Water tower to dwelling

One for 'Grand Designs'. Very brave I'd call it.

Bill

It does - no door shown on the plans. Maybe it a full height window.

Good on them - went for £110,000 (from a guide price of £4k).

Should think that scaffolding cost a few quid - 100k to adapt? Foundations should be quite sturdy :-)

well with a tower of that height, like that, you're virtually gauranteed a half decent DAB/FM/Freeview line of sight to various transmitters I should think! ;-)

funnily enough, some TV transmitters do have a lift within. ISTR that Emley Moor has a lift within its concrete shaft and its one of the tallest transmitters in the UK.

Should think its do-able to put a lift in the water tower.....

williamwright laid this down on his screen :

I have seen at least one other on there, seems an awful lot of steps.

Seems to have a letter-flap at the bottom ...

Dick and Angela put a ?vacuum operated one in one of the corner towers at their French Chateaux.

And they could gone the whole hog like that Grand Design in south London a few yeara ago which was built as crescent-shaped structure and the owners decided to have curved double-glazed glass patio doors and windows to match the curve of the building.

The company that made them did actually manage to get the glass panels to curve correctly, even though they weren't sure if they could.

Pretty sure that is just protection tape.

But there seems to be no opening windows.

I'd have thought the architects might have included at least one set of wide doors to winch up furnishings, white goods and replacement fixtures rather than rely on the spiral staircase.

It's not South London:-)

House prices are different in Yorkshire.

BTW if you buy this property one of your closest neighbours is a Mrs Rosemary West.

King size bed was my first thought.

And another is Mrs Emley Moore.

Bill

And her thinner sister.

and of course; Mr (Henry) Woodhouse

I had a friend who knew a family who lived in Russia, in a tower block. Apparently when everyone moved in to the new building, the lifts were turned off by "De Management" (Hale and Pace) so the lifts wouldn't get damaged by all the furniture and washing machines. People had to carry everything up the stairs. The lifts were only turned on when everyone's furniture was in place. If anyone moved (De Management knew when and where) the lifts were turned off for a couple of days during the moving process.

Temporary hessian padding in the lifts would have protected the insides from getting dented and scuffed, but that was not The Right Solution.

I would imagine that at that distance (about 3 miles, by my estimation) the difficulty would be trying to avoid Mrs Emley Moor deafening you. I bet you could pick up the broadcasts with nothing plugged in the aerial socket ;-) We used to live in Wakefield and I remember we had a set of about 10 attenuators daisy-chained together between the aerial lead from the wall socket and the one to the TV.

I'd forgotten about Bretton Hall, which is near there. That's where I first learned about computer programming: my mum arranged for me to use the computer at the teacher-training college there on Wednesday afternoons when other people played rugby.

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