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I was wondering if I have the most extended house in ED? I have: full loft conversion with ensuite; dug out/tanked cellar that you can fully stand up in and a toilet there with a macerator (can still get blocked with logs though); bay windows extended; kitchen extended into garden with massive bi-fold sliding doors; passageway/side-return extended into; outside wooden building with heating and gym equipment/office; original stainedglass restored on front door and transom window; and neighbours' gardens annexed. Plus I can park all our cars in the front garden.
Bob, is this a facetious thread? If not it is probably the most wonky thread I've ever seen on the forum. And the bar is pretty high. I'm sure others can express that more eloquently. I can of course quote other places with pretty bad over- development. And I am sure those struggling to buy or rent, particularly the young, will find this thread perverse.

Bob Buzzard Wrote:

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> I was wondering if I have the most extended house

> in ED? I have: full loft conversion with ensuite;

> dug out/tanked cellar that you can fully stand up

> in and a toilet there with a macerator (can still

> get blocked with logs though); bay windows

> extended; kitchen extended into garden with

> massive bi-fold sliding doors;

> passageway/side-return extended into; outside

> wooden building with heating and gym

> equipment/office; original stainedglass restored

> on front door and transom window; and neighbours'

> gardens annexed. Plus I can park all our cars in

> the front garden.


It's an SE22 wet dream. And now probably worth enough to move back to Clapham.

alice Wrote:

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> But is it double fronted.


Technically, yes it is double fronted as I bought the adjoining semi-detached house next door. I gave the elderly neighbours enough money to move to Nunhead, and then put in a doorway in the hallway between the two house, so now it's like one house.

Bob Buzzard Wrote:

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> alice Wrote:

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> > But is it double fronted.

>

> Technically, yes it is double fronted as I bought

> the adjoining semi-detached house next door. I

> gave the elderly neighbours enough money to move

> to Nunhead, and then put in a doorway in the

> hallway between the two house, so now it's like

> one house.


Nunhead? Or Nunhead Village?

TheCat Wrote:

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> Bob Buzzard Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > alice Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > But is it double fronted.

> >

> > Technically, yes it is double fronted as I

> bought

> > the adjoining semi-detached house next door. I

> > gave the elderly neighbours enough money to

> move

> > to Nunhead, and then put in a doorway in the

> > hallway between the two house, so now it's like

> > one house.

>

> Nunhead? Or Nunhead Village?


I think they moved to one of those small semi-detached houses on Barforth Road or Carden Road in Nunhead.

We dug below the cellar and have a pool. We also extended into the neighbour's garden but she hasn't noticed, being old and vulnerable.

So I think we are more ED than you Bob.

Want to pop round for afternoon tea? We get it delivered....

Jules-and-Boo Wrote:

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> We dug below the cellar and have a pool. We also

> extended into the neighbour's garden but she

> hasn't noticed, being old and vulnerable.

> So I think we are more ED than you Bob.

> Want to pop round for afternoon tea? We get it

> delivered....


Thanks for the invite, but can we mix with the new social distancing/group rules announced today?

Bob Buzzard Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

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> > The Mrs must know the builders really well now

> > Bob! What's next?

>

>

> That's the thing - I can't think of what to do

> next.


Helicopter pad so Mrs Bob can get express help from the flying builder when you get woodworm in your joist or a sagging member that keeps your extension up ?

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I do have a tunnel from my coal cellar to the EDT.

> I think that trumps anything Bob may boast about.


Mmm - well I do have my original coal chute / hatch into the cellar restored, which is inlaid on my ORIGINAL refurbished Victorian garden path.

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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I do have a tunnel from my coal cellar to the EDT.

> I think that trumps anything Bob may boast about.


A tunnel goes two ways. At 10:00PM you may find your house is busy.

I had a house in Nottingham once with a cellar that was bigger than the footprint of the house - perhaps it went into some old mine workings. I explored it a little and it went from hard flooring to earth. I felt a little like Steve Blackshall.


It probably went into the cellar of the house behind but I was freaked out so blocked it up after the hard flooring with breeze blocks.

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