A place to live

Hi Folks,

I need help!

I'm trying to find somewhere to live around the Thames Valley / Outer West side of London. I start work beginning of November and I had though I had accommodation sorted out however the landlord has withdrawn and left me with a mad dash to find somewhere to live.

If anyone can provide advice or knows of anyone that has a place that would be suitable I would be very grateful, for reference I had found a house-share, the place had a garage for my bike and was en-suite... approx £600pcm. I need to be within reasonable commuting distance of Bedfont Lakes which is very near Heathrow T4.

Cheers!

[Luckypants]

Dude, who are you working for? I work for IBM and we have an office down there, I'll see if there is anything on our Intranet, although HR normally sorts out accommodation for new hires...

Cheers Mike

I'm with Cisco, there is a system for finding new places but not a single one has a garage. A bike in London without a garage is a big insurance no-no. If I didn't have a bike finding a place to live would be very easy.

I really don't want to give up the bike...

Is Oxford too far away? I am about to buy a place this weekend, will need a lodger, it'll be £500 pcm all bills included for a double room plus garage for motorbike. Google says its 51.1 miles away, 58 minutes down M40 and M25.

Thanks for the offer Warthog but Oxford is a little further than I would like to commute every day.

Slough, Staines - Doorstep. Gumtree/ Globrix Web


More excitement Ealing/Acton/Chiswick

Could try Kingston? Twickenham (meh)

There is a spare room at my place at the moment. I'm located in staines, and yes we have a garage, with tools. But you need to ask permission first to use the tools.

[Luckypants]

I found that we have a small ads Intranet site, that has precisely 0 ads. I also found an advert bulletin board for the Bedfont and Staines locations with the same amount of adverts (none!). I had a chat to some of the guys I know in Staines and they all said that there is nothing advertised in the workplace. I don't know anyone at Bedfont to ask. The only useful thing was a link to an estate agency who handle our re-locations.

Sorry doesn't look like I can help.

Not to worry Mike, thanks for trying all the same.

Raf you have a PM

Im off to view two places in Staines this evening so fingers crossed there is something reasonable there.

Lost in Staines...

Discovered Rafs (ahem) basement level?