Have you used an online estate agent?
Emmeline Westin
8 years ago
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Comments (6)Online: I would never order fresh produce online. I get most of my food shopping from a farm shop, some is local grow in season as available, quite a lot is not yet comes fresh & with less plastic. I then harvest from my vegetable garden as the seasons allows in the UK. Home picked however small or large a crop is so very satisfying. Anything else I need in fresh I buy in person. What I will buy online is organic items such as seaweeds, herbs & other organic fare. Yet this is not from a supermarket chain & will always be supporting companies which promote organic. I buy lots of beans, lentil, peas from an Asian shop which I soak & sprout into sprouted mung beans etc....See MoreTell us: Do you have any home renovation regrets?
Comments (32)Whilst I recognise there's a few tradespeople on here bemoaning fussy clients I have to say my biggest regrets when renovating my house was not being specific enough with trades! We had an electrician put in an extra light switch in the hall to control both the downstairs and upstairs lighting. He put it in a good 10-15cm lower than the other switch further along the same wall which looked completely ridiculous. Made him move it in line with the other one much to his annoyance. Another similar incident was with a vertical column rad for the kitchen - whilst I was specific enough this time to ask it be centered to the wall it was on, he installed it much higher than needed with about 30cm of pipe sticking out the bottom! It would have looked much better in line with the doorframe adjacent. Had to learn to live with that one. We had engineered wood floors put in upstairs - the fitter used the shortest wall in the smallest room to take a plumbline from. When it came into the hall it was obviously on a complete wonk. By this point I'd gotten a bit better at speaking up and ensuring we actually got what was needed (and paid for!). He had to take it up and re-lay using the hall as the plumbline. Looked so much better but he was extremely annoyed! After all this I learned to use masking tape to direct exactly where pipes/light switches/trim should be fitted so there was no room for 'interpretation'. I also forced myself to speak up more and advocate for what I really wanted. That said I'm a designer by trade so I generally know what I want and how to make it look good but was definitely a bit too shy to contradict trades in the beginning!...See More1970s Estate House Makeover
Comments (18)Oh, wow, beautiful job! May I ask what the budget was? I see the post is 4 years old, but I wonder what the price of a renovation like this would be now. I have a decent, small house located on a beach. Currently, I'm a tenant with the help of playarealestategroup.com, but I'm planning on buying my own home. The real estate agency I mentioned only does business in certain places, and I'd like to move to the US. If you or anyone has some information about house prices in the US, I'd be grateful :)...See MoreOnline consultations – do you offer them and what tips can you share?
Comments (10)I did my first online design consultation way back in 2010 or 2011 for a client in New York State, which seemed very exciting at the time. But I wasn't happy with the the technology I had access to and how it limited the quality of the service compared to my in-person version, so I stopped offering that and stuck to in-person. But at the end of last year I decided to go back to offering a less location dependent service and invested in a bit of tech - webcam and tablet, so now I use zoom with a screenshare and have a design briefing process that my clients work through before we talk. It's now just as good as the in-person workshop and I'm not sure I'll got back to offering an in-person version even once we're able to. I can do everything else, bar the measured survey without a site visit too, so I'm now taking projects through planning and building control stages with all client meetings done online using zoom. It's also handy that you can record zoom calls too, so you have a record of them if needed....See Morealant1000
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