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Suggest, speak to: 1. The Modern House - we successfully used them as have friends. 2. Agents in areas that have larger amounts of former industrial building conversions who steer buyers looking for type of property v location.

Could be several things and varies by TV and soundbar. If you have a spare HDMI socket, try connecting to the soundbar to the other HDMI socket and see if that works. Some TVs have settings in the menu to set up soundbar, especially for use with external inputs. Hope this helps

There's Enterprise car hire in Sydenham. Suggest go online and compare prices as car hire prices vary similar to air fares, with prices varying on how and when you book and also pick up location.

To add, Ultimately the problems and remedial action go back to the landlord and the agents (Foxtons in this case) have to refer everything back to the landlord and get the landlord's consent to act, including instructing trades to undertake repairs. The landlord may be the underlying problem. Suggest use the above links and escalate, including sending written notices to both the agents and landlord direct. The landlord details should be stated in the tenancy agreement. For complaints / faults, make sure you have a written record including follow up in writing / email on all calls.

Get prices from several providers and check what's included in the price and beware estate agents recommended conveyancers often pay introducers commission to the agents and this is added to your costs. Tme is money and cheaper fixed price conveyancers limit the time / work accordingly and frequently take longer and quality suffers. Be very pro-active, complete all your documents promptly and regularly call and manage your conveyancer and the other sides conveyancer. Remember, the other side may be using a cheaper fixed price conveyancer and this will impact you. Dealt with many sales (probates, etc) in last few years and you do not need to use a conveyancer that is local to the property. Firms outside London can be significantly cheaper and great quality. Was recommended a superb old school firm in North Wales and used them for several conveyances around England & Wales until they retired and closed shop. Hope this helps

You'll get large thermal swings with south facing glass, even triple glazed and high efficiency glass. Spent some time in a grand designs listed property with modern high tech glass extension and still had huge thermal swing in the extension. Shutters and awnings that shade the windows are most effective. Temporary canvas sail type awnings are low cost and effective (will need replacing every few years). For upper floors internal cheese cloth style roller blinds are low cost and effective at reducing sun glare heat. For Velux, the black out blinds with the reflective layer significantly reduce heat, though they also stop the light. We had the external Velux motorised shutters at previous house and they made a huge difference to thermal gain and lose, but blocked the light. For fixed roof windows, try hanging an oversized internal white canvas shade. Weather permitting, open loft / upper floor Velux windows and lower window to use chimney effect air flow from ground to loft to help cool house. Hope this helps

Enterprise has a Sydenham branch and we've picked up from there. Prices vary substantially, depending on when and how you book, rental duration and where you pick up from. Suggest see Money Saving Expert and other sites for helpful advice.

Recommend Community Fibre, if you have their network in your area. Otherwise, neighbours recommend Vodafone fibre broadband which operates over BT network and also cheaper than Sky for new customers. If you have not done already, use the Money Saving Expert checker

We did L-shaped conversion and put the bathroom in the middle so could be shared by both front and rear bedrooms and strongly recommend this. We'd stayed in places with ensuite bathrooms in front bedroom and didn't want kids / guests having to walk through front bedroom from back bedroom. All of our loft rooms feel spacious and have lots of light. You can add more roof windows and adding a side window in addition to rear window on back bedroom makes a huge difference to the feel and light. Think how you'll use the rooms and where the furniture will go; and pay attention to where you'll have reduced headroom as this catches lots of people out and having to make mid-build changes. Suggest view your neighbours lofts and see what you like and what you don't. Hope this helps

From experience, it's the norm that the local authority reject appeals regardless of facts. Suggest you appeal and highlight that you followed the requirements by using the app to log the parking session and the failure of the app / network to register this is a technical issue beyond your control for which you can not be held responsible for and accordingly not penalised. Also that the traffic wardens records confirm you were parked for less than the free period so again should not be penalised. Do a search on web for similar appeals The 'fight back forum' website used to be very good for people sharing there appeals experience; and looks like this is no longer running but try https://www.ftla.uk I've appealed loads of Penalty Charge Notices for myself, friends and family and all been successful. In approx half of the appeals the local authority did not even respond and were won by default. Re 20p fee - check if you you have text message alert 'on' as these are generally charged for and if so turn it off to save text fee. Hope this helps For Clarity, you need to follow the process, so have to first appeal to the local authority that issued the PCN (sounds like you've done this). Then you can appeal to the London Tribunals and the local authority have to tell you this and tell you your reference number to submit this appeal. Also when you submit appeal - choose 'no contravention occurred'

If you don't use the car often then suggest disconnect the battery between use by undoing the earth (negative / minus sign) cable from the battery and the battery will then last longer between use. Remember, central locking, alarm, clock, etc won't work with battery disconnected and wit ours I have to lock the doors with central locking before disconnecting battery as only have key on one door (leave bonnet open before locking doors). Hope this helps