Oddly enough Middlesbrough and the surrounding area produces engineers who built the world and we have people based all over running chemical and oil companies. This links in with today's annoyance although I've done it before under different circumstances. The gadje who lived near me runs his own engineering company in Holland and designs and supplies various pipe work and utilities for the above industries. They decided to buy a farm out in the sticks. I happen to know that they spent a fortune on their five bedroom house. It was structurally sound and everything was top notch. I saw it empty before it was sold. You could move straight in and not have to do a thing.
Why oh why oh why do people spend so much time looking for the ideal house, find it then go backwards and forwards deciding if it really is ideal, buy it (three weeks ago) then spend time pulling bits out and making banging noises 4711?
Still haven't moved in.