On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:56:45 UTC, Witchy
wrote:

We're currently in a house built in 1886, and the only thing I don't
like about it is the floors on the top floor all have a little too
much spring for my liking. Oh, and the whole building shakes when
trucks thunder past on the main road and hit the pothole convieniently
outside the front gate.

Sounds very similar to our 1903 house. Only ground and first floor, but
on a main road. Originally detached, but 'terraced' either side in the
1930s.

This one is definitely not a first time buyer's house unless you're
either very practical or have a lot of spare cash - when we bought it
it had dry rot, wet rot, weevil infestation, rising damp (in only 1
room!), no heating, no electric or lights on the top floor and
considerable water damage from an obvious constantly leaky roof
including grass growing above the bathroom ceiling!

Similar things here!

And we still bought it, purely because it had massive amounts of
character and space, and none of the damage was irrepairable over
time.

Exactly.

Finish renovating the dining room when it's not full of old computers.

Living room in our case! Old computers too....

Hope the ceiling doesn't come down!

Living room ceiling did that before Christmas.

Rewire ground floor so
everything isn't surface mounted.

Whole-house rewire nearly finished...!

Of course, not all Victorian houses have suffered this sort of
neglect, but if all of the above doesn't put you off go Victorian.
Apart from anything else this place is now worth 4 times what we paid
for it D My sister's isn't.

Same here. My sister-in-law has a habit of losing money on houses, but
this place too is worth about 4 x what we paid.

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