Well, when I finally got there through all the traffic all coming in to Bath to see the German market, to see the Christmas decorations and generally causing chaos I eventually got to the house I was seeing today, but I was almost washed out before I started. It was a property built in the late 1960s in a reasonably contemporary style because the bedrooms were downstairs and the living rooms upstairs. It had a flattish roof, in reality a roof with a very shallow pitch to it that is covered with felt, but its extension had an elongated triangular shaped roof that was covered with low profile sections of alloy tiles commonly found in New Zealand, which was a bit odd but nevertheless the roof was not leaking. The gutters and windows were in a good condition. The walls were in reasonably good condition but the cavity had been insulated or filled with rock wool quilt blown into it through small holes drilled in the walls, but never filled with a matching mortar so the elevations looked as though they had chickenpox; I would have been quite cross with the installer. Some window openings had been in filled and a fairly large area of wall had also been rebuilt but in no case were these contractors experts at their job, I suspect Bob the Builder had been on the site. Talking of which, the house stands at the top of a hill down which is a fairly steep and very large garden over which the house looks. It wasn't a bad house; it is a pleasant house but it was a house that does require a little bit of intelligent improvement, which my Client intends to carry out…   more »