to think I'm useless and can't do anything right ...

[Helloandgoodbye445]

Yesterday I posted that the council of wanted to do a welcome visit.
Today was a knock on the door and it was the housing officer.
I've been here for 3 weeks now and the place to was dirty,every room needed 3 coats on each other wall (big rooms) every ceiling needed painting,every door and door frame.
Everything needed doing.
I haven't carpeted yet as I haven't finished.
I'm doing floor tiles in bathroom and kitchen.

I'm a full time carer for my 90 year old gran with dementia.
I've finished the living room,the bathroom(just needs Floor,hall is finished.
Painted walls in bedroom finished (just wallpaper)
I was proud of myself,done it all alone.
As well as moving my things up (no car so countless trips up and down with bin bags)
She comes in and says "she's disappointed im not finished and thought the carpet would be down )
I've done as much as I can do..I'm decorating daily once I come home.
It's so much nicer than it was.
How dare she be so judgemental when the previous tenant was clearly a scruff.
When I'm finished the place will be lovely.
Give me two months and il be finished

You've done bloody amazing OP!

The amount of work you've done in 3 weeks took me a year, on my old, bought-for-dirt-cheap-but-needed-gutting-throughout, home. A year.
I'd be tempted to complain about her attitude tbh, but if not, just accept that you weren't in the wrong, and you're certainly not useless.

Why would you put carpet down before you've finished painting?! And it'll be cheaper doing it all at once (carpet-wise at least) than bit by bit as you finish a room. I'm guessing the housing officer has never had to do bulk-decorating like you're doing and so is clueless (as well as gormless and tactless). To have got to the point you have in 3 weeks given your responsibilities is amazing. Keep doing what you're doing!

Weird.

I've never known a council to care whether you have carpets down or not.

What a bloody cheek!! I'm so angry on your behalf, OP!

I'm decorating a few rooms in my house at the moment and it takes ages to do it properly! Not least when you're living in the property at the same time, plus working and looking after other people, etc!

She's probably new, or is basing her expectations on what the teams of professional decorators can do when they turn round a room really quickly.

It's annoying as it one of those situations where I'd be so blindsided by the unexpected comment that I would be too shocked to say 'well, perhaps you'd like to come by and help me after you've finished work tonight for the next two weeks so we can get it finished quicker'.

Just ignore her - she's an idiot and you're doing great!!

Is it a housing association property?
I thought there are minimum standards that have to be met. One of them is up to date kitchen and bathroom with adequate flooring in both and no cracked or missing tiles.
The bad state of the property would have been recorded and your acceptance of this state was not dependent on you decorating it quickly slowly or even at all.
Most council or housing association properties are provided with a decorating pack which supplies everything needed for the main rooms and comes in form of a voucher that you redeem and then all the stuff is delivered to you including the rollers and dust sheets and paint choices you made plus loads more beside. Yes I do realise not all provide this.
This is to save them a fortune on decorating and workmen before they rent it out to the new tenant.
Your tenancy does not state that you should decorate and certainly carpets are not essential. There are people who live in total poverty or just dont care about their property and live in squalor . None of this matters because it is personal choice of lifestyle and this choice is a human right unless they infringe upon a third party .
My son works within the housing association and he has seen the most appalling homes including drug and alcohol abuse.
You are not in any way wrong .
Please make a complaint. You have every right to be respected for your amazing work and turnaround of THEIR property . They should be bl--dy grateful.
This person is obviously a patronizing cow and do not put up with it.
Be reassured that you have security and you are not at risk or in any way wrong. It is your home not hers.

When i actually went for my sign up she seen I was claiming carers allowance and said "your only income is cares allowance,you have your work cut out doing that place up then" and smirked ...
That annoyed me from the off..
I'm just going at my own pace now.
She's coming back out in two weeks ..
She said "it would be a much nicer state of living with carpet furnishings"
I said ..I plan on carpeting just not till I'm finished everything ..what's the point in getting brand new carpets dirty

I would also like to add that many moons ago my sister started her adult life in a two bedroom council house and the same thing happened to her.

She had decorated all the rooms and carpeted them in the six weeks up to the new tenant check.

The woman who came round could not find fault inside so she made a comment that she was disappointed that the garden had not been re-turfed "yet". What an assumption and a ridiculous expectation.

This comment stayed with my sister all her life and although she owned wonderful home in a lovely area later on she always felt that someone was judging her. Who, I have no idea but this feeling came from some horrid woman making a comment to her when she was just eighteen and living with no parental help.