Brick built vs wooden stables... what do you think?

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All looks lovely - I am uber jealous
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Stables look fine aside from the asbestos roofing. Although I don't think you have to change them - just don't disturb them.

House looks like a fantastic project.
 
Maybe your friend just doesn't have the same vision that you do - it's probably not that she's deliberately nasty, she just can't see past all the rubbish etc that's there now to what it could be. Some people can, others can't. Unfortunately, I'm one of those who would like to but my husband is a DIYphobe so I'll never get to have anything other than a finished article.
 
I was expecting SO much worse - I think that's gorgeous, looks like many a small racing yard or something like that. You're so lucky!

It's a lot smarter than our livery yard! lol
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So long as it's safe, then it's a brilliant set up & I'm very jealous. As to sand schools - would always be my preferred surface, what tree has she fallen from?
 
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i'm not entirely sure, as she rides on sand where she keeps her horse at livery... and she told me they've got a great school...
i think she just can't see past the cars/scrap metal/caravans etc. whereas they don't bother me at all. in fact, i like the fact they put people off, because it means no one else is interested in the house!

perhaps i should stop watching so many DIY programmes...
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Well I presume you will have the property surveyed properly, so I'd take advise from the surveryor, not a friend who has seen a few pictures. I know which one I'd trust to tell me the house had 'severe structrual faults'!!!

I think it looks fantastic, and with some hard work, which it seems you aren't afraid of, then it will turn into a fantastic home for you and your family.
 
I think your friend is a nice shade of green at the moment!!

It is always sensible to spend money on a survey, that way if there are structural issues you can budget for them and even re-negotiate the offer. Most things can be addressed given time and money, but I don't know how she can 'diagnose' the type of problem from a photo! Some cracks are merely cosmetic on the plaster work, others are more serious but you need an expert's opinion.

The other things she mentions are a bit silly to be honest! The stable yard looks perfectly sound and serviseable just not pretty, but that is so easily fixed! We managed with electric fencing for 3 years while all the post and rail was put in, did us no harm! The school will probably need a new surface, but it's there (so I presume it has PP, but check!) and it is huge!

Go for it is what I say!
 

Ditch the spiteful, jealous b***h of a friend. It looks like a great place, a really exciting project - lucky you
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wow,- a REAL project, but looking at the photos' donest look to be anything structural ( my only worry, and it is just a small niggle and not realted to your stables, is the neighbours, if you are a semi. ) They dont seem to be the tidiest and I am sure that you are planning to make it really smart they might let the view down at times....

I agree with everyone (and about the "Friend") the stables are better to be stone, and those look fine, a couple of new doors here and there, a weed and a pot of paint and it will be fabby. The school looks nice and big too, when can we all move in...

Please keep us updated on your progress....
 
A good few years ago my ex and I took on a house that was crappy with 10 acres of what had been a fruit farm left to run wild - it was a dump. Machinery and bits of stuff everywhere, we paid £365k for it.

Barn we restored into a 2nd house, first house done up, stables (wood, but I'd have had brick if the budget had allowed) barn and tack room put in, post and rail fencing, driveway and courtyard, swimming pool, arena and field shelter put in, and land all sorted, gardens and lake landscaped and grass canter track - valued at 1.2m now. (course it's not sold because of the credit crunch and no marketing is being done, but it is fabulous and shows what can be done).

Good luck, you'll have to work hard, but it can be done and it'll look lovely, Stuff the friend...
 
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my only worry, and it is just a small niggle and not realted to your stables, is the neighbours, if you are a semi. ) They dont seem to be the tidiest and I am sure that you are planning to make it really smart they might let the view down at times....


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that's one of my concerns too... especially as we're used to being detached, and our nearest neighbours are exceptionally tidy... however... that's one of the things that makes it affordable. we are hoping to get it for 50k less than we sell our current house for... and our current one has no land/stables etc. we're moving to get land... oh, the dilemmas...!
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here's the message my 'friend' sent me:
you have gone completely insane!!! It is GHASTLY - souless, characterless, major strucutral faults, house should be bulldozed, the stable yard isn't fit for any animal and looks like a gypo site, all the land needs fencing, the manege is crappy sand which you'll only be able to use for about 3 months in a year....
PLEASE tell me you are not seriously considering it???!!!!


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"Saucer of milk for table 2 pleeeease!"

I'm speachless - and she's a friend? Wow!
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Is this the friend that says 'rip up the school'? She sounds lovely, not! Must say it is much better than I expected and the stables will be great with a lick of paint and some TLC. I'm jealous
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brick every time after having a fire through the stables, much easier to control/deal with brick than wood!
 
If you dont have it i'll have it haha
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Only kidding, but i think maybe you should put your 'friend' in a very deep hole so she can listen to her own echo alll daaay looong
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