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!! 😡

This house, nothing! We only moved in last week though......previous house, huge house fire, took all of our possessions and had to live in a rental whilst it was renovated....all during the covid lockdowns.

We have a very slow leak we cannot find the cause of. There's a slight damp patch on the kitchen ceiling but no bathroom above. There's an old disused fireplace above so we are assuming the very slow leak is coming down the chimney but recently had the roof replaced (after leak started) and the roofer says not. We've tried everything, cameras in the ceiling void, it's so slow it just can't be identified.

Water issues too. Leaking outside pipes, mould, toilet cistern acting. No shower at present as tiles had to come off as grout perished and water behind. Front door locking me out sometimes. Argg

Easily ... mine was that a decade ago.

We had an old 1970s boiler that was as old as the house, so it wasn’t a simple job. New boiler, new pipe work, new hot water tank.

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

Surely not just for the boiler and installation? 😳
Easily ... mine was that a decade ago.''

I had a new boiler put in last year in a 3 bed house in the SE and it was a bit less that 3k.

10k sounds odd and a rip off, unless you needed to have the boiler moved to a different location needed work done on the pipes & new radiators...

10 year leaky water pipe in downstairs loo. Could not work out where the damp was coming from. Had trades person after trades person coming out to investigate. Wasn't until we pulled the walls down for an extension they discovered the source... so much money spent up to that point trying to fix a problem with no obvious source. Same house - 3 years low water pressure. Again many people out to investigate inciuding water company. No one could work it out. Changed boiler and determined plumber went through everything to try and get it sorted so the new boiler would work. Turned out the stop cock from the mains to the house was half shut. Opened it up and voila... normal water supply.

in our defence it was a very old house so plumbing was all over the place. But there were so many other issues it put me off older properties for ever.

Yes this will do it easily depending on the size of the property (see previous post on our plumbing history!)

There’s a man on Instagram called deric_cahill who is a comedian but has videos called ‘fuck this house’ where he goes through all the ways his house screws him over. Very relatable and funny.

I swear the bathroom has a slow leak somewhere, but can any plumber find the damn thing?! We just keep getting a vague small damp patch on the wall downstairs, that comes and goes unlinked to bath/shower/weather activity.

The flooring in our downstairs shower room had shrunk a bit so every time someone showered water seeped down the side. Eventually it travelled across the floor, under the door and made some tiles on the utility room floor loose too. If took weeks of having a dehumidifier in there to dry it out before we could have the flooring relaid.

Our boiler broke last year too - only one small part but it wasn’t possible to get a replacement so we needed to replace the whole thing. It was nearly £5k but we’re paying it off on 0% interest with British Gas. We could have got it done slightly cheaper but not as quickly (we had no hot water) and would have needed paying off in full which wasn’t an easy option.

Work in our homes never seems to be cheap and is often impossible to predict. Tradesman are harder than ever to pin down. It doesn’t take much to wipe out a decent pot of savings.

You can probably tell I watch his videos 🤣

I had a tradesperson quote to replace guttering and repaint the front of my house in September last year. I paid him a small deposit.

He finally did the job last week.

I've got another tradesperson booked to replace some rotten wood under my roof. He's due in a couple of weeks. I'm not holding my breath...

🤣 definitely marry a builder, I did and now all jobs are done straight away without an exorbitant price tag. Sorry you've been conned, not all builders are arseholes

OP where do you live? If your water company is severn trent then they will fix your leaking toilet for free unless its the type where the cistern is built into the wall.

Someone came out and fixed two of ours last week. Zero cost, appointment within a week and they also gave us a free water saving shower head.

Anglian Water unfortunately as that sounds like a very good deal!

We’re just going to have to suck it up as part of home ownership. You take the good with the bad. When we were renting I used to hate the letting agent coming round every three months to criticise our housekeeping and cleanliness (the house was bloody spotless pre kids) of course now we are free of that shite but have new shite 🤣

That's because they charge twice as much as everyone else.

@WhisperGold maybe...mine from BG cost 3.5k recently. We've had 10k quoted on this thread for a new boiler and some saying that sounded about right and some saying it was a tip off. Would everyone else charge under 2k then?

3K for new boiler 4 years ago. Paying it off interest free

To replace a boiler. Worcester Bosch gas combi, say around 2K and half a day to fit. £10K must be to fit entire heating system.
BTW I am not a heating engineer 😀

Our dining room ceiling collapsed, 200 years worth of wattle and daub, dead mice and spiders. What a treat.

Yep, was talking to our Worcester engineer when he was servicing the boiler and asked him what it would cost for a new boiler including installation. He got the price up and it was £2,600, if supplied and installed by them for the same as we have now.

That £10k has to be for a shed load more than just a replacement boiler.

This is what you get when you listen to advice on mn .

Obviously the previous tenant / owner has buried their DH under the patio and he is trying to get out and comeback as a zombi ! 😂

My washing machine dropped dead this morning, but that’s a drop in the ocean compared to most of these.

That said, we need the hanging tiles redoing on the outside walls. Quote was £21K. A large proportion of that is scaffolding, so the sensible move is to get all the exterior paintwork done while that’s up. The decorator quoting for that job pointed out that the lions on the guttering need re-gilding. And so it escalates…

I wouldn’t mind if it was stuff that would bring joy when it’s done, like a new kitchen or replacement sofa. The killer is that we’ll she’ll out tens of thousands only for the house to look exactly the same afterwards. 😩

Bastard mice.