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To wonder if you have weird things you can't explain in your house?

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Wornoutalready · 10/10/2019 19:05

Ours is that the walls are full of plastered over screws.
I don't understand it, every so often filler falls out and a screw head becomes exposed. They are everywhere though, many of them and at weird levels.

Seriously who screws at least fifty screws into the wall at all heights in multiple rooms and then fills over them and why?!

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ThePallidBustOfPallas · 10/10/2019 19:08

The noise the stairs sometimes make - as though someone is walking down them but there's nobody there. New house, no ghosties, don't believe in woo and it doesn't happen often but when it does it's a real WTF moment.

GeneHuntLover · 10/10/2019 19:15

We've lived in a rented house for almost 3 years, the owner hasn't lived in it for over 20 years yet there's some 'very important' things stored in the loft. The loft has a lock on it that we don't have a key for, the landlord lives in another country but we can't have a key because of the 'very important' things. Even our neighbour knows about the 'very important' things in the loft and that there's a lock on it

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Wornoutalready · 10/10/2019 19:17

I think that would freak me out. What's so important that it is locked in a loft and no one else can touch it but not so important that it can stay locked in the loft for 20 years and not be needed. Shock

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UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 10/10/2019 19:20

The screws are perfectly normal, they're attaching the plasterboard to the wood behind and sometimes they pop out, so you seal them, plaster over them and paint. They're especially numerous in new builds.

Velveteenfruitbowl · 10/10/2019 19:23

We have the screw thing as well. But only in one room. We have lots of things I fibd weord not being use to old houses like tiny doors that open onto the roof and fireplaces that have been sealed but all perfectly explicable.

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Wornoutalready · 10/10/2019 19:24

Oooh thank you GeneHuntLover! It is a late 1800s property so not new build but that makes sense. Would explain the different heights and amount too. I have never ever seen this anywhere else I have lived!
Thanks for solving my bafflement Grin

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AntiHop · 10/10/2019 19:26

In my daughter's bedroom, there's frequently a rattling sound in the wall. There's no rhyme or reason to it. We think it's something to do with next door's chimney.

TrueFriendsStabYouInTheFront · 10/10/2019 19:27

@GeneHuntLover I read somewhere about a landlord with a locked loft hatch, turned out he was storing the ashes of dead relatives Shock

Fuckwheresitgone · 10/10/2019 19:29

greenehunter the 'very important things' is your landlords embalmed lover!

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Wornoutalready · 10/10/2019 19:29

Apologies I meant thank you UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername for solving the screw mystery.

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Fuckwheresitgone · 10/10/2019 19:30

Oops sorry genehunter I got your name wrong, teach me not to use my glasses and try and read a tiny screen!

GeneHuntLover · 10/10/2019 19:38

Lol at these, can't think what else it could be 😁

Fstar · 10/10/2019 19:57

My sky remote pauses tv, fast forwards and rewinds on it own, nobody touching it and remote on other side of the room

WhoWants2Know · 10/10/2019 20:00

Could your sky box be responding to a neighbour's remote?

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Wornoutalready · 10/10/2019 20:10

Would that work through walls WhoWants2Know?
If I point the remote at the TV box and the cabinet door is in the way it doesn't work.

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Wornoutalready · 10/10/2019 20:10

That said our baby monitors definitely interfered with next doors.

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JulietTango · 10/10/2019 20:13

Yes, the fact that no matter how much washing I do more will always materialise overnight.
It drives me mad, it's neverending Wink

SerafinaPekkalasbroomstick · 10/10/2019 20:14

Pretty much everything in our house! I want to know why there are so many random cables everywhere.

itchyfinger · 10/10/2019 20:15

Growing up in my parents house my room would sometimes get a funny smell - not horrible, it was like cooking food, but the same smell every time. There were 3 sets of neighbours while we were living there so it wasn't someone cooking the same meal. And it wasn't bad so not a dead animal or anything. Was there 20 years and never found out what it was.

ferretygubbins · 10/10/2019 20:17

In our house there are a number of small, people shaped things that roam about, make noise and create mess. They can't be real people as it is impossible to get much sense out of them. They keep talking in made up words like "minecraft" and "pokemon". I don't know where they've come from or how to get rid of them.

PlatinumBrunette · 10/10/2019 20:18

I can help with the locked loft hatch @GeneHuntLover - I had a house I rented out and the agent told me to lock the hatch so the tenants don't use the attic. Both for storage and potentially break something. Apparently it has to do with insurances and so on. Absolutely nothing up there at all, important or not!

SirProjectofThigh · 10/10/2019 20:19

Old house - hall had no party walls. Both we and previous occupiers got a ‘spaghetti bolognese smell’ on the stairs at odd times of the day Confused

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 10/10/2019 20:20

We also get a weird cooking smell! But in our living room which is underground and doesn't connect with the neighbours kitchen or chimney in any way. And it can come at really strange times like 6am.

JulietTango · 10/10/2019 20:21

ferretygubbins I'm afraid you'll have to wait a good 25 years before they go. But they do often go of their own accord

PookieDo · 10/10/2019 20:23

I have a new build (5 years) and at night the stairs contract so loudly, I have been woken up by them (and thought burglars!)