Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can be settled by no one but the settler.* There are still however some important considerations as to Situation (see chap. iii. p. 18), Soil, &c. (see chap. iv. p. 29), and Water Supply (see chap. vi. p. 44), which may afford scope for discretion, and in dealing with which it is in such case highly advisable to exercise it. Probably, too, Cost (see chap. xiii. p. 149, and, if about to build, Construction (see chap. v. p. 35) maybe an element in the calculation. And even if it be not, there can be no actual harm in knowing beforehand what you will have to pay and why you will have to pay it. All these points settled as regards the locality of the proposed establishment, comes next the question of the house itself. And here the first step is to make sure that your intended purchase contains the required accommo- dation. And to this end it will be well to check off its rooms, &c., by the following list. Nor is this by any means an excessive precaution. It is one thing to have a general knowledge of the necessary rooms, staircases, &c., and quite another to apply that knowledge effectively to each particular case, as may be learned from the story of Gloucester House, at the corner of Park Lane. That commodious mansion, tradition tells us, was just completed, when, on removing the scaffolding with its ladders, it was discovered that H. R. H., * In the case of Ireland, it of course settles itself—in the negative.