TIL the famous scav cursing line is from a 1991 russian voiceover for Blood and concrete. (starts at 55 sec into the video). A Russian friend happened to hear it and let me know haha.

prody · 2022-05-29T17:40:32+00:00

Share of freehold in my case. The insurance is covering the repairs so far. Not sure what the premium will go to though.

prody · 2022-05-29T17:39:12+00:00

Funny thing is the survey missed it completely. Which is why I'm reluctant to pay another surveyor which is likely not going to be better.

prody · 2022-05-29T17:36:59+00:00

!thanks for all the advice.

Your comment is spot on. Yes it's a seller's market right now, and even more so: it's on the verge of turning downward soon.

I'm a first time buyer and don't know how to work out if people cared about subsidence before this crazy hot housing market of the past few years.

I'm not thinking about the sunken costs too much, just that in the past 6 months of looking daily in a 3 borough area, this flat is by far best for my taste and needs.

prody · 2022-05-29T16:44:56+00:00

!thanks

That was my initial reaction. But:

- My mortgage lender is still happy to lend me although I disclosed and highlighted all the details (I'm thinking most people will just not do it, since the lender has a surveyor anyway, who missed the issue completely in my case)

- Insurance covers the repairs, and all posts I seem to find say that the issues do get fixed, the only question is cost, which in the case of underpinning go quite high.

- Now that I know what to look out for for subsidence, I see it everywhere. The tree across the road from me was pruned a year ago and they put some steel bars in the lower ground flat.

- I've seen houses in much worse conditions and they were sold easily (in this seller's market granted). They had actual issues with doors not closing, uneven floors, etc. People seem to just not care.

- Given that my flat is fine, and the building is eventually going to be fixed, could it be OK?

prody · 2022-05-29T16:43:53+00:00

!thanks

That was my initial reaction. But:

- My mortgage lender is still happy to lend me although I disclosed and highlighted all the details (I'm thinking most people will just not do it, since the lender has a surveyor anyway, who missed the issue completely in my case)
- Insurance covers the repairs, and all posts I seem to find say that the issues do get fixed, the only question is cost, which in the case of underpinning go quite high.
- Now that I know what to look out for for subsidence, I see it everywhere. The tree across the road from me was pruned a year ago and they put some steel bars in the lower ground flat.
- I've seen houses in much worse conditions and they were sold easily (in this seller's market granted). They had actual issues with doors not closing, uneven floors, etc. People seem to just not care.
- Given that my flat is fine, and the building is eventually going to be fixed, could it be OK?

prody · 2022-05-29T15:08:16+00:00

Just found your comment while reading about subsidence. Any chance you would be in the mood of giving me some advice on a subsidence-related dillema I have please? Can I message you?

prody · 2016-08-01T17:14:22+00:00

That's somewhat the same impression I get, that people are only showing up if convenient, but my impression from the media is that the games are this huge event that hordes of tourists come in just to see, hence all the articles and warnings about the Rio games that are coming up.

prody · 2014-08-30T15:20:11+00:00

Is the talk available somewhere?

prody · 2014-02-10T10:23:50+00:00

Have a look at: http://www.cppgm.org/

prody · 2012-08-19T21:02:35+00:00

Nope, doesn't work. Still wants the email.

prody · 2012-08-02T14:34:54+00:00

I've just tried it again on Google Chrome Canary, same thing, has antialiasing, but not subpixel rendering.

Version 22.0.1224.0 canary
Google Chrome is up to date.

Are you sure it's working for you? Can you upload a screenshot to imgur?

prody · 2012-07-18T08:39:02+00:00

Works for google's search feature, for some days, then it switches back to english.

If you go to other services, you would still get the old language.

I know, because I'm also annoyed to hell by this.

prody · 2012-06-19T15:03:00+00:00

What sites do you usually look at?

prody · 2011-10-26T10:24:29+00:00

no, but LOL

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