Wondering how safe somewhere is?
I’m watching the planning meeting of my local council on youtube and they’re talking about a development and problems potentially with road accidents –
Which reminded me of this web site https://www.crashmap.co.uk/Search
It’s not cheery reading, but might be of interest to you if you’ve ever wondered how safe the roads are near you.
Not everywhere is lovely and quiet! Some places have anti-social behaviour problems.
There’s a government leaflet to help offer you advice on how to deal with this
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-anti-social-behaviour
One of the things they suggest is reporting via Crimestoppers.
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The Ring Stick Up Cam
The Ring Video Doorbell pro is available at amazon.
I know lots of people locally have had one of these installed. It has caught loads of people on camera checking car doors and acting suspiciously. These video clips have been shared on social media as well as been passed to the police to try to ID the people breaking into cars.
It’s such a simple idea. Answer the door when you’re not actually able to get to the front door. So when you’re in the garden you can see who has turned up at the front of the house and tell them to come round to the back! Or avoid people you don’t want to see by having a look before you answer the door!
The video quality seems very good from the sample clips I’ve seen on my local area on NextDoor.co.uk
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| Price | £89.00 | £179.00 | £179.00 | £229.00 |
| Best For | Homes with or without existing doorbell wiring. | Houses or flats: for doors with an existing peephole. | Homes with or without existing doorbell wiring. | Homes with existing doorbell wiring. |
| Video Resolution | 720p HD | 1080p HD | 1080p HD | 1080p HD |
| Power Source | Battery or Hardwired | Battery | Battery or Hardwired | Hardwired using included transformer |
| Field of View | 180° horizontal | 155° horizontal | 160° horizontal | 160° horizontal |
| Installation | Install it yourself with included accessories. | Install it yourself with included accessories. | Install it yourself with included accessories. | Install it yourself with included accessories, professional installation transformer recommended. |
| Operating Conditions | Weather resistant, temperature range -20°C to 50°C | Weather resistant. Temperature range: Indoors: 0°C to 40°C. Outdoors: -20.5°C to 48.5 °C | Weather resistant, temperature range -20°C to 50°C | Weather resistant, temperature range -25°C to 48°C |
| Dimensions | 12.65 x 6.17 x 2.21 cm | Outdoors: 9.73 cm x 4.70 x 1.93 cm Indoors: 12.2 x 5.74 x 2.95 cm | 12.83 x 6.35 x 2.74 cm | 11.43 x 4.67 x 2.03 cm |
| Wi-Fi Connectivity | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz |
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Tidying up your garden is important if you are trying to sell your house. The above links will take you to a wonderful gardening shop where they sell lots of tools and equipment to help you tidy your garden up. If you purchase through the link within so many days then I will receive a tiny amount of commission. This will help keep the site running and enable me to do more posts about lovely houses we’d all love to buy.
KERB APPEAL
Kerb appeal sounds so obvious when you say it, but you are so used to seeing the front of your home that you might miss something obvious.
One lady I knew was selling her home and had ruthlessly decluttered and made it lovely inside, with exposed floorboards and nicely decorated lounge room and dining area but she’d missed the outside front garden completely.
It had rusty railings along the front and was a bit wild looking. Her husband set to re-doing the railings and she weeded the front. It looked so much better after a weekend’s work! She got the estate agent to retake the front photo and the house got more viewings and quickly sold after that.
If you’d like some help and suggestions on how to improve your house’s kerb appeal then add a comment below.
https://www.planttracker.org.uk/ is a website where once you’ve registered you can report Japanese knotweed.
It’s easy to register on the site. You do need a photo of the knotweed you’re reporting too.
I’d recommend you report any you find near you as it will encourage councils to take action where it’s on their land and reduce it’s spread.
I know there’s some on the brook near me and I will go and take a photo of it in the next few days and then report it! I had taken a photo when I’d originally seen it but it’s not very good so I’ll have another go.
I suspect this is a fairly new feature, but I haven’t spent a lot of time recently looking at sold prices.
The colour code relates to price.
It’s a nice feature, which in some areas will perhaps really highlight cheap streets! House prices is in the top menu option on the rightmove site. You can use a specific postcode, or a more generic part postcode.
You can increase the radius, narrow down years sold in, and the type and tenure (freehold or leasehold)
Why do people look at sold prices? To give them an idea of what it might cost them on roads where a house might not be currently available, to find out what their neighbours paid for their house and for finding out the differences a road can make!
Of course there’s lots of reasons why houses sell at different prices. A beautifully presented house might go for a good bit more than a shabby one; houses with bigger outside space might also sell for more than others on the same street. It’s a guide not a guarantee! Some people think estate agent valuations are really a promise of what you’ll get. However the housing market is incredibly fickle and if credit dries up and prevents people borrowing houses then prices drop. If a house has Japanese knotweed near it then it’ll also perhaps sell for less if the buyers realise, or the mortgage company is aware.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/kirstie-and-phils-Ilove-it-or-list-it
I’ve watched a few of these episodes and they’re nice easy viewing. Can you believe it that they’re on series 4 of this show?
It sounds like it’s almost a game show but it’s not. Channel four describe it as: Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp go head to head as they battle it out to convince homeowners to either sell their home or refurbish it
It does give Kirstie a chance to give people a sledge hammer. I do like the way that houses are remodeled to give people a better idea of how to use their space and what knocking down a few walls and moving doors can do. When you live in a house you might have it so fixed in your mind that you can’t see – sometimes quite radical – solutions to how to use the space better.
As more people have children staying at home for longer, it’ll be more important to create spaces within homes for people to enjoy living space without getting on top of each other. The episode I watched recently – series 4 episode 10 – Royal Wooton Bassett revisit – deals with this problem and they transform a four doored lounge into a much more usable space. The couple end up moving to Wales though in the revisit bit of the program!
Versace 4 was created in 1992 initially as a textile collection, which soon became a complete home collection.
Fast forward to today and Versace Home takes the iconic Fashion House’s glamour and luxury into everyday living by presenting the new wallpaper collection.
This is an absolutely lovely range of papers. You could do a feature wall of it in your lounge or bedroom!
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