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Tips for selling my house?


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Those double glazed panes are relatively easy to replace. On the  inside or the outside, there will be a slight gap where the angled plastic beading meets the flat part of the frame. This means that this is the side the beading is removable. 

The professionals use something that looks like a pizza slicer, the less initiated use a big wood chisel to prise the beading out from the middle of the window and then do the same with all the beading. Measure the glazing whilst a partner holds the pane in place, replace the beading, order a glazed unit (remember the thickness of the glazed pane), repeat and fit the new pane....or get a glazier in.

How do I know...I fitted all the windows in my house....saved a few bucks.

Other than that, Nepia and Joe have it pretty much bob on. Look at Rightmove and see what looks good to you and replicate it. Most prospective purchasers will notice all the stuff that needs doing and will get to the tipping point where they smile and run in to the distance!!

 

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And be prepared to get all your documentation together if you have had any work done.

Choose a local solicitor who you can get a direct number for, not some plastic factory conveyancing specialist 300 miles away - the former will be busy but the latter are completely snowed and from my (painful) experience understaffed and generally a PITA to get anything done by. Whichever you choose though, still expect to have to chivvy them along. My legal colleague at work said, and I quote, “I apologise for my profession as far as conveyancing is concerned, you have to ride them.” I think I phoned or emailed our solicitor about three or four times a week on average from the end of November through to when we actually moved in mid-February.

Cloudy2Clear are alright but I think run a franchise model, which means you a paying a chunk of someone’s profit when you use them. I’ve been lucky to find an independent bloke who does the same thing and is cheaper - about £60-80 per unit, fitted and guaranteed, depending on size.

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On 12/05/2021 at 20:23, josharb87 said:

Gut the place, get rid of all clutter, go for a proper minimalist look, no personal artifacts.

clean the windows inside and out 

 

This. 
 

If you need a clear out do it now. Give it a lick of paint. 

If it’s still anything like last year it’s a wild time to sell. We were looking at houses last year and almost everything was going for 30+% over. One house we looked at was on for 130 and sold for 230. It was a shit hole. 
 

Good luck. 

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