New Member Looking Forward To More Time Here And On The Broads.

[JohnK]

Hi everyone,

 

We’ve been visiting the Broads for years.

We’ve had boating holidays, rented riverside cottages, hired day boats etc etc. Over the last couple of years we’ve kept a caravan in the area.

Our plan now is to buy a little riverside cottage with a boat.

I’m pretty sure I’ll have a million questions so feel free to tell me to shut up anytime

 

 

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[Bound2Please]

A very warm to the forum  JohnK, from me and the Wench (some call her Inge), if you have questions ask away. As i'm sure some one on here will be able to answer it.

Charlie

[Chelsea14Ian]

John K from me there are some properties in Potter that may be of interest .

Ian 

 

[riyadhcrew]

 JohnK. The more questions - the better - it gets our little brain cells working. 

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello John welcome to the forum, ask away forum member like a challenge 

Regards

Alan

 

[Polly]

Welcome, sounds like you plan to 'Live the dream' 

[Hockham Admiral]

A warm welcome aboard from us, JohnK!   

(And to the ever growing number of Johns on the forum!).   

[Daddy Mouse]

Hi Ask as many questions as you want. We are fairly new at to owning a boat and even the simple questions on the forums have helped us a lot.

[JohnK]

Thanks very much for the warm welcome.
We are going through buying somewhere but don’t want to jinx it so more detail later
First (daft?) question is the riverside cottages that are built wooden piles ... are the piles driven in? Dug out and concreted? Some other sort of construction?


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[Polly]

Driven in, I think, others will know for sure. The ground is really soft so you see new piles being put in from time to time. More  methods may be coming in as technology improves I suppose, some of the big riverside houses in Horning seem pretty solid compared with their neighbouring bungalows.

[TheQ]

Many are on wooden piles driven in, some have had this replaced by steel piling, I have seen some on horizontal railway sleepers.

[ranworthbreeze]

1 hour ago, JohnK said:

Thanks very much for the warm welcome.
We are going through buying somewhere but don’t want to jinx it so more detail later
First (daft?) question is the riverside cottages that are built wooden piles ... are the piles driven in? Dug out and concreted? Some other sort of construction?


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Hi John,

Some of the later built waterfront houses are built on metal piles that are also concreted into the ground, these can be seen at Horning, Brundall to name but a few locations. Many of the properties are raised off of the ground to help prevent flooding. Sadly the floods in 2010 effected many properties.

Regards

Alan

[JohnK]

Thanks everyone. I was hoping there was a single answer. Guess I’ll have to stop being lazy and figure it out if we ever get in!
It’s built on 8” -12” square posts and raised a couple of feet above the ground. But I have no idea what’s at the bottom of the posts underground.


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