Been in our home since May...absolute house of horrors...

Morata_

So many issues, mainly plumbing, must have spent a few £k on it - just really upsetting!

It’s not things that would come up on surveys just things like leaking shower units, boiler issues ahhhhh part of me really loathes the house!!! Just seems never ending....

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Such is life...

Thrugelmir

The joys of buying a house. Hopefully you intend remaining there for some time. Which will make the investment of getting everything fixed properly worthwhile.

-taff

Welcome to my world.I sometimes joke [and the OH does] about burning it down and starting again....sometimes it's only half joking....

hazyjo

Comes with home-ownership unfortunately.


I moved in last Nov. Just been told the sewerage pipe is caving in on itself. £1,200-ish job. Plus the £150 I just had to fork out as a temp fix. The boiler has been playing up and we had a man out for that. It's on its last legs and we hope it limps along through at least another year. Had to spend dosh getting the back weatherproofed and some cement sections re-applied at the bottom, sorted out badly kept window ledges, painted the front of the house, replaced a section from the gable which managed to fall off, narrowly missing my glass-roofed car(!), erm... let's see... the washing machine has packed up so that had to be replaced. Erm, I'm sure there's been more. Oh, the underfloor heating in the bathroom isn't working. The water pressure is crap, and we think there's a leak somewhere.


Welcome to my world...


Do I love my house? Absolutely! Every day we say how much we love it and where we live and how lucky we are!

foxy-stoat

And who said that renting was completely dead money - only about 75% dead !

Get it fixed and enjoy your home.

moneyistooshorttomention

It does ease - at some point.

I felt very much the same about current house - with all the work/expenditure I knew needed doing and then a lot of work/expenditure I hadnt known needed doing. The problems with getting suitable tradespeople in this area. The two neighbours from hell here. A major job I knew needed doing (to the tune of some thousands of £s) that became urgent and had to be done NOW (whether I had the money for it or no) and etc etc:eek:

Fast forward a few years and I've basically finished the house itself now - though there will be "reminders" of local tradespeople there for evermore (ie the plasterer that wasn't much good and the electrician that didn't mention the house really needed complete rewiring and so I didn't:mad:). The garden has had a noticeable amount of work/thousands of £s spent on it and will just have to "wait" until I've got the 5-figure amount of money it needs to finish it (it's on the "Whenever..." list).

The nfh eventually piped down and started "behaving themselves" and had to accept they weren't going to be able to trespass madly/order me around/etc etc after I'd managed to deal with things with the help of "outside" officialdom/rules/laws/normal ways of doing things across the country as a whole.

So I guess one has to count oneself lucky if there aren't any nfh/flooding problems/subsidence problems/Nastier type weeds problems/leasehold problems/service charges/etc and it will all "settle down" at some point and stop costing money/hassle/upset.

Xplosivgas

I too can relate. Moved into my house a little over a year ago. Since then we've had to address a massive diagonal crack hidden under wallpaper, replace a bay window leaky roof, replace the boiler that was defective from day 1, leak under the bath...oh, then replace the entire roof which failed after a few months.

Of all those things, the only think I anticipated was the full roof replacement as it looked old - but was stick hoping it'd last a couple years.

The point it, you're far from alone and you'll get there in the end - stay strong!!

Morata_

Haha!

I know, thanks all. Feel a lot better now! Well...better and skint!!

maisie_cat

It might appear that everything is going wrong at once, but when these things re fixed you will know it's good job and that it will last.
In the 12 years have been here we have replaced the boiler, all the radiators, much of the pipework, some of the wiring and a new consumer unit, much of the flooring, bathroom, kitchen, windows, broken garage door and a wall that was falling down because it had been constructed on floorboards!
We also had to replaster lots of blown original plaster, and have redecorated the entire place.
We do not think there is a single surface that is as it was when we bought & it has sometimes felt like a money pit. It looks lovely now and we at least know that there are not hidden bodges.

teffers

Morata_ wrote: »

So many issues, mainly plumbing, must have spent a few £k on it - just really upsetting!

It’s not things that would come up on surveys just things like leaking shower units, boiler issues ahhhhh part of me really loathes the house!!! Just seems never ending....

I feel you pain.

I bought my first place back in 2016 and once in, the house made it very clear it didn't us there lol.
It didn't help the vendor was a lieing !!!!!!! (I now assume all sellers are, so that's that lesson learned).
First the gas meter was venting gas (for weeks).
The place had mice.
The !!!! who had owned it had fitted the kitchen himself and built the units THEN the raised oak flooring right up them, helpfully using wood peices screwed to the walls. This meant when I wanted to install a washer I would need to remove all the units or the flooring.
The pipes banged with pressure every time a tap was used.

Every time the cooker was used it filled the house with the pungent smell of fish.
The party wall was was so thin you could speak to the other caller at the end of next door's phone calls. A delightful aspect was that the neighbour had fitted a water heater on the party wall meaning it vibrated the whole house when in use. He also had a habit of leaving his teenage kids on their own all weekend with all the noise that ensued. They refused to answer the door when I went round with tea and cake ;-)

We picked a village that seemed lovely and friendly, right up until the point we moved in, then it turned into Royston Vasey.

The house literally fought against me ever step of the way. Every single bit of furniture, every window blind every improvement ... the house said NO lol.

I put it on the market 6 months to the day from buying it. It sold to the first viewer as it looked lovely.

They sold it 6 months later..
Whole lesson cost me about £10K in fees, furniture and other costs etc. :beer: