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Oct 10, 2023 21:45:44 GMT
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As an example with my house we own the path to the neighbours back gate, they don't know this but we do as its clearly marked on the land registry plan. How they didn't spot this I will never know but I suspect its because they just didn't look. If I was looking to buy their house as soon as I saw that I would pull out as someone else owning your access with you having no rights over it is a recipe for disaster in the future if you have a bad neighbour. You may find that in your neighbours deeds there will be a right of access given over the route marked xyz - it's not forced to be on your paperwork, especially if the property has been subdivided or subject to multiple changes. The "new" Titles held by the land registry don't always include all the information that can be found on the original deeds. Especially for fences, boundaries etc. I know our deeds have several covenants on them that aren't on the land registry information, such gems as not keeping poultry or running a piggery nor allowing the house to be used as a place of business - IMO this is a biggie with more and more people working from home - it's also quite a common one to find. I did download their deeds to check before we bought the house and there is nothing on there, its a fairly new estate (circa 2000) and so its probably just a discrepancy between what the legal people setup for the developer and what they actually built. |
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cortinaman
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A little side advice - get a good local conveyancing solicitor - one with an office you can go and visit! (don't use one of the cheap bucket shop on line conveyancers) a pal of mine ended up with no end of issues trying to sell their house because they used an on line conveyancer when they bought it and they messed up big time!
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Old Fords never die they just go sideways
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cjhillman
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Oct 11, 2023 22:50:28 GMT
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Again thanks for all the help on this guys! We're still going to look at this house this week as the location is great and we just want to know more. I went onto the gov website and paid to download the title register to see how long the lease might be. Looks like its about 850 years and it says Class of Title: Title absolute . I'm guessing its probably pretty sound as they're all houses that have been around for at least 100 years already. Not taking this lightly though just trying to do my research .
Still hunting for a decent house with a good garage. I have noticed that sometimes the garage isnt mentioned too as mentioned before.
Is it worth staying away from wooden garages? I was having a look before as they look nice but I guess you'd have to watch what you did around them haha
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Oct 12, 2023 16:49:43 GMT
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Just be sensible if working in a wooden garage, you can always line it with asbestos or fire resistant plasterboard after insulating it if you are concerned.
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Oct 20, 2023 18:48:19 GMT
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I've exclusively worked in wooden garages and they've been absolutely fine. Believe it or not it actually takes quite a lot to set solid wood on fire. If you've got a can of petrol that goes up, or an electrical fire then that'll do it, but you'd have to be trying really, really hard to do it with an angle grinder or a welder.
Oh, and I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but getting a house with a decent garage already there will save a lot of cost. They don't seem to add a great deal of value to a house, but a properly built 30m2 DIY garage will cost about £5.5k at least. That's with mixing the concrete yourself (but buying budget materials and free hardcore), well priced timber for the walls and roof, 2 brick courses before the damp proof (with free bricks from FaceAche), steel roof sheets, sterlingboard inner wall cladding (so you can screw stuff directly to it), and feather edge wall cladding with a breathable membrane.
Not including tools, labour or doors (haven't priced those up yet). Ready mix concrete in will increase the price, as will paying anyone to dig anything out or hiring machinery/buying tools.
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Oct 20, 2023 22:17:08 GMT
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Wooden garage are great, I have one at my mums which was 16x13' (original 16x8 but I extended it when I lived there).
Wood is much warmer than concrete and they suffer less with condensation.
I did loads of welding, grinding and painting in it and never had any issues with it. I actually insulated it with rockwool and lined it with hardboard and it was fairly easy and cheap to heat in winter.
Only problem I had was the metal roof did tend to suffer from condensation even though I insulated it.
The next garage I had was a concrete section and that suffered from terrible condensation and the constuction didn't lend itself to be insulated.
Now I have a brick built one with a tiled roof as part of the house and have lined it and insulated it and its great, probably the best of the bunch.
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Oct 20, 2023 22:43:00 GMT
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Here in New Zealand timber framed garages are the norm.
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cjhillman
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Oct 21, 2023 22:36:43 GMT
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Thanks again for the info guys. We just saw a house that had a massive garden. basically the width of the house/drive (had a carport at some point) so you can drive into the Garden.You could probably fit the house about 4 times in the garden, very odd... of course I was thinking of concrete base and then either temporary garages for now or something wooden If I could afford it somehow. I doubt it would be something I could go for straight away as the house needed work 😂
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Oct 21, 2023 23:31:57 GMT
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cjhillman
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Oct 22, 2023 10:20:39 GMT
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Just looking around ebay as I know I wouldnt be able to afford much for a while. Looks like I could probably find something I'd have to take down on ebay for not too much.  I guess it comes back to the concrete base though. Would be worth having the floor done to something bigger to future proof another build? I was thinking as its a free hold maybe I could get away with something nice like this (I know peaked roofs are a problem but just as an example) once I saved more pennies.  |
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Last Edit: Oct 22, 2023 10:21:27 GMT by cjhillman
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