What's the grimmest/ weirdest thing you've found when you've moved into a house?

[ItsLeviooosar]

One house we were in (rented) had a double ended dildo in the wardrobe and tenants came and asked for it back! They also washed things for their rabbit in the dishwasher and there was sawdust in the filter 🤢.

Most recently we moved into a lovely house (bought) it's our first house so we didn't really know what to expect. However we definitely didn't want the previous owners washing machine and made that clear, they put it on the fixtures and fittings form at £500 and we declined.

Moved in and it's fucking there ! It was wedged right in and we had to store our washing machine in the basement for a bit whilst we worked out how to rip it out. I used it a couple of times but didn't like it, it sounded like it was taking off and all the washing was tingly when I went to empty it

It was German, and according to google 28 years old! Anyway we finally worked out how to rip the bastard out without killing the kitchen and found out it was a real health hazard.

It was a German plug, into a travel adapter, into an extension lead wired into the mains, worth the water pipe from the washing machine dripping onto the plug 😱 I'm
Surprised it didn't catch fire! But the guy who removed it said the reason the washing felt tingly was because the washing machine was live!

They had to pay to have it removed as we went through their solicitor.

Grimmest - used condoms...

Bought first flat and they tried to get us to buy the safe. We declined. Turned out it weighed a ton and their movers couldn't shift it (not down 3 flights of stairs). We left it when we sold, too.

Our current house has an upside down coat hook on the back of the front door. We haven't been able to figure out the purpose.

A fridge full of mouldy food, a decayed squashed mouse in the door hinge bit of the dishwasher and lots of other furniture, bags of clothes, blocked toilet, plug holes full of dark hair, the list goes on. Filthy dirty house. All cleared and charged to seller via our solicitors.
It’s nice now though.

* Aroundtheworldin80moves* possibly for hanging a wreath?

A load of used sanitary towels behind the bath panel.

We replaced a tap three months after moving in and found them.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

We have an upside down hook on the inside of our front door - it's for hanging Wreaths at Xmas.

It's completely smooth so we discounted wreaths, but happy to be corrected!

Sorry for thread derail but how do you hang wreaths on an upside down hook? I've always hung mine on a right-way-round hook.

@monkeyonthetable

Sorry for thread derail but how do you hang wreaths on an upside down hook? I've always hung mine on a right-way-round hook.

You run fishing line or wire through the wreath, hang it on the outside of the door and have the fishing line hooked over the door, and then secured on the upside down hook on the inside of the door.

That hook would absolutely work for a wreath on the other side of the door.

I found baby food and a bib in the gap above the fitted fridge in our new house and lots of matted dog hair in the carpet- having cleaned it it's a different colour!

I used to live in a flat that someone before us let their kids draw on some of the walls. In one of the bedrooms, there were all sorts of fish and whales and adorable sea life, all okay, but in the large cupboard where the electric and gas meter were, there was this really bizarre mashup of people and things all drawn in thick, red paint.

I wish I had a photo of it, I can't find any now, but it was like horror movie warning to get out while you still can/the child is possessed style drawing. Due to where it was and the lack of lighting there, we didn't see it until we were pretty much done unpacking. I think it got painted over eventually, but I still remember that, it was so weird.

My friends house had a can of coke in the middle of the sink with lots of long hair in it, it was horrible.

A cousin of mine also found naked photos of the previous owners in a wardrobe.

We've never found anything in ours, I've always thought it would be exciting to find a secret cubby hole with an old map or diary in, but as our house is a newbuild it's unlikely!

Ive always wondered how wreaths were secured! Seems obvious now! Doh!

Previous owners porn stash behind the water tank in the airing cupboard. They had 'interesting' tastes!!

I found a secret storage space that the previous owners didn't inform us of so I suspect they didn't know about it.

That hook idea is really cool - I'm going to use it

These are awesome :)

@GiantPinesAhem how did you find it?!

@ItsLeviooosar sheer accident- it was from the built in wardrobe into the cavity over the stairs, and I caught the back of my hand on it when putting something in the wardrobe months after we moved in, wondered what I felt and half climbed in to see where it had been cut away in the wood (which is what caught my hand) pushed on it and it opened!

You couldn't see it at all from the outside.

Yes we use an upside down hook to hang our wreath, you hook it on and then hang the wreath over the front of the door.

That hook thing - bloody genius!

Thanks for explaining about the hook!

(Now can anyone explain the need for multiple bolts on the bathroom door?)

The immersion heater was wired into the mains using a bit of lighting cable. How it never caught fire I do not know

Dildo in the built in wardrobe.

Oddest thing was renting a house out to a colleague for 6 months. When he moved it nothing had changed or moved even the bottle of wine I'd left him was in exactly the same place.

I've no idea where he'd been really living....but he paid his rent.