Can i pick your brains please

Couple of subjects i could do with some infomation on if anyone can help please.
I dont know if you recall my......fight like Cyril.....post, when my old fella was in hospital, sorry to say that Cyril departed this earthplane in august 11 days short of his 86th birthday.
He had a lovely send off, he passed away comfortable in the knowledge, that he was loved and had led a good life and was respected by many.
We the family are at peace with it all.
Whilst nothing on the scale of what you see on the telly far from it, my old fella was, like many of his generation a bit of a hoarder.
He hated throwing stuff out, any ornaments that he and his late wife ( my step mother) had bought would be placed on veiw whilst something it replaced would be stored.
This applied to almost every thing .
We have cupboards full of stuff, many a time ive tried to get him to part with stuff, which he stubbornly refused, its only now do i realize why ...when ive come to get rid,
............every single piece as a memory attached to it..........
and i too have taken the mantle and been reluctant to move it on.

However there needs to be change and after 2months the time is right to move it on....
so my question is ....
which auction house would be the best bet, how do i know if any of the stuff is worth actually putting up for auction as a lot of the stuff ranges from early 50s .through to present day.
Theres a few items from the 1st world war my grandfathers stuff.
2nd world war my uncle stuff. Which i should imagine will be valuable.

My next question is.....The house ...which as been left to me, needs improving. Its still solid fuel as dad was a ex miner and recieved his coal allowance.
Whilst theres a gas supply to the house theres no meter installed, so i want to change the heating system, i also want to up date the double glazing and it needs loft insulation
Is there then any government/ local grants available in my quest to go greener ....if so who where and what...

 

The above post posted before i had the chance to say thanks in advance and any help would be appreciated.

 

Before allowing any auction house/ house clearance types near that lot, I'd go through it all (laborious I know) and use Google to research - it might seem overkill but there's a big market for retro stuff - daft things you might chuck out - someone will buy. The WW1 and WW2 stuff - get a specialist in to value and go through the stuff.

Somebody I know in Sheffield used this lot http://www.chesterfield-auctions.co.uk/ when thy were in a similar situation.

 

Agree with EN.

The money you could raise from that will potentially cover the refurb,

Especially the First World War stuff given the centenary.

 

Loft insulation and cavity wall insulation is free. Loads of company's doing it. Had mine done six months ago.


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Hi mate, me dad is a coal merchant so I do, sort of, have a vested interest in this. Bear that in mind when I say the following.

Don't be in such a rush to rip out the solid fuel burner. If it's connected up to the hot water and central heating system it can be very efficient. The majority of me dad's customers are not people he has kept for years, they're new customers who have changed from gas back to coal. He knows someone who fits solid fuel stoves and open fires and he's never been busier. If there are that many people spending money to go to solid fuel, it's not a cheap job, there must be some benefit in it.

 

you have pm

 

Replied to pm thanks