5 QUEEN STREET DUNOONRead About This House and Then Decide if You want to Buy or Rent it.
A 4-bedroom sandstone Villa dating around 1880, with lath-plastered walls, wooden floors, an uninsulated external constuction and a cellar to the full size of the property.
And: 52 Walls Place, Dunfermline KY11 4RF PROS: The property is large and has a spacious front garden that can be converted to paved or concreted parking space, a beautiful garden and a sitting area. The large cellar can be used for storage. The floor of the ground-floor is insulated, but this requires an inspection. CONS: The moment you enter the property, the stench of sewage penetrates your nostrils. Spent eight hours a day in this house and you will intermittendly smell the sewage, wherever you may be. Because: a) the enterance to the sewage system requires a septic tank type seal in which the toilet drain then slides. b) the cellar floor under the bathroom and possibly somewhat further down, has to be dug up and dumped as it stinks of sewage. c) the stench of sewage possibly has penetrated the waste and particularly the insulation pieces dumped throughout the cellar floor. This stench then penetrates the building through the wooden flooring. The external construction of the property is uninsulated. In February 2023 the coin meter ticked £100+ weekly, but the temperature did not exeed 16 degrees. The entire cellar is filled with rubbish of all manner, mainly insulation leftover waste. The bathroom under-floor should be closed from below in the cellar, so that the bathroom remains warm and no energy is wasted. At the moent is is open from below. A casing should be build around the pipework in this area, in the cellar. The washbasin of the downstairs bathroom has an issue of water seeping through the basin waste. It needs tightening. The waste pipe of the upstairs toilet has a T-fitting instead of an downwards bend. This has to be replaced as waste water ought not to travel two ways but straight down. The damp is breaking thrugh the external wall (on the right side facing the window). I noticed this in September as it got colder. The patches should be clear to see now. The cellar door has to be replaced to a secure door with a lock. ROOF - During the winter of 2022/23 the roof tiles have been replaced, but directly under these, there is no insulation. The pitch of the entire roof has no insulation. Loft: - The floor of the loft has glasswool insulation, but the pitch is not insulated. EXTERIOR CONSTRUCTION - the entile exterior construction is uninsulated. The walls are ice-cold. CEILINGS: - The ceilings are generally in good condition, but the ceiling of bedroom 1 may require another coat or 2 of paint as the T-fitting on the toilet waste pipe has flodded that area after decoration. Toilets normally have an downwards elbow fitted. But, as the owner put a stop on the works, this could not be rectified. FLOORS: - Upstairs has a squeeky floor in the hall, and downstairs in the lounge the floor is slanting to the left at the enterance, what results to a wide gab under the door. DOORS: - If you like heavy, old wooden doors then this is your house. You can renovate them, renovate the door frames and put them back up, but otherwise you rather go for new doors and tidy the frames up if you will not replace them. STAIRS: - The first three to four steps of the stairs are slanting light to somewhat heavy. These require proper levelling. WINDOWS: - One of the windows of bedroom 1 requires replacement. - One of the windows in the lounge does not open and the one in the kitchen also does not open. KITCHEN: - The kitchen cupboards have been painted, but the kitchen actually requires replacement. CELLAR: The cellar requires clearance of all rubbish and sanitation of the ground. GARDEN: - The messy garden, though massively transformed from its former disgrace, requires a re-design and tidy up. A parking space can be build in the front garden, so cars can comfortably turn in and out. POTENTIAL TENANTS: Beware of the heating costs of this house and the stench that will penetrate your nostrils when you reside in the house. POTENTIAL BUYERS: Know that, if you are not prepared to invest at least £25,000 into this house, the property will remain questionable for human habitation. info@5queenstreetdunoon.co.uk
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