Help me laugh at this...

SomethingPunny · 2020-11-11T08:46:19+00:00

My boiler is in my eldest DDs room and she is away at uni so no one has been in her room for weeks. Yesterday morning I got up to find that the kitchen was flooded, who knows how long the boiler has been leaking. This morning I've got up to find half the kitchen ceiling on the floor! If I don't laugh I'll cry 🤣 Luckily I'm renting so it's my landlord who has the tough job of sorting it out, we just have to live with it in the meantime. No heating, no hot water and no usable kitchen 🤣 Share with me your words of wisdom or your own home disasters or just come and laugh at the state of my kitchen!

Themadcatparade · 11/11/2020 09:50

Hahahahahaha you poor soul!!!

No home accidents apart from a little leak or two but the other day when me and DP was upstairs having very noisy sex, the amazon guy dropped off a package of pens (our front door was accidentally left open in the throws of passion) - and someone came in and stole them.

I’d cry too but I can’t not keep a straight face whilst telling that because I’m reality it’s pretty funny.

Bubblebox · 11/11/2020 09:55

My then two year old once came into the living room asking for her unbrella.
She was always up to odd games so I thought nothing off it and handed the brolly over.
Turns out it was raining in the kitchen.
The first I knew about it was when the ceiling fans through.
Thank goodness DD had gotten bored of dancing in the rain and was watching Peppa pig by that point.

Bubblebox · 11/11/2020 09:56

Of it

pastandpresent · 11/11/2020 09:59

Our boiler broke few years back in winter, and yes we had to endure cold nights and all that comes with it.
At least you don't have to pay for it, so you are luckier than us!

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SomethingPunny · 11/11/2020 10:43

@Themadcatparade

Hahahahahaha you poor soul!!!

No home accidents apart from a little leak or two but the other day when me and DP was upstairs having very noisy sex, the amazon guy dropped off a package of pens (our front door was accidentally left open in the throws of passion) - and someone came in and stole them.

I’d cry too but I can’t not keep a straight face whilst telling that because I’m reality it’s pretty funny.

Omg, that's hilarious! I'm surprised the noises didn't scare them off 😂

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steppemum · 11/11/2020 10:45

@Bubblebox

My then two year old once came into the living room asking for her unbrella. She was always up to odd games so I thought nothing off it and handed the brolly over. Turns out it was raining in the kitchen. The first I knew about it was when the ceiling fans through. Thank goodness DD had gotten bored of dancing in the rain and was watching Peppa pig by that point.

that is so funny. Sorry, but it really made me laugh!

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SomethingPunny · 11/11/2020 10:46

@Bubblebox

My then two year old once came into the living room asking for her unbrella. She was always up to odd games so I thought nothing off it and handed the brolly over. Turns out it was raining in the kitchen. The first I knew about it was when the ceiling fans through. Thank goodness DD had gotten bored of dancing in the rain and was watching Peppa pig by that point.

Oh no! Luckily ours fell through overnight so it didn't fall on anyone's head. Glad your DD was safely out of the way when it happened!

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SomethingPunny · 11/11/2020 10:47

@pastandpresent

Our boiler broke few years back in winter, and yes we had to endure cold nights and all that comes with it. At least you don't have to pay for it, so you are luckier than us!

Yes, I am seriously grateful that I won't have the bill for this, it's not going to be cheap!

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Frownette · 11/11/2020 10:48

I bet the thief was disappointed to find out it was only pens

Frownette · 11/11/2020 10:55

Home disasters: I had a really lovely morning out from approx 7am, had breakfast, bought gorgeous food, bought a few things from a slash sale at a clothes shop. I was happily going home with my carrier bags thinking of the nice things I was going to cook when I spotted fire, police, ambulance on my street. Neighbours milling around.

Then realised with horror it was my house and the windows were blown out. I had to move same day as house was inhabitable (it had been set fire to, non malicious, accident). I just remember sitting on the pavement in a state of shock clutching my shopping.

Frownette · 11/11/2020 10:58

Uninhabitable

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SomethingPunny · 11/11/2020 11:13

@Frownette

Home disasters: I had a really lovely morning out from approx 7am, had breakfast, bought gorgeous food, bought a few things from a slash sale at a clothes shop. I was happily going home with my carrier bags thinking of the nice things I was going to cook when I spotted fire, police, ambulance on my street. Neighbours milling around.

Then realised with horror it was my house and the windows were blown out. I had to move same day as house was inhabitable (it had been set fire to, non malicious, accident). I just remember sitting on the pavement in a state of shock clutching my shopping.

Oh, that's awful! You definitely had it worse than me. I can't even imagine coming home to deal with that. I definitely would have been a crumpled mess of snot and tears

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Themadcatparade · 11/11/2020 11:23

@Frownette they were special sharpies

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SomethingPunny · 11/11/2020 15:57

Well, the ceiling is no longer on my kitchen floor so that's a start. It's left a heck of a mess to clean up though and it's going to be at least tomorrow before my boiler is fixed. No idea when the ceiling will be repaired. Keep smiling! 😂

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wowfudge · 11/11/2020 16:14

On the plus side, maybe the new ceiling won't have a textured artex finish! Your landlord has been responsive too, which is a good thing.

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SomethingPunny · 11/11/2020 16:20

@wowfudge

On the plus side, maybe the new ceiling won't have a textured artex finish! Your landlord has been responsive too, which is a good thing.

But then it wouldn't match the rest of the house! 🤣

Yes, he has, which makes a nice change because he isn't usually. There's other stuff that's needed fixing for years. I guess he can't ignore this one though.

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TuesdaysWell · 11/11/2020 16:24

It's currently raining in the living room of our newly-bought but very old house, and had been doing it all night by the time we realised this morning -- and alas, we own the bloody thing, and the workman who came to help has had to drill holes in the lovely old corniced ceiling to try to minimise the risk the whole thing would come down.

To make matters worse, it isn't going to be straightforward, quick or cheap to fix, and even a temporary fix can't be attempted while it's raining this hard.

Sympathies, OP, we've all been there. When we lived a London flat in a Victorian building, the stoner upstairs let his bath overflow and didn't notice until DH kicked in his door (too high to hear knocking), and two days later, about half the living room ceiling came down and missed me by a couple of inches.

TwoZeroTwoZero · 11/11/2020 17:15

I was trying to fix the uplighters in the garden. I brought them inside and was taking them apart to clean them and replace the batteries when one screw popped off and went down the sink. In my infinite wisdom I decided to try and retrieve it by taking off the u-bend under the sink but ended up actually breaking the screw that holds the drainpipe onto the plughole. This was right at the start of the 1st lockdown so we had to wait months for the housing association to send someone around to mend it at a cost of £50 because it was my fault. In the meantime we had to use the bowl to wash up and wash hands etc and tip it down the outside drain approx. 1,000,000 times a day. In the end we fixed it ourselves at a cost £3 for a new pipe thing.

After all that, the uplighters didn't work anyway and I had to chuck them out!