Bathroom

Well the inspector has been round and had a chat with Dad. Nothing too scary - and it helps that the manhole is on our property so away we go.

I am off to the shops now to pick some tiles. As the room is so tiny the sink will need to a small cloakroom variety and I am going for white slight-gloss tiles to add a feeling of space. the floor tiles are also going to be white but to avoid the room looking like an operating room I have got some mosaic tiles to go horizontally around the room. I also picked up a chrome heated towel rail that was going cheap at Focus so I will need chrome fittings. It is going to look great!

Hopefully we can also save the shower which is servicable and only needs a good clean. That will free up money to spend on the bi-fold door making the bathroom feel more spacious.

This is a small room but a vital one as it is always one that I look closely at when I buy! It's all about the kitchen and bathroom baby!!!

Bathroom

Well we are taking at look at the bathroom this weekend. These people lived in such a state I couldnt believe it. There is a toilet but it is in the wooden shed which stands at the end of the kitchen, and is accessible through a hole cust in the kitchen wall! There is a tiny outside window that is broken, and there is no door between the toilet and the kitchen - erm.. very hygenic!!! And the toilet itself is unspeakable - that is going straight in the skip!

There is a rudiementary bathroom upstairs - in that there is a partition down the middle of the 3rd bedroom with a bath in it (not fixed to the wall or with correct pipework). The bath is also filthy, but it is a whirlpool spa bath so worth saving after a really really REALLY good clean!

We did find a bathroom sink in a box under the stairs, but it is too big so a shopping trip is in order (my favourite part!).

The first job is to get the Building Inspector round to look at what we need to do to get the waterworks to standard and then we can make a start in giving the new owners a new bathroom!

Credit Crunch

This is starting to get a bit scary now. The first I heard about the credit crunch was when I was completing my mortgage back in January and there was talk of my bank being overwhelmed with mortgage applications as some offers where being withdrawn (and Northern Rock were spirralling out of control). This did not worry me unduely at the time, except that it held up my purchase. A bank making some really bad choices surely wouldnt mess things up too much!? Now this looks like things are going to change radically in the near future. Mortgages are being withdrawn and banks seem to be less inclined to lend. As I am appealing to first time buyers I hope that this will not have too detrimental affect on the price I hope to get.