Cue
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Am I the only one who reads the EPC when looking for a place to rent/buy?
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Am I the only one who reads the EPC when looking for a place to rent/buy?
proactive
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Ah, your paying the Nicholsons premium for a better quality of certificate.£50 was first mentioned in all the various figures quoted by our administrators, but Nicholsons said £80 . Hoping all the other charges haven't escalated from original expected costs on the bill!
Or they could just be robbing you blind as is there wont.
Cue
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Saved me quite a few viewings when the estate agent conveniently didn’t show the electric heaters and single glazed windows though.
staffordjas
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staffordjas
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Hoping it turned out to be very energy efficient...we still have the central heating running to save any burst pipes during the winter ..
Gramaisc
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I look after an empty house which has a plug-in thermostat arranged to fire the heating in the winter months, if the house drops below 6°C - in the last six years it has only ever fired once, that was on a night in mid-December last year, when it was both cold and with little sunshine*. There have been no pipe bursts or any other cold-related issues. In January and February the exterior doors do swell slightly, but then the Spring weather sorts it all back out again.
I had another temporarily vacant house left with the wall thermostat set at 10°C over the Christmas period just gone, again with no untoward effects.
* During the daytime hours, before anybody points out the obvious flaw in that logic....
Cue
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We had a student landlady that insisted on us setting the heating to come on once a day for an hour to ensure the pipes didn’t freeze... not a thermostat or anything (we got one of those later) so if it did freeze at any point it’d freeze long before the heating came on as that house was about as thermally efficient as a carrier bag.
Most houses seem to really struggle to get to freezing though. They have to be left for a very, very long time.
In other news...
Brand new washer dryer has mucked up already. Thankfully we have cover for it so get to call KnowHow and wait two weeks for it to be fixed as per usual. After a 5 house wash and tumble dry the load was still soaking wet (beyond spin-dry wet) and we emptied 3 or 4 litres from the emergency drain pipe.
Fun! I hope tomorrow goes better than today given I’ve got a car charger being installed.
Most houses seem to really struggle to get to freezing though. They have to be left for a very, very long time.
In other news...
Brand new washer dryer has mucked up already. Thankfully we have cover for it so get to call KnowHow and wait two weeks for it to be fixed as per usual. After a 5 house wash and tumble dry the load was still soaking wet (beyond spin-dry wet) and we emptied 3 or 4 litres from the emergency drain pipe.
Fun! I hope tomorrow goes better than today given I’ve got a car charger being installed.
Gramaisc
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The student house that I 'looked after' had a burst when they went away for Christmas and turned the heating off. I was away in Ireland and got a call from the first one who returned asking me to explain where the stop tap was - I could hear the water pouring through the kitchen ceiling in the background, having made its way through the bathroom from the roof tank.
I once got a text from KnowHow telling me to make sure that I was in for my delivery. I had no idea what they there delivering, where they were delivering it, or even who they were. It took a few minutes on Google and a bit of thinking to realise what was going on, it was a new fridge for the above student house, organised by the owner. I initially thought it was some sort of scam, but I couldn't see what they were trying to do, except maybe to get me to be out for a period...
I once got a text from KnowHow telling me to make sure that I was in for my delivery. I had no idea what they there delivering, where they were delivering it, or even who they were. It took a few minutes on Google and a bit of thinking to realise what was going on, it was a new fridge for the above student house, organised by the owner. I initially thought it was some sort of scam, but I couldn't see what they were trying to do, except maybe to get me to be out for a period...
Cue
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“Scuse me mate, we’re a bit busy between 2 and 4pm so can’t rob you, could you not go out till after then please?”
Did they just pick up the phone number from the address? Seems like an interesting breach of information...
Gramaisc
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No, the owner (and purchaser of the fridge) gave it to them - fair enough - but their communication with me assumed that I knew what was happening, where it was happening and who they were - if they had identified themselves as Currys, then I would have guessed what was happening a lot sooner, but KnowHow just sounded like a made-up name to me.
If there had been two items in the system for different places, I would have been utterly unable to guess which one they were on about - it all just seemed ultra-vague....
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
It's also something of a misnomer.
Gramaisc
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I had exactly the opposite with a shower I bought for the same house - it was being delivered by DPD*, who kept me fully informed at all stages, and used the supplier's logo on their emails, so that I knew what they were talking about, in case I had multiple deliveries going on, as people often do...
* I think it was.
If the KnowHow thing had been an email, I would have just binned it - the fact that it was a text and I get little spam on the phone is all that raised doubts of it having actual relevance.
Cue
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Funnily enough KnowHow even cocked up our original delivery. We paid for installation and it said they’ll disconnect the existing appliance for us. Guess what? When they arrived they said they couldn’t do that, as it wasn’t on the work order.
Fortunately, they did it anyway out of kindness but they certainly weren’t meant to.
Fortunately, they did it anyway out of kindness but they certainly weren’t meant to.
Tilly
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Churchill the tv ad dog?
Apricot
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OMGA well as many visits in the 70's to The Place in Hanley, and The Placemate in Newcastle...... much earlier than that I lived where the carehome above is as well.
I was born in Groundslow hospital! I also remember my mum having to spend a week or two in there when I was little. So my dad had to cook. The two dishes I remember were sliced cold leftover potatoes smeared with butter, and mashed cooked apples. Incredibly, I really liked the potato thing, and continued making it occasionally for a while after I left home, then I decided that actually it was disgusting.
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