I would just like to say

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DanClarke said:
First house I had was a 3-Bedroomed Semi on the Lawrence Homes estate on dear old Canvey Island.
Cost us the princely sum of £9,995. I had a 100% mortgage guaranteed by my employer (IBM).
I think at the time my yearly salary was £2700-ish.
They are now selling for about £300k.
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Although you are the same age as me I have to assume you got on the housing ladder before me. First place a 2 up 2 down. end of terrace on Canford Heath. Originally built for the council but they never took them on. Single garage in a block. But our area has always been expensive. I was about 29 when we bought it for £23k, in about 1984 again on a 100% mortgage guaranteed by no one. We didn't get a semi until a year or two later. ;)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Although you are the same age as me I have to assume you got on the housing ladder before me. First place a 2 up 2 down. end of terrace on Canford Heath. Originally built for the council but they never took them on. Single garage in a block. But our area has always been expensive. I was about 29 when we bought it for £23k, in about 1984 again on a 100% mortgage guaranteed by no one. We didn't get a semi until a year or two later. ;)
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Yes, we bought that house in 1975 when we were 21 years of age.
We sold it in 1980 for £16,995 and bought a detached house (also on Canvey) for £30k.
Then it all went Pete Tong when I moved to Stroud in Glos. Missus didn't like it down there so we moved back to Essex. Couldn't afford much then as the prices down here had gone crazy. Had 5 houses in UK and 3 rentals in California. This one we are in now we bought as a probate sale for £90k (it was a wreck) in 1990; and the average price in this street is around 500k now so it has come good I suppose. :)
 
Hippo said:
Eye have fort about changing the wardrobe back panel fer 6mm mdf to givvit more stability. Eye wanted to put shelves in one of thems.
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Why not?
It was recommended that that MFI wardrobe was screwed to the wall to give it more stability. We didn't do it, it was so heavy it was OK.
So that is another idea.
The inner parts of the built in wardrobes that I have built, with shelves and drawers etc ARE screwed to the walls. As they have no back boards. All have sliding doors and two out of the three in this house have one mirrored door. As they are floor to ceiling all have one high shelf going the full width and obvs hanging rails of different heights to suit both of us. I bought the interior bits mostly as a kit but I think the shelves may have been bought as wood-look, melamine-faced type stuff from B&Q.
Good luck with it all.
(We have pine wardrobes in the two guest bedrooms in Frogland, one is a triple and another one on the top landing for linen. The two guest ones have drawers and shelves. The main bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe and fitting that out was fun!)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Although you are the same age as me I have to assume you got on the housing ladder before me. First place a 2 up 2 down. end of terrace on Canford Heath. Originally built for the council but they never took them on. Single garage in a block. But our area has always been expensive. I was about 29 when we bought it for £23k, in about 1984 again on a 100% mortgage guaranteed by no one. We didn't get a semi until a year or two later. ;)
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No wonder your ex was grumpy
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Why not?
It was recommended that that MFI wardrobe was screwed to the wall to give it more stability. We didn't do it, it was so heavy it was OK.
So that is another idea.
The inner parts of the built in wardrobes that I have built, with shelves and drawers etc ARE screwed to the walls. As they have no back boards. All have sliding doors and two out of the three in this house have one mirrored door. As they are floor to ceiling all have one high shelf going the full width and obvs hanging rails of different heights to suit both of us. I bought the interior bits mostly as a kit but I think the shelves may have been bought as wood-look, melamine-faced type stuff from B&Q.
Good luck with it all.
(We have pine wardrobes in the two guest bedrooms in Frogland, one is a triple and another one on the top landing for linen. The two guest ones have drawers and shelves. The main bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe and fitting that out was fun!)
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From looking at the pic's it seems to be built from 4 corner posts wiv thin timber between them. Eye is a bit put oft by some of the review comments so may buy 1 wardrobe and 1 chest o draws and see. If they is good eye will get 2 or 3 more of each. Eye could line the inside of the two sides wiv mdf to strengthen them fer shelfs.
 
Hippo said:
From looking at the pic's it seems to be built from 4 corner posts wiv thin timber between them. Eye is a bit put oft by some of the review comments so may buy 1 wardrobe and 1 chest o draws and see. If they is good eye will get 2 or 3 more of each. Eye could line the inside of the two sides wiv mdf to strengthen them fer shelfs.
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Have a look at ikea stuff…
 
Evening folks :) .

Thought I would say been a good weekend and just settling down to the F1.
We have had a test run of the fire, the kitten is watching the ghosts in the machine;).
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It works, back down to short sleeves again.

J
 
marjon said:
Evening folks :) .

Thought I would say been a good weekend and just settling down to the F1.
We have had a test run of the fire, the kitten is watching the ghosts in the machine;).
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It works, back down to short sleeves again.

J
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I used to have a tropical marine tank same as a fire flickering you watch them more than the Tv 🐟🐠🐡🐙
 
DanClarke said:
Yes, we bought that house in 1975 when we were 21 years of age.
We sold it in 1980 for £16,995 and bought a detached house (also on Canvey) for £30k.
Then it all went Pete Tong when I moved to Stroud in Glos. Missus didn't like it down there so we moved back to Essex. Couldn't afford much then as the prices down here had gone crazy. Had 5 houses in UK and 3 rentals in California. This one we are in now we bought as a probate sale for £90k (it was a wreck) in 1990; and the average price in this street is around 500k now so it has come good I suppose. :)
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Interesting!
I know the area around Stroud quite well. Funny to think that you once lived in what is now such a posh area, when I knew it it wasn't posh either. Can't remember who was the first person who moved to the Cotwolds or bought property there which set the ball rolling. Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen? The King ? Princess Anne?
Our house in Bath that we lived in when I was a kid is now worth about£1.25 mill, but when my parents bought it in 1963 they paid £3k.
Mad!
 
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WhiskyLassie said:
No wonder your ex was grumpy
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...then a 3 bed 3 recep 1928 place a coupla years later. 3 houses in 4 years. Not bad really.
She was bossy and a control freak, but not particularly grumpy. She got grumpy later on in her life,
If anything I was the grumpy one. The Humanities Faculty's nickname for us was "Beauty and the Beast" and I wasn't "Beauty", ;)🤣.
After we split up and I met W, I became so much the opposite, they had to change our handles. 🤣
And when she became Head of Faculty, her nicknames from all of my colleagues became unprintable on here! 🤣🤣🤣
DDDDDUUUUUUUHHHHHH!!!!!!:vb-doh::vb-doh::vb-doh:
You can read the above if you wish but it's shrunk as I no longer have a semi, haven't had one since 1988! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
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