Big Badger House (aka Noisy Lodger) HE'S GONE!

Badger_Lady

Right, that's everything packed:


He hasn't given me a time but, yeah, I'd be surprised if he came before 3pm.

poppysarah

You should text him and ask him to bring your stuff back

Loanranger

You did well BL to get room cleaned up.
I read BL's post as though she had found her DAB radio and DVD player under his rubbish. Perhaps I misread it.
No-one will want to rent the room with carpet in that state. I think 50 pounds is too little to charge him for a replacement carpet.

Badger_Lady

Loanranger wrote: »

I read BL's post as though she had found her DAB radio and DVD player under his rubbish. Perhaps I misread it.

Yes that's right, in his room. Although it does look like sneaky thieving business, my stuff was technically still in my house, and there's nothing to prove that he intended to remove it.

I'm a bit miffed about the DAB though - it was a gift from my Dad and I had been genuinely puzzled when I couldn't find it to play some music in the dining room...

BitterAndTwisted

I'm trying to be charitable here, and it's quite difficult after seeing the photo of his midden/room and the utterly revolting state he's made of that carpet BUT he didn't steal your things, he just appropriated them. It's not uncommon for people sharing a house to borrow things and you were rarely there to be asked. It's a matter of boundaries: you have a house full of nice stuff which people are free to use so he used them, just not where you left them. he might be an objectionable useless twerp but he may not be a thief.

I wonder how much a new carpet and the fitting thereof will cost? Never mind the Flash and Febreeze. If he's not utterly mortified by the knowledge that you've been in his room and seen the squalor, I'd be very surprised..

Badger_Lady

I'm thinking that I'll have to change the mattress, wash the curtains and replace the carpet. I've slept on a smoker's old bed before and, lying on it like that, you really do get disturbed by the smell.

- The mattress was originally from Freecycle, but they're a bit harder to come by these days. I might treat the next lodger to a new (budget) one for about £70.
- The curtains are just thin Ikea ones, so they'll easily go in the washing machine on a boil wash.
- The carpet has to go, frankly. Again it was only a thin budget one so I'll happily replace it with the same - for a room like that I'm confident of finding a bin end and laying it myself, so it shouldn't be more than £50.

I hope that'll be enough... the walls were only recently stripped back and papered (with plain backing paper), so I'd be extremely reluctant to change that. The ceiling still looks white enough. But a fresh paint job all over might help it to smell fresher, right?

Slinky

He managed to entice a young lady into his lair without being mortified....... some people have very low standards.

Badger_Lady

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I'm trying to be charitable here, and it's quite difficult after seeing the photo of his midden/room and the utterly revolting state he's made of that carpet BUT he didn't steal your things, he just appropriated them. It's not uncommon for people sharing a house to borrow things and you were rarely there to be asked. It's a matter of boundaries: you have a house full of nice stuff which people are free to use so he used them, just not where you left them. he might be an objectionable useless twerp but he may not be a thief.

It's unusual to use a DVD player in a room with no TV though...

Sooki

If he doesn't cough up the dosh, I think if he ever has the nerve to ask for a reference just send those pictures.

BitterAndTwisted

Slinky wrote: »

He managed to entice a young lady into his lair without being mortified....... some people have very low standards.

I think the adjective you were grasping for was "no" rather than "low".

B_L: no curtains on a boil-wash! Well, not unless they're previously boiled linen which they most certainly won't be. Just wash on the proper temp and use vinegar instead of fabric conditioner.