Well. Did some upgrades to my machine, updated from WinXP, to Win7 Pro 64 bit. Reinstalled Skyrim (and steam...... ugh.), copied across my mods and such, and now, I find, I cannot build Lakeview manor. The rope and such shows up for where it is supposed to be, but, I build the foundation, and it doesn't appear. Still just the ropes. I don't have any mods that add spawn points there, that I am aware of.... and it worked fine before the machine upgrades. (no, steam, etc, is NOT installed in Program files, it's all on drive D:.) Been looking for solutions, but, nothing seems to present itself as the problem. Tried various fixes, updated my unofficial patches, etc, and still no soap. (no house....) I am open to suggestions.

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Any suggestions?

Ok, that's just strange... disabled ALL my mods. Just the base game, and dlcs, no patches, etc.... and it STILL doesn't work??

try reloading a previous save from before you bought Lakeview



your not using the same save from your prior installation, are you?

Nope. Started a new game.

I will give that a shot, and see what happens.

Thank You.

Disabled all mods. Just running skyrim, and the dlc. Went back to a save before I talked to the Jarl, went thru the motions again, did NOT take the thane quest...... went to the location, still, nothing happens. I get the roped area, and that's it.

I have no clue what's up here.......

If I disable the hearthfire mod, load the game, save it, re-enable it, will that clean the save of anything hearthfire related??

Edit: Nope. Didn't work. The house simply will not build.

After some investigation i came to the conclusion that.

It shouldn't mod related, neither related to USKP (so if you have it or not it doesn't matter.)

It's just a nasty bug that just happens. Actually that what happens:

"At the beginning of the building process, the foundation won't appear where it should be, and neither will anything else that follows after it. Instead, only the poles with rope that shape the house will be seen."

However, i thing that through some mods, the games code for building that particular house is messed up.

I really don't know what's going on.

Just try:

Load a save before you started your Manor build.

Disable any mods related to houses.

Make a new save.

Load that save and wait 31 days.

Make a new save again, load that last save, and try to build your house again. !!!

I don't have any mods related to houses, aside from the no respawn for hearthfire homes. (and that wasn't problematic previously.....)

Do I have to actually "wait" a month? Or can I just run off and do other things, and come back? If the latter, do I also need to avoid this area???

Preferable before you started the building procedure, and in a different cell.

If i say wait, i mean the fast wait within the game. It doesn't take long.

if you do other things, other quests may appear - so, we don't want that.

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> aside from the no respawn for hearthfire homes. (and that wasn't problematic previously.....) <

I used that mod too. Sorry, forgotten to mention. Has build all houses and manors without problems. Lucky me, i guess.

My second mod was Bella better faces.

I would love to be able to dissect this particular little problem, and find out just what the real issue is, but, I don't know enough about papyrus to make heads or tails of it.

Guess I will just burn some time in-game, and see what happens.

Thanks.

Wish you Luck. Hope it will be fixed.