Recent content by sawduststeve

Hi Drives. Just caught up on your ongoing endeavours and your front lawn looks perfect. Not easy work but definitely good work. Black railings always look the part, good choice, and the decking looks like a great space to be, very nice. There’s a ton of stuff on the tv right now, just the...

Crikey It’s 30/86* here already at 10.30. Dog is staying in the shade today. Pool is up and running and looking inviting. Not sure if this helps. Keep dry. Steve 🍻

Looks beautiful with an even better finish. Great work.

Hi Johnnie The factory I sold was smaller than this 🙄 Keep sending like its going out of fashion. Good work all round. Steve 🍻

No. We needed to be in the house in the correct neighbourhood to register the girl for the school. The loan allowed us to purchase the new house before the sale completed on the old house.

He certainly is, luckily he’d just sold a property and hadn’t decided where to put the cash. It was very fortunate indeed.

That all sounds very good, way better than here. I think a 10% deposit would concentrate many buyers minds and along with the 1-3 month completion it might make the solicitors take note also. No paperwork is done by the seller before hand, it’s all done and paid for by the buyer after the...

Thats when you call the tradies Ha, as is happens wifey is at floaty now getting on with the painting, I’m here at home not painting 👍

Hiya Drives You can now uncross your fingers and toes, we’re all done. It’s sold, as of 1pm today I am without a workshop. There’s a decent amount of cash in the account, just a shame I’ve got to give my brother half. Whilst I’ve done a fair amount of brickwork, dwarf walls and bricking...

Thank you sir. Put better than I could I know two people who have had the seller on the day of completion ask for more money, for whatever pathetic excuse, in one case is was £17k and the other because it was a very nice central London house they were stitched up for an extra £35k. So, to...

She sure don’t miss much, that’s for certain. Funnily enough, she’s told me that after decamping to Cornwall for the duration of the build, they like it so much there, they are probably going to sell the place as soon as it’s done and not come back to Essex Steve 🍻

Hi Geoff Once the contract is signed that is no going back, the problem lies with the 3-6mths it takes to get to that point. People do scattergun offers on many properties at once knowing they will drop out of all except one. My cousin used to work for the BBC as a lighting and sound...

Ha. Nope. The customer likes her windows low, we determine the size of most of the windows by measuring where she can see out when sitting in an arm chair. I kid you not. We also lowered a front one 2 courses. 🤣

Hi Fella Thanks for calling in. I think you mean The Gerkin ( named after a pickle) On a clear day I think I can see this and the Shard from the top of my road, standing on the cricket pitch, looking out over London Blimey the strip show sounds like something left over from Victorian...

A small update The week before last we finally fitted the last of the windows to the last ever job, and it was a first for me in 46 years. With the scaffolding in the way we have to take the window up the ladder on the right on to the first lift, then after removing the boards, we dropped the...