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To The People Who Owned My House Before Me I Would Just Like To Ask

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MintyyAeroEgg · 30/03/2009 21:18

Why, why, why, when the kitchen measures 25ft by 12ft, you chose to confine the kitchen area (all the units and appliances) to about 1/3 of the available space, and devote the remaining 2/3 to a dining area - which you chose to CARPET in dark green carpet. I just cannot get my head round what you were thinking of, you silly silly silly twunts.

Anyone else?

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Twinklemegan · 30/03/2009 23:40

Oh God I forgot, did you not clean the kitchen ONCE in your whole time here? It took me and my mum 2 days to clean it, and the oven was only fit for throwing out.

mrshippy · 30/03/2009 23:39

Why did you use Monoply board to fix one of the cupboards.

Why where there cuddly toy parrots in almost every room and why did you leave them there?

Why did you, cleverly and correcly, put sticky tape over the area of tile where you drilled, but then leave it there and attach the shower rail on top of it?

Why is there (still) a womans boot stuck and now half rotted into the top of the washing line post.

Why did you use what appears to be plaster of paris and bandages to block holes.

Why did you GLUE a grey carpet on top of the quarry tiles in the kitchen - why did you choose to put a carpet in there in the 1st place? Surely slippers or a washable rug would have been better.

I could go on...

Twinklemegan · 30/03/2009 23:39

OK, here goes.

Woodchip on every bloody wall. Why? Woodchip painted dark green and orange, painted over in magnolia for selling (thank God). Were you colour blind?!

Vinyl flooring with hairy backing stuck down to wooden floors with what seems like superglue. Did you even consider the person who had to scrape it off?

Why oh why oh why put the living space upstairs, including the kitchen where there is NO hot water supply (apart from a mini water heater) when there is no view because you can't reach to see out of the veluxes. Then divide up the downstairs with a poky corridor that makes it feel like a council flat. Why oh why oh why?

And why didn't you tell us that reason you're drinking bottled water isn't the tiny risk of bacteria identified by the Council, to be fixed (my arse), it's because the water that comes out of the tap is like POND WATER!!

We knew the house needed work, we just didn't realise we needed to do a conversion of a conversion!

Simplysally · 30/03/2009 23:38

Why didn't you ever dust the place or clean your cooker hood? Or indeed the inside of the oven [boak].

Small crimes compared to some on here (the decorating is fine if a little.... tedious being all magnolia..) but I'm sure the girl in Tescos thought I had a cleaning OCD when she saw my trolley packed with cleaning products... two of everything bathroom related... and no food .

And your manky glasses/mugs/cutlery/sheets/towels.

They're in the garage if you want them back .

smurfgirl · 30/03/2009 23:37

Why did you put a kitchen in, with NO DRAWERS? Where did you keep your knives and forks?!

What were you thinking when you wallpapered your bedroom in lime green and orange, its hardly restful!

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:29
NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:28

Oh yes - It was odd because I was pregnant but had not suffered from any sickness until...

dh opened the compost bin by your back door.....after i had puked all over the patio - we threw it on the skip but could still smell it after the skip had gone.....

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:25

Your stock of 1974 Mead was NOT enjoyed when we moved in

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:24

Why did you put he plug sockets so low on the skirting board that you cant actually 'get' any plugs in it as they are scraping along the floor

BoffinMum · 30/03/2009 23:23

Why oh why did you strip the coating off all the taps with some chemical so they all needed replacing?

And block the dishwasher with rice to the point which it died?

And spend hundreds getting a fancy patio laid down, with no concrete but just laying it on sand, so it is an uneven deathtrap now?

And install silly side-by-side speaker points in every room for a DIY centralised sound system, but not finish it off, so there are wires hanging out of the living room wall for no reason?

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:22

it was kind of you to come back from your new house ( in France) and 'steal' the sundial a month after we had moved in!

Hathor · 30/03/2009 23:20

Why didn't you give your new address to one old lady who sends you a Christmas card every year? Let me guess: did she vomit on your carpet just before you moved house????

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:17

ahhh the loo roll holder that was kind

hope it fitted in your new bathroom

Hathor · 30/03/2009 23:16

Why did you take the light-bulbs and the blummin loo-roll holder and leave a large vomit stain at the foot of the stairs? You didn't do any cleaning from the time we signed the contract to when you moved out did you? You disgustin pigs.

And why were you still here after we had collected the keys from the agents?

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:15

it was sweet of you to leave the window cleaner bill for £45

Northernlurker · 30/03/2009 23:15

Why haven't you redirected your post in the ten months we've lived here? It isn't for lack of funds - we've forwarded a copy of every known 'family' holiday catalogue and brochure for luxury goods. I live in fear of the baliffs arrival as you are plainly either insanely rich or horribly profligate...

Why didn't you replace the broken wonky slabs at the side of the house -it isn't supposed to be crazy paving you know!

Why have you never replaced the filter in the extractor fan?

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:15

thanks for leaving the cellar full of crap when it was in the contract not to - and you pointed this clause out o us and 'still' did it

hatwoman · 30/03/2009 23:12

loving this thread.

why did you keep your porn stash in that bit of cellar that was basically a rubble-filled hole in the ground?

did you know that we've still got the plastic shark that we found behind the radiator? it's taken on a slightly iconic status. it would be bad luck to throw it away.

why, given that the kitchen is a nice size and could have been a divided up into a comfortable kitchen-breakfast/play-room type scenario did you so unimaginatively put units round three walls making it look all lumpish and, well, unimaginative?

why did you let the kitchen installer box in the plug for the hob extrator and light meaning that when the fuse blew we had to knock a hole in the hood (which is now nicely covered by children's art work?)

Notalone · 30/03/2009 23:07

Why did you block off the drainage in the garden with concrete just so you could engrave your names and the year you moved in. I am sure it was ver romantic but it caused the fecking house to flood everytime it rained.

Why was the ugly mahogany bed built into both the walls and the even uglier wardrobes so we could not put our own bed in without demolishing the whole bloody thing? Why didn't you tell the bloody bed was built in when you heard us talking about our lovely bed that we couldn't wait to put in that room. Oh, and why were both the lamps and the clock radio also built into the wall so they could not ever be removed or even unplugged. WHY???

Why did you hide the lack of oven door with a cleverly draped tea towel when we came to look at the house? We only discovered this when we actually moved in and went to cook dinner. Oh and why didn't you tell me the oven was on its last legs and only one of the hobs worked?

Why, oh why was the interior the shower made partly of wood. Wood ROTS you stupid stupid idiots? Especially when wet.

What gave you the idea to put brown long pile carpet in the hallway with mint green woodchip walls? Was like a giant mint choc chip icecream and it did not look good ok?

Why did you let your dogs piss all over the carpet in the lounge. When we removed the carpet it was that bad it had rotted the wood underneath?

Why did you never clean your kitchen cupboards so me and a friend had to spend a whole evening scrubbing them to get rid of the brown sticky stains?

What went through your head when you decided to get arty and paint the kitchen cupboards blue with flowers on the handles. After the expense of rest of the house we couldn't afford to replace the kitchen.

Why did you not have any carpet in your DC's room aside from a manky rug. Oh, and why did you leave all their posters behind? Was it perhaps to cover the holes in the walls.

Phew - think thats it. My god I hated those people when I moved in!

Stayingsunnygirl · 30/03/2009 23:02

Dh viewed (but strangely didn't buy) a flat that not only had purple carpet on the bathroom floor and up the side of the bath, but up the walls and across the ceiling too!!!

MintyyAeroEgg · 30/03/2009 23:00

Ooooooh am liking the sound of that diagonal stripe/apple wallpaper HJM.

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Califrau · 30/03/2009 22:59

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BananaFruitBat · 30/03/2009 22:58

Why didn't you clean out the gutters?

How the hell did you cope with rain water pouring down the inside of the window?

TheSynOddOneOfWhitby · 30/03/2009 22:56

Maybe KitKat21's switchless light needs KitKatQueen's light switch.

Quattrocento · 30/03/2009 22:55

Oh and the other thing, why did you develop a plug socket fetish? I mean it is nice to have lots of plug sockets, but it's not necessary to have ten in every bedroom. Also why are all the extra plug sockets at waist height?

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