Nosey Neighbour

Maybe she is having a hot tub installed in the garden?

Good idea!

I'm all agog keep watch and tell us the latest

My mind is boggling!,

Fitted wardrobes, maybe? Or a loft conversion?

Reminds me of my neighbour who phoned to ask why OHs carers were so early one morning ! I wondered why myself . Actually my new kitchen had to have cupboards moved and the lovely kitchen man said it was the first time he had to renovate a new kitchen ! Wish I had heard about your neighbour and could have had a retort for him

We have neighbours like that they even went to the extent of replastering the internal walls plus everything else you’ve mentioned.

Oh now there's a plumbers van!

I really must get a life

Perhaps she's having a wet room put in. Let us know. My mam has a similar neighbour. Moved into a lovely house which just needed redecorating. She's messed it about so much now that she's actually reduced the value of the property.

Haha! ? What a very odd neighbour you have eglantineI wonder why she didn’t simply move house.

It does make you wonder why some folk go to all the expense and upheaval of moving, when they perhaps should have had a house built to their specific requirements in the first place. But saying that, I await developments with bated breath. Eglantine, you're not nosey, just very interested.

I can't make out why she bought a brand new one with everything lickety spit.

There's a bit of banging going on now......

Happened in our road to a lesser degree. Neighbour had new flooring etc put in, sold house, new owner ripped out and replaced floor and lots else then sold up about 18 months later. What a waste of money! Don't think the value increased by that much. I don't think of myself as a nosey neighbour but you can't help seeing what's happening!

In our village, people buy the lovely expensive detached bungalow (£400,000 ish) and KNOCK it down!! - they then build a house on the plot (2 have 6 and 7 bedrooms), what I want to know is where do they get the money from?, and how much would they give me for my ? , offers accepted lol.

Bizarre

I live in an area largely favoured by older people. In the last few years seven of the houses in my immediate surroundings have changed ownership. As the houses are ripped apart, the amount of money spent by each new resident is phenomenal. It makes my renovations seem very modest indeed and sometimes I feel like I am a bit of a poor relation.

It's also chastening to see just how much stuff goes to landfill. No wonder we have a landfill crisis.

Off out now. More anon.....

Must we have an excuse to get 3 brawny men round???

I was going to order some with my birthday money.

New Central Heating system? Can’t wait for updates!

Our next door neighbours have been in their house for almost eight years now.
When they first moved in they had a new kitchen, bathroom and bedroom fitted, which would have been necessary as the previous resident was in her nineties, had bought the house from new in the late 1950s, and everything was original.
However, since then they have had the bathroom replaced twice, the kitchen three times, and they're now on their third lot of fitted bedroom furniture!
The reason why? The male half of the couple is the most bad tempered man on the face of the earth, and is constantly slamming doors, windows, drawers etc. He's broken the fitted wardrobe doors and drawers, slammed the toilet lid so hard he shattered the toilet itself (soft close lid needed?), broken the shower cubicle and the door, cracked the bath, broken the doors and drawers in the kitchen, damaged the worktops by putting hot pans down on them. They're now on their fourth front door, they've had two new back doors, almost all the windows have been replaced multiple times, as he's damaged them!
If they want to waste cash like that, quite honestly I don't care, but the noise never stops! There's not a week passes that there isn't some form of work happening there, the up-and-over garage door has been repaired three times and replaced twice, he's on his fourth garden shed as he bangs the doors so hard that eventually the whole thing collapses, and the glass in their greenhouse has been replaced numerous times due to him banging about in there!
He's an idiot!

New bathroom?

Let me summarise what's going on as gathered from Eglantine's posts so far. Three brawny lads, a jacuzzi, a plumber, a bit of banging...

I went to a reunion lunch with my old department and one of the ex teachers there was talking about his daughter in law who, with his son, bought a new house and proceeded to pull it to pieces and refit everything. He was bemused as to where they found the money to do it as she was a primary teacher and his son in marketing, not banking!

The second part of the story was that, in order to keep the pair local and not have them disappear up north with the new grandchild he has GIVEN them £100,000 to buy a house around the corner. He said he ordered her very sternly to leave the skirtings where they were and do things up as and when.

But still. A hundred grand.

Amazing how they can afford all the changes. I certainly cannot. Interesting though.