Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

lostinrates

Wow nikkster! I never did pva the floor either!

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Apparently ... most people do, but these people were clueless.

This means they haven't spent the day fastidiously cleaning every square inch ... as I'd hoped.

In all honesty I can't see how they could have had much; when I viewed they didn't have much .... maybe the shed was full of crap. I didn't look in there... it's a shed, what's to see...

Our vendors just crammed all of their rubbish into the bins and left the rest in the shed/loft and left a polite note saying that the bins were only emptied every two weeks and we had 9 days til the next bin collection. They were overflowing everywhere and we had loads of rubbish from moving like packing materials etc. we ended up having to take all their carp to the tip ourselves and then do another trip for our rubbish. The coup de grace was a BBQ which was so corroded that the nuts and bolts holding it together were completely fused. had to go and buy a hacksaw and cut it into pieces to fit it in my mini. Half of it is still in the back garden.

I did toy with driving the BBQ to their new house (closer than the tip) and dumping it on their lawn but decided that was a bit childish even for me.

Still, they at least got out by 1pm and we got curtains up (no thanks to them taking the runners off the curtain rail with them...). Can you stick something over the bedroom window with masking tape? Tinfoil or something?

chewmylegoff

Oh and ours did sort of clean as well, but not really. I find it odd that when your renting you have to get it "professionally cleaned" with carpets steam cleaned and curtains dry cleaned etc, but selling you just hand it over in whatever state you fancy with no recourse.

Our vendors also left the shed with no locking mechanism on it. The only thing in the shed apart from rubbish was a crowbar. Just outside our backgate (about 7ft high) someone has dumped a rusty old 6ft step ladder as well, it was like it had been nicely set up for teh burglarz. The crowbar is now stored inside but the steps are still there, I think they belong to the mechanic workshop which is back there somewhere so I can't just chuck 'em.

vivatifosi

Tonight's big question...

Argentina or Netherlands?

I want the Dutch to win. However last night I was supporting Brazil, so that may not be a great recommendation.

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Tinfoil or something?

Yeah, start as you mean to go on, eh?!

I bet I can beat you all for stuff that was left in the house
In fairness, I brought it on myself by saying that if they were going to skip anything they could just leave it here. So they left a 3-piece suite, dining table and chairs, 4 beds, 2 desks...

The rusty swing frame in the garden was less nice, but Mr Nice Neighbour borrowed an angle grinder from work and saw that off for me (and took the bits to the tip!).

I've spent 9 months sorting out some shizzle with npower though - and I got 3 letters (all for different account numbers - 2 for the last set of tenants and 1 for 'The Occupier' relating to when the previous owners were liable) last week (I've been here 9 months!). So it's pretty annoying that that still isn't all sorted out.
And there has clearly been plenty of DIY bodgery in the past.

vivatifosi

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Gave DD1 her first lesson today (where it's legal, of course, this was taken coming out the airfield).

I am confuzzled CK. I thought you were in your late twenties...

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Oh and ours did sort of clean as well, but not really. I find it odd that when your renting you have to get it "professionally cleaned" with carpets steam cleaned and curtains dry cleaned etc, but selling you just hand it over in whatever state you fancy with no recourse.

Our vendors also left the shed with no locking mechanism on it. The only thing in the shed apart from rubbish was a crowbar. Just outside our backgate (about 7ft high) someone has dumped a rusty old 6ft step ladder as well, it was like it had been nicely set up for teh burglarz. The crowbar is now stored inside but the steps are still there, I think they belong to the mechanic workshop which is back there somewhere so I can't just chuck 'em.

Can you take round beer and ask them to move ladder?

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Tonight's big question...

Argentina or Netherlands?

I want the Dutch to win. However last night I was supporting Brazil, so that may not be a great recommendation.

Netherlands for me too. Just because they're European.

Shame Froome is out of the TdF.

zagubov

PN, congrats!

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Oh and ours did sort of clean as well, but not really. I find it odd that when your renting you have to get it "professionally cleaned" with carpets steam cleaned and curtains dry cleaned etc, but selling you just hand it over in whatever state you fancy with no recourse.

Our vendors also left the shed with no locking mechanism on it. The only thing in the shed apart from rubbish was a crowbar. Just outside our backgate (about 7ft high) someone has dumped a rusty old 6ft step ladder as well, it was like it had been nicely set up for teh burglarz. The crowbar is now stored inside but the steps are still there, I think they belong to the mechanic workshop which is back there somewhere so I can't just chuck 'em.

When we moved into our second house, there were torn bits of wallpaper. BIL was helping us move in. He put a bulb against the tear in the wallpaper and it lit up! :eek:

I know that's illegal to take a light fitting with you when you move but who in their right mind would do such a thing?

In the first house they fancied themselves as ameteur electricians. There was a (very high) power socket in the bathroom wall so a TV could be plugged in. Plus a spur from the ring main on an overhead cable to the garage as mentioned before.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

Netherlands for me too. Just because they're European.

Dutch for me as well. Met loads of Dutch people when I lived in Nikksterville thirty years ago plus visited the Netherlands every year for work until recently and love the place.