Serious point. The website that Tigger gave quotes the average house price for Cheshire @about £445k. It is a far higher average in Alderley Edge itself. Good place to live but too far from the coast for my liking.
We've taken on projects far worse than that jno. I have a reliable inspector living with me. Not up to it any more. My days as a builder's labourer are long gone
We virtually restorded completely the house we live in now. Pulled down walls and ceilings, added extension. Dug out floors, changed position of stairs, damproofed, plumbed, electrics. Most of it with our own fair hands. And I was working full time. No wonder I wore out!!!
Togo. Yes, all the time Togo. We weren't lucky, we took a risk and worked so hard. We invested everything we had(which wasn't much)into an undertaking with no help from friends and family. Now we are apparently lucky to live where we do in a really nice house. There were days when I could have cried about living with no loo, no kitchen and two ears without stairs or heating, or when water poured through a new ceiling!!