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[Owain]

This property benefits from hanging rails in every bedroom and an EPC of 1 (must be the low energy bulb in the lounge).

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54767070.html

The bedroom floor is a bit slopey too ...

 

[Zebra]

How would you make an attractive feature of those bars?! Has anyone ever seen that before, ones that comes right through the room like that?

 

[88v8]

Not all bad. Original features

Those bars look like a short-term fix. Someone has a big job ahead of them.
Builders I would guess.
But an extension at that end, where there looks to be room, might be an opportunity to build out the problems at little extra cost.

Ivor

 

[Feltwell]

Those bars look like a short-term fix.

Hmm, like a lot of short term fixes, one that was done a long time ago I suspect! Someone really went for the "path of least resistance" there didn't they?

Nice property though, and with the tie bars moved to somewhere sensible like between the floors / above the ceiling as they are normally fitted, could be a good house. One for checking carefully before buying though!

Odd that they are tied so close to the gable and party walls though - not where you'd usually find tie bars :?

 

[steveb]

Must say i'd be tempted to let sleeping dogs lie and pad the walls out 4 inches to box them in... :roll:

 

[TheForge]

Paulton’s an old mining area, probably bigger issues underground!

Old Mills was a pit and the site of the original Great Mills store as well for a bit of a DIY link!

 

[Andys]

There's a missed opportunity, with a bit of thought they could have saved money on a rail for the shower curtain.

 

[Keith Bowman]

And someone has bought it! But STC - would be interesting to see what a surveyor makes of it.

 

[Schweiz]

We have a tiebar which supports our bulging roadside brick facade, passes through 2 bathrooms, leaves the house, passes through around 12 feet of fresh air and then enters another wing of the house and is secured to a corridor wall. The house was built in 1610 and the brick facades added in around 1760. The tie bar was likely installed in 1910 when the servants wing was added.

In the bathrooms, the bar is cleverly boxed in with the service pipes so isn’t visible. It’s certainly an unusual arrangement and took our surveyor a while to warm to, but with the usual caveats he wasn’t overly concerned.

 

[philpjuk100]

I have a couple of tie bars in my workshop, great for hanging things from. As a schoolboy our class was taken by the science master "the cube Parker to a small local cottage which was undergoing restoration where we saw tie bars fitted with buckets of burning coke hanging from them and a carpenter showed us sash windows he had made with steel rods used as sash weights which he put big rusty nuts over until he got it "wacko" (still remember his description sixty odd years later!). I thought after remembering this I would look it up on "google earth" but now there is a nasty block of flats there!