To think cleaning up after the old homeowners is never ending!

[TartanDr3ams]

I dont just mean dirt (but the house was bloody filthy when we moved in!)

We purchased a house and got the keys 7 months ago but I feel like were constantly rectifying the old homeowners issues still to this date.

Maybe we werent thorough enough on the visits but on a look it sempt like most things were just cosmetic (sticky lino, horrid decor etc).. the kind of things you expect to have to do when you move. But it seems thats its much more than that.

4 days after getting the keys we realised the drains were badly blocked. As home owners, despite it only being 4 days, we had a hefty fine to the local water board for unblocking mainly caused by flushed nappies.. we dont have children yet ( :( boo). Weve found toys lodged in weird places, plastic forks and nerf guns melted in the radiator grooves. All the light fittings had the wrong bulb wattage so pretty much every bulb blew in the first few weeks. The guttering was held together with masking tape that obviously didnt hold well. They "did us a favour" by leaving us the dishwasher (with free food chunks inside pukes) but it turns out it was cause it was so poorly wired in that it was just a hastle to remove. The loft is still home to some of their crap etc. Altho been checked safe, the electrics are awful..they swapped out good plugs for silly gadets and left fuse boxes all over. Took the electric fire out to wire it the opposite side so it reaches a plug and the chimney breast just had loads of rubbish in (screwed up magazines, empty nappy box etc). One of the worst is that we have just had the bathroom flooring changed so took the bath panel side off to find that the bath is actually propped up with a snapped off bit of fishing rod..

I really have bought a house from the real bodge it and scarper havent i...

Sounds like our house. They had a new boiler fitted which was great until we moved in and the house never warmed up, they had fitted a boiler for a small flat instead of a 3 bedrooms house, their loft conversion wasn't insulated in the slightest so the wind howled in as soon as summer was over. Roof was leaking badly but they gave the rooms a quick lick of paint to hide it. Blue tac held everything together. The list is endless. It's been 4 years and were still finding things they botched to save a penny. Oh not to mention the piles of belongings they couldn't be arsed to take with them, we had to hire a skip when we moved in to get rid of their stuff!

We Paid for a deep clean and oven and carpets before we moved in. They did a shocking job.

We had a shower leaking into the kitchen, so they just put up another lower ceiling underneath, which as they’d not sorted the leak just got ruined again, why go to all that effort and not fix the leak?

Brick walls with chip board screwed on, then tiled directly on to the chip board.

What looked like corner cabinets in the kitchen, that turned out to be two normal cabinets butted up against each other so you couldn’t use the space in the corner.

But the very best one, was the live electrical wire stuffed under the landing floorboards. It’s a wonder the house didn’t go up in flames!

This is making me feel scared of our upcoming move :s although I now have jacuzzi cleaner on my list for moving essentials.
We had adjustable curtain rods that must have been too complex for previous owners as they'd drilled a hole and cemented them in to get the right length...pipes 'repaired' with cementing another pipe on the outside...electrics were so bad they'd trip if more than 2 electronic items went on. And the cold/warm taps were all reversed (so using the red hot tap would leave you freezing).

Justanothernameonthepage 😂 thanks for reminding me. We couldn't use 2 electrical things in our utility room at the same time. It tripped the power. Took us ages and many power cuts to work out what it was

Oh gosh dont get me started on tripping electrics. Other than the dodgey dishwasher thats what prompted us to have an electrician out. Luckily for us there was no rewiring needed etc. All over the house its fancy lighting where each light fitting has 3-6 bulbs.. they kept blowing and tripping the entire lighting part of the fuse box... but oddly none of our replacement bulbs tripped.. turns out all the fittings were overloaded with massively too high wattage cheap bulbs. Cost a fortune to replace all the bulbs in the house lol