Dirty Pigs!

mandragora_2

We had many lovely gifts left for us, including:
two bin bags full of rubbish inside by the back door, including old, sour milk bottles;

an uncleaned ferret cage complete with stale straw and ferret droppings in the shed

doors and skirting boards chewed by three large labradors left to roam the house while they were out

a stinking, rotten carpet in the stairs that they had the cheek to ring up about a month later and try to charge us £100 for

a speedboat in the garden (as it was moved for disposal, it started to stretch it had rotted so badly)

a Harley Davidson motorbike in the gargage (collected by the neighbour who'd left it there when we let it be know we'd be selling it within the week if it was left lingering)

when we turned the water on, it started to come down the overflow pipe after 40 minutes because the ballcock had gone in the loft

a tub of brown water when we ran our first bath at the end of the first day

electric that had been cut off for non-payment of bills

ditto phone, milk and bakery supplies

electrics that needed completely rewiring

local businesses knocking at the door for the first two years at various time demanding payment of unpaid bills

and they had had three children under five at home at the time. The local story is that when the midwife saw the state of the house that the new (twin) babies were brought home to she nearly didn't let them stay.


Ah, the joys of a repossession.

clutton_2

re water tank... i would get it cleaned properly and emptied of all rubbish in the bottom.. if it has no lid and there is any suggestion of rats in this property you are at risk of Weils disease if the rats have got into the water tank....

Pete111

Sorry to hear that OP - not sure what you can do other than get it sorted and (eventually) enjoy your dream home.

Moved house a while back and whilst the previous owner was very good in getting a cleaner in on the day of moving, things were really only 'surface clean' - pretty mucky otherwise!!

In addition, the place stank of smoke (smell covered by air fresheners prerviously when we looked round) and after basically moving nicotene around with sponges for several days (ewwww....) we eventually had to seal the smell into the walls with very expensive (and very toxic whilst wet) paint before we could redecorate!

More issues emerged when we started landscaping the garden. It turns out they had buried the entire set of recently replaced single pane windows 6 inches beneath the flowerbeds....frames and all. Bearing in mind this is a detached 4 bed house thats an awful lot of broken glass beneath the petunias...

Finally whilst digging out an old path, I was within centimetres or finding out the hard way that they had lightly buried an unarmoured 240 volt cable along the length of the garden to supply power to the garages - my trusty aluminium spade would have really helped there!!

In a nutshell - you are not alone....

clg86

Thanks for all your messages guys. I just needed to air off before I went round to their new place and gave them what for! We do have their number so my boyfriend has just text him asking for the name and number of the person that fitted everything as the water is running brown. We got an answer saying:

The overflow from the heating goes into the cold water tank abocve the hot water tank. This water then goes into the hot water tank. Sometimes does this if the heating is not being used. Tank was fitted by an engineer around 16 years ago.

Not much help really...

clg86

clutton wrote: »

re water tank... i would get it cleaned properly and emptied of all rubbish in the bottom.. if it has no lid and there is any suggestion of rats in this property you are at risk of Weils disease if the rats have got into the water tank....

It did have a lid but that was also covered in a rusty brown residue, I hope to GOD there is no rats! There's no sign of them anyway, although that would be a lovely moving in present

BargainGalore

Are these them, sorry couldn't resist

clg86

That's them in their new home, they haven't had time to mess it up yet...

vet8

We had a similar thing. When we moved in here the fireplace in the living room was about 2 foot deep in fag ends and fag ash where the previous owners had clearly sat and flicked ash etc. into the fire for months. Even the removal men, who smoked, thought it was disgusting.

They also left loads of rubbish, we have been here for 22 years and we still find stuff in the sheds etc.

JanCee

RuthnJasper wrote: »

Ewwww... How gross! You have my sympathy.

.... I'm not religious - but I did seriously consider at one point getting a priest in to exorcise the place!

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Sorry to hear about your trouble, but the bit about the exorcism really did make me laugh.

Owain_Moneysaver

clg86 wrote: »

The overflow from the heating goes into the cold water tank abocve the hot water tank. This water then goes into the hot water tank. Sometimes does this if the heating is not being used. Tank was fitted by an engineer around 16 years ago.

Not much help really...

That's dangerous and probably illegal. The heating vent/expansion pipe should discharge over the heating header tank NOT over the cold water tank that supplies your hot water. You really do not want to be bathing in fernox.

The heating circuit is supposed to have inhibitor and chemicals in it.

If that was fitted by an engineer then I'm well on the way to winning Mr Universe, a Nobel Prize for nuclear physics, and the lottery jackpot all in the same week.