needed fewer of them. Soft clay is naturally insulative, as is lime putty mortar.I had a brick built house from 1910 once, never felt cold even with draughts under external doors, 1970's brick built house went baltic overnight
1970's house, uninsulated cavity walls - cold and draughty. And if semi-detached you'll hear your neighbour fart through the walls.
2019 house, a hermetically sealed, over-insulated box with poor ventilation where allergens thrive.
Yeah 1910 house was all lime mortar and semi-fancy brickwork - flemish
I was concerned about heating it after the 1970s house (it was a good bit bigger) but wasn't an issue at all. Both in Norfolk so same climate to deal with