u/Grgsz

I’ve offered on a house that has the potential to be a dream home (after a lot of expensive, time consuming, and intrusive work). I overpaid a little (I paid 5% more than almost the same house sold for last year in the development, and it was sold after being marketed for 2 years). it’s a probate property.

since then however survey has revealed a lot of issues, high subsidence risk, DPC bridged, air bricks covered (patio needs lowering), dual boiler setup one of which is vented (15 years old, on last leg), walls full of holes because of accessibility, and some quite serious cowboy jobs around the house. it needs a full reskimming potentially plasterboards replacing. it’s 50 years old, wiring condition is unknown (executors don’t know much about the house), roof original. it needs 30-50k spending even if diy.

since february in the area prices have been asolutely hammered, the ratio is 2:2:1 of properties reduced, added, and sold which is a heavy buyers market, and previously watched properties fallen down to prices it’s hard to ignore even though they don’t have the same potential as this one.

how do I go about this? morals aside, money is money, they would have asked me to increase my offer too if someone came with a bigger offer. there are tens of thousands of differences here for which I have to save years, and if the market is leaning to my direction, I would be a fool not to take the opportunity. should I explain them all the above, so try to explain the logic behind it, or the estate agent knows, so I just give them the new number?

we are at the stage where everything is pretty much ready, solicitors just clarifying enquiries between themselves, exchange would be this month I assume.

It may be only me, but since 0.4 handling is very unpredictable on gravel with rwd. I’m really disappointed because every time I see “Downloading content” when starting the game, I’m afraid it will be completely different maybe the worse way (I know, this is what buying beta means), and this time it was the case. any way to revert back to 0.3?

The house I’m planning to buy has the following setup:

Cold water tank and header tank in loft

Hot water tank in first floor

Boiler 1 (old, connected to hot water tank), and boiler 2 (newer combi boiler for extension) on the ground floor

I don’t know much about plumbing, I just want to avoid a rabbit hole and money pit.

Based on my research the reason for cold water tank in the loft is because the pressure is low/uneven, and possibly because mains pipe is too narrow, and likely most parts of the original house gets its water from the tank, not mains. To upgrade to mains, the whole network needs to change?

In which case I’d rather keep it as is because it sounds like it would cost a fortune, but would this gravity based pressure work with a pressurised hot water tank for heat pump?

I also want to route the second (combi) boiler pipes to the place of the first (old, hot water tank) boiler, so they originate from a single source, and put the heat pump nearby, ideally put the hot water tank for it on the first floor in place of the old hot water tank so less disruption is needed (if possible/ideal).

Does this seem like an expensive and complicated job for heat pump installation? What would it involve? Can the gravity based cold water tank stay or incompatible?

I’m buying a house that has two boilers, and I want to get rid of both in favour of a heat pump, and the deciding factor whether I proceed with the purchase depends on how much it would cost to move the circuit of the second radiator (currently only serving the extension) to the original one (where I would put the water tank ideally).

Not wildly far from each other, only about 15m along walls if chased, or 7.2m if running on the ceiling behind a false ceiling/coving. But where the second boiler is, I want that room to be completely removed into open space, so the pipework may be a bit complex.

The house has a EPC C, so should be suitable. My problem is a survey from a heating engineer cost hundreds, and I already spent more than a thousand on various surveys so this really starts to burn my wallet just to figure out how much spending it needs.

If anyone had a similar job done, how much did it cost, or if you’re a professional, how easy of a job is it, and how much would it bump heat pump installation costs from octopus for example?