weeksy wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 7:36 am
Docca wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 7:29 am
I like the last one you posted and the road wouldn’t put me off. Second was the one you liked.
Red flags all over the place for the rest. Some cosmetic ( archways?!) and I can’t do washing machine / tumble dryer in the kitchen ever.
Working out the maximum number of bedrooms you actually need would be helpful and make a difference. Our eldest at uni and we’ve just put a Murphy bed in the study for when he comes back in the holidays.
The road was sufficient that when we stood outside it was a look between us that said Hmmmmm. In truth the rest of the property was spot on, couldn't fault it... but the location was just a bit too noisy that it'd be an issue.
It may be something you'd tune out after a while, but it was enough of a concern to write it off currently.
The one i like in Weston under Penyard isn't perfect either in some ways, with a small office/snug downstairs having very little purpose in the real-world. But maybe you could get that wall taken out and increase the living area accordingly. It's described as a study in the plans, but i'm not sure Mrs Weeksy would use that and may use a bedroom instead for it.. So it's almost dead space. The lack of utility room was a concern on that for her, but there's space on the side of the house or even in the garage to facilitate that arguably. But i don't think she'll get past the location side of things.
As i say, for me personally, the location bothers me 0%. But i can see why it would.
How much actual traffic is on the road? Where I've moved to is pretty close to the main road through the valley, so Saturdays in the winter are going ot be a total nightmare - but I'm only ever going to be working or skiing (or leaving the house before the grockles get started and off to play motos somewhere else!!) on a Saturday, so it's really not an issue.
However, a couple of people have said to me that they couldn't live here for the noise - for me, I can hear the odd vehicle very very occasionally from inside (but the noise from my landlords' apartment upstairs is more annoying - and there's a factory across the road so there's often machine/truck/forklift noise as they shift windows and doors around!!).
Outside, ok, I can hear vehicles but it's not that loud and so it's not an issue for me - flip side is that I moved here from resort, even in the inter season there were trucks going past every day and in each season the noise was much worse that I appreciated at the time; the bin lorries at around 4 or 5 am most mornings in the seasons and a couple of times a week the rest of the year were the worst but I'd got used to it, so here I suppose the little noise from the road is minimal to me!!
Equally - if you both weren't happy when in the garden the first time maybe it's not something you can get used to
Shame if the house is great but understandable, you don't want to end up somewhere that annoys you when you're outside!!
Shame MrsW doesn't like the location of the other one but I get that some people don't want to be too far removed from 'civilisation' (personally, being removed from civilisation is a bonus for me!!
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