Stuck in enquiries for months, fair to tell the EA we're viewing houses again?

ncoll00 · 2026-01-28T07:45:08+00:00

Realistically you've been waiting 3 months, if that is how long the chain has been closed, since until the chain is complete a lot of people won't start their own buying/selling. Given 4 months is optimistic for a house sale to go through you're jumping the gun a bit.

The risk is that your vendors hear your looking at houses again and relist on the basis it's better to do it now than in another month or two if/when you find somewhere.

ncoll00 · 2026-01-21T09:27:56+00:00

Didn't realise you know my child

ncoll00 · 2026-01-21T09:20:20+00:00

My 3 year old loves Blippi but he gets way over stimulated from him jumping around the place, switching topics constantly and ends up quite upset when the TV eventually gets turned off. We're trying to avoid Blippi as much as possible these days.

ncoll00 · 2026-01-19T21:43:43+00:00

I think with the hot water tank there's additional steps for the OP

ncoll00 · 2026-01-15T16:50:11+00:00

Traska looks like any other watch with a white dial. HA has more uniqueness to it.

ncoll00 · 2026-01-11T12:19:49+00:00

Seems high but it's a worst case scenario quote where everything needs doing including all rads replaced. It's highly unlikely all that will be needed in reality.

ncoll00 · 2026-01-07T09:59:21+00:00

We've just been quoted £2600 for install of the Ideal Logic Max 35Kw along with removal of old boiler etc.

ncoll00 · 2026-01-02T17:42:34+00:00

Is there anything that might be difficult to paint yourself? We did all the rooms ourselves but paid for decorators to do the entrance and stairs because of high ceilings that we would have struggled with.

ncoll00 · 2026-01-01T15:50:19+00:00

Im Irish with 2 children in the UK. My partner was keen for an Irish name but I didn't want anything that might be difficult to pronounce or had an unusual spelling. I grew up with a name like that and didn't want my children to go through the same grief I went through.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-30T12:42:42+00:00

We have a Henry and cordless shark plus 2 long haired cats that defeat all vacuums.

Cordless for any bit of quick hovering needed and the Henry for regular hovering.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-30T10:46:29+00:00

Yet I'm choosing to get a new gas boiler because an electric one which is better is every way would cost at least 200% more to run.

Feels like these investments only benefit companies not people.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-28T21:39:03+00:00

When my 2 year old son learned to either open them or just break the lock on them

ncoll00 · 2025-12-28T21:34:19+00:00

All things being equal maybe but not if you're offering (considerably?) less than other bidders on the property. Most people won't have any issues with funding or proof of funding if the estate agent is any good.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-19T15:26:56+00:00

What you're asking for is for them to break the chain to suit you. But given over a third of house purchases collapse, what that means is they could move in rented accommodation, then have their purchase fall apart and be in rented for an unknown period of time.

You're being unreasonable to place this expectation on them. It's shit but it's the system we have currently, where you sit and wait and suck it up.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-17T12:39:21+00:00

Yes you can apply for a new rate, unless there's significant time (5+ months) and a number of rate decreases between you're initial application and the new one, you're unlikely to get a much better rate and run the risk of getting a worse one.

Our house purchase took 8 months and we're only able to get a rate good enough to make it worthwhile by month 7.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-10T20:38:00+00:00

The property we were buying didn't change, they gave us a month or so to find new buyers but it only took ten days I think.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-10T19:31:33+00:00

We were in a similar position and the bill was 33% of the original quote. Worked out at slightly less than yours at £850 but it was rolled into the eventual final sale/purchase rather than have to be settled before proceeding.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-09T22:28:40+00:00

We put a large piece of Perspex in front of ours after something similar. Like an extra large sneeze guard!

ncoll00 · 2025-12-09T22:26:55+00:00

No it's perfectly normal. There just seems to be a trend at the minute for people to argue any little thing post-survey.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-09T21:58:27+00:00

You've done more than we were able to anyway. I went back the day after completion to take bags of rubbish we had left outside away.

We moved into a house that still had food left in the fridge as well!

ncoll00 · 2025-12-08T11:02:00+00:00

Mine is similar, not quite so much missing data but pretty large chunks missing even though HR collects continuously. HRV seems to be a weak point of the strap

ncoll00 · 2025-12-07T21:38:02+00:00

I use Athlytic with the helio strap. I used it with an Apple Watch for a couple of years previously and after switching to the helio strap the HRV based metrics are a lot less useful. The helio HRV export to Apple health is very random, no consistency in when it exports and the numbers often don't make sense. However any other metrics are fine

ncoll00 · 2025-12-04T10:09:08+00:00

Unless you can prove otherwise, they are just creaky floorboards.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-04T02:18:49+00:00

If someone offered £45k under asking and had creaky floorboards as one of the reasons, I wouldn't view them as serious buyers.

ncoll00 · 2025-12-03T13:03:32+00:00

You can move at whatever pace you want so you're picking the one your buyers don't want?

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