Bought a house by a river... what could go wrong?
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After what felt like an eternity (well, we did have a sale fall through on exchange day, and this is the third house we have tried to buy!) I'm elated that we finally have exchanged on both our sale and onward purchase.
We move in on Friday 12th September. It is something we've wanted for quite some time, and I've finally come good for my better half.
The house needs some work, but looking forward to doing it. 3 Bed Semi Detached property that I believe was originally an old tanners cottage when first built back in 1780 something? I will get more details as they come to light and add to the thread.
Property is bordered by the a river, and whilst on paper that is terrifying, even when there were the floods in 2007, water didn't get into the house. Since then there has been a flood wall built, and significant work up and down stream on the river.
Key thing for us, was the ~1.6 acre plot, and two sizable outbuildings. One which is half workshop half home office, and the other which will be my wife and Daughters art studio.
Our plan is to try and 'live the good life'. Animals, growing own fruit and veg, and generally having a calm big open outdoor space for our children.
Oh, and I now co-own a bridge with the adjoined neighbour.
A few pics to get the thread going:
We move in on Friday 12th September. It is something we've wanted for quite some time, and I've finally come good for my better half.
The house needs some work, but looking forward to doing it. 3 Bed Semi Detached property that I believe was originally an old tanners cottage when first built back in 1780 something? I will get more details as they come to light and add to the thread.
Property is bordered by the a river, and whilst on paper that is terrifying, even when there were the floods in 2007, water didn't get into the house. Since then there has been a flood wall built, and significant work up and down stream on the river.
Key thing for us, was the ~1.6 acre plot, and two sizable outbuildings. One which is half workshop half home office, and the other which will be my wife and Daughters art studio.
Our plan is to try and 'live the good life'. Animals, growing own fruit and veg, and generally having a calm big open outdoor space for our children.
Oh, and I now co-own a bridge with the adjoined neighbour.
A few pics to get the thread going:
Edited by conanius on Thursday 4th September 18:03
Edited by conanius on Friday 5th September 19:49
conanius said:
After what felt like an eternity (well, we did have a sale fall through on exchange day, and this is the third house we have tried to buy!) I'm elated that we finally have exchanged on both our sale and onward purchase.
We move in on Friday 12th September. It is something we've wanted for quite some time, and I've finally come good for my better half.
The house needs some work, but looking forward to doing it. 3 Bed Semi Detached property that I believe was originally an old tanners cottage when first built back in 1780 something? I will get more details as they come to light and add to the thread.
Property is bordered by the River Frome, and whilst on paper that is terrifying, even when there were the floods in 2007 in Gloucestershire, water didn't get into the house. Since then there has been a flood wall built, and significant work up and down stream on the river.
Key thing for us, was the ~1.6 acre plot, and two sizable outbuildings. One which is half workshop half home office, and the other which will be my wife and Daughters art studio.
Our plan is to try and 'live the good life'. Animals, growing own fruit and veg, and generally having a calm big open outdoor space for our two children.
Oh, and I now co-own a bridge with the adjoined neighbour.
A few pics to get the thread going:
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Now thats living! Well done.We move in on Friday 12th September. It is something we've wanted for quite some time, and I've finally come good for my better half.
The house needs some work, but looking forward to doing it. 3 Bed Semi Detached property that I believe was originally an old tanners cottage when first built back in 1780 something? I will get more details as they come to light and add to the thread.
Property is bordered by the River Frome, and whilst on paper that is terrifying, even when there were the floods in 2007 in Gloucestershire, water didn't get into the house. Since then there has been a flood wall built, and significant work up and down stream on the river.
Key thing for us, was the ~1.6 acre plot, and two sizable outbuildings. One which is half workshop half home office, and the other which will be my wife and Daughters art studio.
Our plan is to try and 'live the good life'. Animals, growing own fruit and veg, and generally having a calm big open outdoor space for our two children.
Oh, and I now co-own a bridge with the adjoined neighbour.
A few pics to get the thread going:
{snip}
Edited by conanius on Thursday 4th September 18:03
"Bought a house by a river... what could go wrong?"
My in-laws did the same - like you, an area that had never flooded even in past events. Lovely place, garden, old dairy etc, right behind river flood defences and next to an active pump etc.
However, the day I got a panicked phone call to go help and found myself wading through the house in knee deep, sewage polluted water trying to rescue everything from cats & chickens, to passports and computers taught me that in our current changing climate s
t can indeed go very wrong and very fast.
Good luck, but can I suggest you plan for when it happens. My family had things like ALL the important documents such as birth certificates in a low drawer in a nice old writing desk - I would have stored them on first floor. They had huge amounts of stuff just not stored well, and certainly had not expected the inundation they got or how quick it happened.
My in-laws did the same - like you, an area that had never flooded even in past events. Lovely place, garden, old dairy etc, right behind river flood defences and next to an active pump etc.
However, the day I got a panicked phone call to go help and found myself wading through the house in knee deep, sewage polluted water trying to rescue everything from cats & chickens, to passports and computers taught me that in our current changing climate s
t can indeed go very wrong and very fast.Good luck, but can I suggest you plan for when it happens. My family had things like ALL the important documents such as birth certificates in a low drawer in a nice old writing desk - I would have stored them on first floor. They had huge amounts of stuff just not stored well, and certainly had not expected the inundation they got or how quick it happened.
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