i bought my house then discovered .....

Tigsteroonie

... the previous occupants bodged everything. Wiring, plumbing, construction, kitchen fitting ... it looks great but is scary.

ManuelG

peachyprice wrote: »

I was just dumbfounded that they didn't say a word.

Not usually a fan of suing, but in this instance I hope you chased after them as hard as you could!

greenbee

I knew about most things, but we're currently redoing the ensuite and hadn't planned on taking the bath out, just retiling round it.

Except the bath was installed OVER the tiles.

We found evidence that there was originally a shower - the hole where the pipes came out was filled with wood, and damage from a leak filled with silicon sealant. The bath was too long for the space so they'd chipped the plaster off at one end to fit it in. And then stuck it to the tiles with tile adhesive.

There was also a redundant electric pull-cord socket above the bath (the kind with a red LED). No clue as to what it was for - shower was mains as far as we can tell, so was towel rail, no extractor fan. Builder assumed it was disconnected. He was wrong. (It is now).

None of the walls have been mist-coated so we've had to scrape the paint off in most rooms before redecorating. Only a couple of rooms have been redecorated (in 2002 - it was written under the wallpaper in one room) since the house was built in the late 80s. So maintenance was clearly not a priority.

Luckily, it looked terrible when we viewed, and when we moved in, and the survey was pretty accurate. Plus I've round a decent builder. Drives me nuts with all the mess, but he's getting stuff sorted!

arbrighton

Well neither we nor the surveyor visited on a rainy day- the conservatory was in far worse a state than we thought and leaked like a sieve.

The leak in the outhouse- NOT fixed

We (and the electricians) only figured out all the wiring about 8 weeks ago after almost 4 years here.

Cigarette packets hidden all over the shop

An emptyish calor gas canister

A bottle of bucks fizz. So kind i thought. Until I took it to a party and we poured it and it was brown and years out of date.

All sorts of CARP in the garage

Their motor cruiser was still on the mooring on the day we completed. We were assured it would be sold. It mysteriously disappeared that weekend- presumably its new owner just didn't bother to knock and let us know he was taking it

Lead water piping and all sorts of bizarre plumbing arrangements. We still have bizarre plumbing thanks to some pretty stupid plumbers

Davesnave

peachyprice wrote: »

They moved out the day we moved in. It was a cracked pipe under a concrete floor, I guess they didn't want the hassle or cost of dealing with it, maybe it happened in the last few days so they just kept the windows open.

Silly thing is it was easily resolved, we just had the gas cut off to the kitchen and bought an electric hob.

I was just dumbfounded that they didn't say a word.

We had an under the concrete floor gas leak on an inherited property, but it was small. It was a manometer test that picked it up, as we couldn't smell it.

I thought about it for a while. It had probably been there for years.....but in the end I had another pipe taken from the box to the boiler/hob, just in case.

McTaggus

A mallard nesting in the shed. She's very sweet, though not sure how the dogs are going to react to the soon to arrive ducklings in the back garden!!!!!

Rain_Shadow

McTaggus wrote: »

A mallard nesting in the shed. She's very sweet, though not sure how the dogs are going to react to the soon to arrive ducklings in the back garden!!!!!

They won't be there long. We had a duck nest in one of our borders for a couple of years. The adult leads the ducklings off to find water pretty much the moment they are hatched.

d0nkeyk0ng

...there's a birdhouse attached to the side of the house
...a filthy, uncleaned oven (took me around 4-5 attempts to clean using oven pride)
...left over paint pots and tiles in the garage (useful for matching and touch ups)
...a space where the built in dishwasher was. And they've taken the covering panel.
...all of the manuals for the appliances. Which was very welcome. Just wished they'd left explanations for what some of the switches do. I still haven't found out a year on.

Browntoa

24 wooden pallets and 3 bikes in the long grass in the garden (waist height)

bmthmark

A random toilet in the loft (all plumbed in) - I even tested it lol
Old electric box out side open to the elements
The old person that lived there kept laying carpet on top of carpet. So we had tonnes of old carpet to get rid of.

But we knew all the strange things with the house and managed to get it at a good price so it was all good