Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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Assuming you can afford either -
Would you go for a new detached house or a period terrace set over 3 floors, period features etc?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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New detached, never been interested in being joined to someone else.
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Kyle T
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Registered: 11th Sep 04
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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Detached, connected neighbors can ruin the nicest terrace/semi in the world.
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AndyKent
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Period every time.
New houses are bland as fuck.
Then again I wouldn't buy in a shit area.
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
Location: Lancs
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New, "period features" to me means uneven creaky floors, odd shaped walls, doors that don't fit, woodwork with eleventy layers of paint, damp, draughty, poorly insulated etc.
That said I've seen some pretty sketchy new builds too, pick your builder carefully.
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Tomnova16
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New clean and fresh. No previous bodge jobs etc
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Aaron
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Just the bodge jobs made by the "new age" builders then...the ones who sometimes need to extend their profit margin by cutting corners. I've lived in two new builds in recent years....each with their problems.
Yes i realise that all builders aren't cowboys.
My personal view is an older house which has character is better.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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New detached.
I like older houses, but unless you take them back to brick and start again, you'll always end up fixing previous owners bodges.
Also neighbours can be the worse thing in the world, both for creating noise and also moaning about noise from your side. Not worth it imo.
My next house will be detached for this very reason.
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MarkM
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New detached because I have one.
If I had a bottomless pit of money though an old detached house in the countryside.
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dannymccann
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To be honest as long as our next house is detached I dont really care if it's old or new, just cant be bothered with neighbours anymore
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Colin
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Old houses are cold, cost a fortune to heat, come with too vast a garden than I can be bothered with and are maintenance hungry.
New builds have no soul.
I vote new build eco house in the country!!
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Old houses are cold, cost a fortune to heat, come with too vast a garden than I can be bothered with and are maintenance hungry.
New builds have no soul.
I vote new build eco house in the country!!
What do you class as old?
My 1960 house is better insulated, cheaper to run and more efficient than a friends brand new house.
Wouldn't ever buy a Newhouse but that's as its hard to make money on it and a lot just don't seem to be well built.
Plus living in a small village and have done most my life you don't tend to get new houses.
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AK
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older ..... around 1900.
Hate tiny rooms with low ceilings!
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baza31
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Registered: 19th Apr 03
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Buy an old one and renovate it . Choose to keep what u like and bin the rest. One I just done is 1901 . Would of been easier and cheaper building one from scratch
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ed
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Victorian townhouse hands down. I'd take creaky floorboards over hollow paper walls and creaky OSB joinery any day of the week.
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John
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My new build is all brick.
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ed
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Suppose it's wrong to tar all new builds with the same brush.
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random dav
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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Old looking outside, gut it inside and make it ultra modern.
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Robbo
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Robbo
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Should see some of the victorian house conversions in the streets off Kings Road where I am, absolutely stunning! Size, history and structure of a Victorian terrace with all the privacy an modern touches of a new build! At a price, ofc
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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Periods.
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N16K
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Registered: 4th Oct 04
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New Detached, just detached does not have to be new.
[Edited on 14-12-2013 by N16K]
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Lee_fr200
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Registered: 8th May 11
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I have a detached and love it
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