Just moved into a new home, partner getting upset...

scorpio_biker

I moved into my house June last year. My partner moved in by degrees after that, and during one of his early trips down I asked him to take a look at the toilet as there appeared to be a leak under it. He duly investigated (was a poor connection of pipes) but as he reversed out from the toilet area he backed into the bath, which fell off the wall/ it's supports. Turned out it hadn't been properly fitted and the pipes weren't properly connected. We also had a gas leak that required the replacement of a significant length of pipe. Luckily we haven't had anything too serious or that we couldn't sort out.

I think the thing is that when you have just moved in you worry more than if you had lived there a while, just in case you have made a mistake in moving. And most things that go wrong could have happened when you had been there 5, 10 even 15 years. It just seems worse when it's early days and in your house honeymoon period.

And there is often a plus side - you know you have dealt with the issue and it will be fine for a long time. With the gas leak my other half took the opportunity to lift floorboards and check wiring, so apart from the cost it wasn't all bad.

welshbookworm

Noticed the bath 'rocked' when I had a bath. Lots of jokes about needing to lose weight. next thing the downstairs neighbours ceiling had fallen through:eek:
Turned out the bath pipe was not joined correctly and had been leaking on the floor, rotting everything!
No bath with three small children until it was sorted out.

todayisagreatday

welshbookworm wrote: »

Noticed the bath 'rocked' when I had a bath. Lots of jokes about needing to lose weight. next thing the downstairs neighbours ceiling had fallen through:eek:
Turned out the bath pipe was not joined correctly and had been leaking on the floor, rotting everything!
No bath with three small children until it was sorted out.

Did you actually go through the ceiling whilst in the bath :eek: Makes my woodlice problem seem minor. Glad I'm in a bungalow!

Though we did spend a week yanking up all the carpets which were wet through with dog wee and trying to get rid of the smell!!

dancing_star

Hole in guttering, meaning water gushing down onto bay window, leaking bay window, water gushing into living room.



Whilst the builders had downed tools for a fortnight over Christmas. They 'hadn't got round' to fixing the drainpipe beforehand.



Spending New Year's Day shinning up a ladder on to said bay window, screwing a temporary 'ski slope' of cement board and a layer of heavy duty plastic to the bay to divert the water into the garden.



Whilst it was hurling down with rain, blowing a gale and freezing cold.



Bailing out buckets strategically placed under said bay until all the water had stopped flowing.


That was a good one.

Bonniepurple

Our first house had graffiti on the master bedroom walls, the politest of which was !!!8220;we conceived our first daughter here. Hope you do the same!!!8221; - with very graphic descriptions of how! The kitchen larder cupboard contained a booby trap in the form of an industrial chip pan.

We got the place sorted after 11 years- to sell!

RiversTam

I'm in the exact position OP.
My husband hates this house we bought, he says it is cursed.
We've had poo hidden under the floor boards, that was interesting....

The boiler sprung a leak a week after the new kitchen was fitted resulting in needing new benches and cupboards (and the service had said it was well looked after and in good condition the month before).

The water meter we paid to have moved into the garden (to fit our new kitchen) sprung a leak at 2am and resulted in the garden being dug up.

The new bath sprung a leak and ruined the newly plastered ceiling below and wasn't an easy fix as the bath was sealed into the wall.

Lost all the wardrobe/drawer fittings in the move and had to wait on Ikea sending new ones, so had a floordrobe for weeks.

All this in the last 5 months. My husband said if the curse doesn't break we are selling the house at the one year mark - I on the other hand just think it would have happened at any house, we just have bad luck!

FloProActiv

Reading this has been very reassuring!

We've just moved into our first place. After getting the keys, we discovered that what we thought was paint on the walls was actually wallpaper...and about 6 layers of it. When we started pulling it down, it's taken a load of plaster with it.

Gas had been switched off between tenants leaving and us moving in (about a month). Booked an engineer to come switch it back on again. After about 20 minutes (most of which he spent on the phone talking about a different job) he told us the boiler was broken. Cue a bit of a cry. Fortunately (a) it seems like an easy fix, hopefully (have a friend who had a similar problem with his boiler and is an ex-gas plumber, and he sorted it himself fairly easily - it's the circuit board that is broken rather than the full boiler... we hope...) and (b) we still have our rented flat (a 6.5 minute walk away) until mid June, so don't have to have cold showers.

Been moaning to my mum about it, and she's just been reminding me that she and my dad lived in one room of their first house for 4 years while they did it up. Hoping it won't be that bad for us!

Belladonna14

The day we moved into our house we had to hoover the walls, they were so full of cobwebs!
The previous owners took the shed, we didn’t realise the fence was missing behind it, so it left a great big gaping hole.
I tried to close the kitchen blind, it fell off the wall.
We turned on the kitchen lights, none of the bulbs worked.
I turned on the oven to make a meal, the oven was absolutely filthy, I was almost sick. It took 3 major deep cleans to get it right.
We got an electric shock from a socket.
None of the windows would open as they had window locks and we weren’t left any keys.
And to top it off, when it rained we realised that the fall pipe had been rerouted due to the conservatory being built, but rerouted to no where. All the surface water of the back of the house soaked into the corner of the house!!!!128561;!!!128561;
I was fed up for quite a while!

Skippy13

I broke the front door lock the day we moved into the house. We ended up sleeping with the security chain on and a chair wedged up against the door as we were too knackered to wait for a locksmith so my husband fixed it the next morning.

A couple of years ago we had a new bathroom window and it turned out the old one wasn't fitted properly, only held in by foam (and it's a fairly big window). I wasn't tall enough to reach the fanlight on the old one so I used to balance on the edge of the bath and lean against the window to shut it. I'm now thankful that I didn't fall through the window!

hazyjo

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Houses seem to know they've got new occupants and they want to assert themselves in the first few weeks, just so you know they've got the upper hand in this relationship.
You might think you own the house but actually it's the other way round.

That's why when you have a relaxing bath on that first night, and you pull out the plug, all the bath water ends up pouring into the kitchen breadbin downstairs.

It's just putting you in your place.

You've cleaned your teeth successfully thousands of times before but this time, in this new house, the tap will come off in your hand and by the time you've stopped shrieking from the blasting jet of cold water and have located the water valve, you, your pyjamas and the entire bathroom are absolutely soaking wet.

And you just got a reminder of who's the boss here.

Haha I LOVE this lot. Our downstairs loo cold tap stopped working altogether. Soon showed it who's boss and ordered new ones and binned the old ones. Aww I feel sad now lol. Maybe it was just having a bit of a strop x