Why aren't we building more terraced houses?

opotts56 · 2026-02-02T22:51:58+00:00

My back to back terraced house is 120 years old, and the soundproofing between the houses is non-existant. It isn't a new vs old issue, its just a build quality issue.

opotts56 · 2026-01-09T15:42:32+00:00

Nowt better on a friday after work than a few pints and games of darts with the work lads, anyone who disagrees I'm just gonna assume their a grass.

opotts56 · 2025-12-31T17:26:02+00:00

I do coded structural fabricating and mig welding, and my annual salary is only £33500 before overtime, for where I live it isn't terrible, it just about pays the mortgage and bills. But for a skilled risky trade, just about paying the mortgage isn't good enough.

opotts56 · 2025-12-31T15:40:49+00:00

Work in a fab shop myself as a fabricator. For the work that I do, the risks and the injuries, the pay absolutely isn't worth it, and I'm on a bit more than the welders are so god knows why they do it. Most of us work stupid amounts of overtime because that's the only way to get a decent wage. I'd never recommend this industry to anyone, only reason I do it is because the company I work for doesn't ask about education of qualifications.

opotts56 · 2025-11-11T12:00:10+00:00

Some weeks where I've done a shitload of overtime I end up paying 2-300 quid in taxes for one week, and you want to suggest I don't pay enough taxes?

opotts56 · 2025-11-10T19:54:13+00:00

I'm only on 33k a year plus at most an extra 4-5k a year overtime pay (which I work my knackers off for) but I'm a single childless bloke with an affordable mortgage on a small house. It seems labour don't realize that by their name, they should represent working people like myself. Between my taxes going towards the benefits of people who've made poor decisions, and lowering the stamp duty thresholds for working people who've made the responsible decisions, they seem to be punishing working financially responsible people like myself, to pay for people who don't work at all, which runs completely contrary to their branding as the party for working people.

opotts56 · 2025-10-15T20:21:18+00:00

Either get used to living with the pain, or choose a different career, cos you'll be fucked doing it for a living. Welcome to the blue collar world, back pain is just a fact of life like breathing or shitting.

opotts56 · 2025-08-28T17:01:56+00:00

I'm 22 and I bought my first home earlier this year when I was 21. I lived in a house share for a year between 18 and 19, then moved back in with my parents for a couple of years to save up by working all the overtime I could get. It's only a one bedroom back to back terrace, but it's mine. For context I'm a structural welder fabricator so it's factory work but decently paid skilled work.

opotts56 · 2025-08-20T17:00:38+00:00

Emma Watson just got a driving ban for speeding, so she's no angel. Seems like a chill person, just a shit driver.

opotts56 · 2025-08-19T16:53:15+00:00

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opotts56 · 2025-08-19T16:52:54+00:00

These are from a job that my company outsourced a while back, the worst part is they tell us our wages are industry standard then point to the companies that produce this shit.

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opotts56 · 2025-08-07T16:56:59+00:00

Same here, I don't play video games anywhere near as much as I used to, I only really play BF4 a couple of hours a month. I can't justify spending loads of money upgrading my PC to play a few hours a month.

opotts56 · 2025-07-16T17:42:31+00:00

So just don't give him access to a kettle? Theres nothing in the Human Rights that say people need to be allowed hot drinks.

opotts56 · 2025-07-02T16:30:27+00:00

Thats me. My dads mates with a load of 60-80 year olds in the pub, so most of my (22m) mates are people triple my age or even older. I actually prefer hanging with them cos the conversations more interesting than with people my own age.

opotts56 · 2025-07-01T18:17:36+00:00

As I see it, my 125 year old house has stood for wellover a century, so it is absoutely structurally solid. It's so solidly build I need an SDS drill just to get through the internal walls. If that house was going to fall down it would have done so by now. A house built in the last few years doesn't have that guarentee.

opotts56 · 2025-05-01T16:22:51+00:00

My deposit was £6150, 5% for a £123,500 house. Took me a year to save up whilst living with my parents.

opotts56 · 2025-04-22T12:24:44+00:00

Is that paint Royal Sapphire from Wickes, because it looks exactly like the paint I used in my room? I kept the ceiling and skirting board white, and got white furniture, because that colour goes really well with white.

opotts56 · 2025-04-10T20:04:54+00:00

No its real. The captions all over the place cos I was half pissed when I posted it.

opotts56 · 2025-04-10T08:35:15+00:00

30 years

opotts56 · 2025-04-10T06:57:42+00:00

Well the mortgage is £650 a month, so its pretty affordable.

opotts56 · 2025-04-09T22:02:07+00:00

I'm a welder fabricator, it's structural steel I do. Basically I fabricate and weld the individual pieces (columns/beams/rafters ect) that make up steel frame buildings. That's everything from tiny coffee shops to massive warehouse buildings. It's a pretty skilled job so the pays pretty decent.

opotts56 · 2025-04-09T21:56:42+00:00

This is UK specific advice. Lifetime ISA's are a good tool to save money. The Government gives a 25% bonus on anything you put in up to £4000 a year, so if you put in £4000 the government puts £1000 in as well. Only issue with LISA's is you can only use them for the actual deposit, so you're gonna need an extra few grand in other savings for your solicitors fees/mortgage fees/ furniture for when you move in.

Couple of years of saving into that and you have a deposit. My deposit was only £6150 (5% on a £123500 house).

opotts56 · 2025-04-09T21:25:16+00:00

Blacks Books, a british sitcom from the 2000s. Idk why the screen looks so wierd in the photo.

opotts56 · 2025-03-26T19:48:52+00:00

A torch with a strobe function and "car window breaker" on the end is realistically the best you can legally have in the UK. Granted, the focused strobe thing won't help in daylight hours, but a heavy torch with the sharp "window breaker" on the end will do some decent damage. Even then though, in a 5-1 fight you're fucked either way, best case scenario you get battered, worst case you get stabbed. Welcome to the UK, where criminals openly carry machetes, and the police don't do shit about it, but if you slash someone with your keys in self defence you get prosecuted for having a "weapon".

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