Fuck This House - what has your house recently done to screw you over?

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So this evening we realised that the bathroom has a slow leak and has been very quietly pissing water down the wall behind the bath that has now affected downstairs. When we investigated behind the bath panel there is a wall of black mould so this must have been going on for months 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

We also have a leaking downstairs toilet as well and can we find a tradesman who will actually provide us with a quote after inspection …… no we cant!! 😡

I feel your pain. I had a leaky outside pipe which is now fixed but has left the back door and window rotting and fungus blooming everywhere. Can't afford to fix it, can't afford not to!

I also have no damp proofing so the downstairs walls are bubbling, floors so uneven that the toilet keeps leaking, and a rotten old shower.

I'm a single parent so can't even hide under the bedcovers whimpering, which is what I'd like to do.

It's not the house, it's the inability to be able to get a tradesman in quickly when you discover a problem! I needed a new shower fitted - four months I was waiting for someone to come and do it. Then my toilet broke and wouldn't flush. Could I get someone to come out? No, they either 'only did central heating' or wouldn't come out as far as my village. Eventually I paid a FORTUNE for a 'same day' tradesman to come out, tell me he couldn't fix it and would have to come back. Fortunately he came back in his own time, and he fitted my shower for me at the same time, but I'd been six weeks without a working toilet by this time.

So, not entirely the house's fault, but people just not being available to fix it!

Leak in roof near kitchen window. Quoted £thousands to fix it. Don't have that kind of money. Also routinely seem to have plumbing issues which we have to bodge up/ temporarily fix. Double glazed windows now draughty and need replacing... all I can afford to do is add foam insulating tape round the edges.

And don't get me started on the patio, which appears to be shifting due to some movement by a big drain cover, all the slabs adjacent to the drain are getting higher and higher... dread to think what's happening under there! 🙈

Also on a more superficial level, the fitted kitchen units are falling apart and several tiles on the kitchen floor have holes in them.

Rotten roof. $16k, wiped out our savings, then the a/c went $3.5k, that’s on a payment plan. H fixed the damp in the loft and the mould and bathroom ceiling himself to save some money . Couldn’t do any extras or vacation this summer. Our ‘summer’ holiday will be a two night weekend away in October.

We've had our chimney fixed 3 times and it still leaks.......

Been too fricking narrow in the hallway to get a fridge/freezer in, and mine is on it's very last legs 😩

Leak in the pipe work behind the walls. Whole wall, through all three levels of the house had to be ripped down to find and fix it and then repair and redecorate. In the meantime we find out some of the pipe work is lead. This was as a result of our beautiful new downstairs loo bubbling and getting damp, so that had to be ripped out too.

Wall fixed, dry wall, happy days. Then we notice a smell. Rats had chewed through the downstairs loo 2.0 pipework after coming up the drains, enter stage left rats in the house. Fancy loo 2.0 ripped out again. This was another horrendous carry on, involving expense plumbing, rat catchers (3 different people) and having to drag a dead rat from out from under my cooker. Literally a horror film.

Downstairs loo 3.0 still intact.

This covered two years of house claims. Obviously insurance is now £££££ so added a high excess thinking NOTHING else can go wrong. I have just lost the main diamond from my engagement ring ffs!!!! Oh then OH scratched the wooden floor right through the house a couple of weeks ago dragging our broken fridge (another expense) through the house after I told him to use the fridge wheels so the floor didn't get scratched.

Mind you, a house down the road was struck by lightening two years ago and nearly the whole house burnt down. They had just completed a beautiful new loft conversion. Took forever fo their insurance to come through.

Blocked drains...family's sh-t up to my elbows. Lovely!

Yep, we had your situation a few years back, had to have a whole ceiling replaced. Now, also doing renovations, had a tradesman just ghost us half way through his job. Not impressed. It's a nightmare trying to find reliable people and when you do, of course they are so popular you have to wait ages to get them booked in! Then there are those 'small jobs' that no-one wants to do because they are too small, meanwhile they are causing all sorts of issues getting on with the related bigger jobs! Grrrr. Character-building, I guess.

Pipe from the bath to the outside downpipe has cracked , causing it to pour onto and over the guttering outside our kitchen door . Discovered as daughter pulled the plug just as I walked outside with a basket of washing to put out and got deluged . Great .

Everything that goes wrong in this house is water related. Everything.

Ancient water tank in the loft sprang a leak and poured torrents of water through the bathroom ceiling, then the floor below's ceiling and then right down to the floor below that (utility room) while we were all out for the day. Came home to the plaster ceiling having fallen in in the bathroom and just cascades of water inside and outside. Had the emergency plumber out to turn off the water and investigate. Then, while waiting for insurance to get builders to repair it, found the roof was leaking too when it rained.

Black mould on bathroom ceiling. I need to get someone in to clean, seal and repaint it and I have cubital tunnel syndrome in my elbow so can’t manage it myself.
cannot get anyone to quote.

In the spring we decided to replace some of the ancient appliances. Decided on a new cooker and dishwasher. Within a month the washing machine and tumble dryer packed in…

After having the bathroom done a couple of years ago with no problems, youngest had a bath and when finished, pulled the plug and the contents deposited itself down the walls in the dining room.

Bath panel is built in and tiled, so had to chip off a couple of large tiles and get under. Bath overflow pipe had broken, so replaced that. Fortunately I kept 2 boxes of tiles back, so could retile the panel and grout it. So that's sorted.

Need to repaper the dining room and paint the ceiling.

Cistern in bathroom now wants to constantly fill, so need to fix the ball valve. That's today's job.

Fortunately I can fix these things, but it's a pain in the arse.

We need a new boiler 😭

I feel your pain and know about those sleepless nights worrying about the cost and inconvenience. I'm an elderly, single female and have lost count of the times I've been conned (yes, I know, my own fault). I'm afraid of getting work done now and will probably end up like Miss Havisham wandering around this crumbling Victorian pile with a candle. Renting, new build, retirement village, marrying a builder are options I'm going to consider this winter.

Just done that! 10k of savings gone 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh my goodness I had been going to start this thread! Or at least one on ‘how do I fix the penetrating damp I have just found for not squilions of pounds’

debating retraining as general handywoman purely so I can fix my house.

btw @missdeamenor i believe those married to builders often have the worst houses. Like cobblers children having no shoes.

Just done that! 10k of savings gone 🤦🏻‍♀️

Surely not just for the boiler and installation? 😳

Ours is literally falling to bits, there is nothing else that could break or go wrong. Leaking roof, broken washing machine, sloping floor, mould, dampness, half the heating system packed in, hot water tank that is rarely warm enough for a shower, the tv now doesn’t turn on and the other has gone all faded and black 🤦🏼‍♀️ every time any minor inconvenience happens now my husband says ‘see this house’ 🙈 We are planning to sell it soon but live in quite a small town so there’s a good chance we would know the buyer and we’re cringing at the thought

Sunday evening DH was in the downstairs toilet and the door handle broke, I couldn't get it to open from the outside, so handed tools through the tiny window for DH to get himself out.

The door handle is an absolute mystery, we can't figure out how to get it off. One afternoon of YouTube videos and internet research didn't help.

Off to get someone in to do what should be a 10 minute job.

@TokyoSushi British Gas do interest free payment plans for those :)

Feeling grateful as my house actually works pretty well now, but it took a long time to get there after moving in

This happened to the eldest in our bathroom. I had to take the handle off to get him out.

He was a tad grumpy, I think he'd had a "clear out" and it wasn't to pleasant in there.

Garage ceiling decided to collapse , four years after we bought. DH has rescued it with acroprops and lots of drilling to keep the rest up with screws.. Buga