To ask for another annoying things about other peoples homes thread?

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This one two years ago made my christmas... can we have another? 🎄 🙏

This thread is just a thinly disguised pop at the in-laws.

Having e-coli in your water supply but refuringvyk fix it and assuring guests it will be fine if boiled.

Refusing to fix it

I've never heard of a "designated drinking tap" because in the UK tap water is safe to drink.
People who have installed water softeners have to have a designated drinking tap.

Dirty bathrooms
Dirty kitchens

No milk, but they don't tell you until after they've made the coffee or tea.

The no books comments says more about those saying it. People can be educated or like to read without any visable display you can see. Tbh, I only buy very special books now, that are stored in my office. Otherwise I use my kindle. It is better for the environment. Which is more important than looking clever to visitors.

Unless you live in a mansion you are going notice if a guest has gone to the toilet surely ? If not then may I suggest a piece of wall art proclaiming 'sing, sing, shit' for your bathroom wall? No need for a lock then

Don't have to live in a mansion - just have more than one room, or have a large group, and you've no clue where people have gone.

Ive just realised we have one that people must hate. We have a very oddly designed one bedroom flat where the bathroom has a door to go in one side and then another door to go out into our bedroom and neither door has a lock. If you open both doors and the door between our bedroom and the lounge you can run around in a full circle

I’m sure guests must worry that someone could burst in on them from either door but no ones ever said anything

I hate houses with the heating on, we never have ours on so I suppose thats why we don't have visitors

How, just how can you not have heating on???

If it makes you feel any better Proudboomer I find my own mother’s habit of covering any flat horizontal surface with a slippery cloth equally annoying. Her house is festooned with mats, towels and bits of pointless lace.

i once burnt myself standing next to my MILs radiator.

@LyndaSnellsSniff

MIL has her bedside radio blasting all night. With her bedroom door wide open. Even before FIL died they had Radio 5 bellowing out at all hours. Now, it's company for her. Years ago in the middle of the night I asked DH if he could go and close her bedroom door but he wouldn't. 😩

Oh god the radios at my in laws! A radio on in every bloody room with each one on a different station They have one in their room which comes on at 6am on a sunday blasts english hymnals. It does not fill me with the peace of Christ.

@1hamwich4

If it makes you feel any better Proudboomer I find my own mother’s habit of covering any flat horizontal surface with a slippery cloth equally annoying. Her house is festooned with mats, towels and bits of pointless lace.

Any netted curtains? They make my blood boil. 😂

We were once told our home would look like a show home were it not for our dogs. I like a tidy home, with books but not knick knacks. Our cleaner comes four times a week, our windows are open every morning until lunchtime to air our bed and get fresh air in the house. So our house is cold until lunchtime every day. I WFH so wear multiple layers until we close the windows. I don't mind because I hate stale air and stuffy homes. If we have guests we do ensure the house is warm though. To each their own....

At DB's:

Conservatory with cat litter trays x2 stinks of cat piss, they have gone nose blind.

Others generally;

Houses where windows never opened - feel damp and musty, I hate this, makes me feel like I don't want to sit down anywhere

PIL:

Hand towel always damp. Always! And no bathroom bin! And no plug sockets anywhere helpful!

Friend:

Your house is FREEEEEEZING!

SIL;

The (very posh) display toiletries thy have been on the same bathroom shelf for 8teats unopened!

In response I reckon they'd say to me;

Too warm
Too messy
Too many stairs
You let the cat on the bed?!
Do you never hoover?! (dark very short pile carpet shows every single bloody speck of dust and I've given up hoovering five times a day)!

I'm not getting the posters who say this thread is snobbish.

Not that they are ever specific about what they find offensive.

sunglassesonthetable on the rare occasion we do visit my MIL’s she makes a huge deal about having put the heating on for us- she doesn’t use it much as a rule so this is thoughtful.

However because she doesn’t really heat her house, all the walls are cold through and through. The practical upshot of putting the heating on is that it goes straight from the radiators into the fabric of the house, without heating any of the airspace inside.

It’s quite an efficient system so the boiler increases the effort its expending in response to the thermostat telling it the house is cold.

Thus we have the situation where the radiators are scalding hot but the rooms are freezing, and it is possible to burn oneself whilst simultaneously being really quite cold.

By the morning of the end of our visit, the walls have warmed to the point where the radiators start heating the rooms instead of burning the unwary passer-by, and things get quite comfortable.

This is, of course, when the heating is switched off again...because we are going home.

One day soon I am going to sit her down and have a talk about looking after herself more because she’s getting on a bit now and simply needs to start being a bit more sensible about heating and stuff.

I feel sorry that anyone cannot afford to hear their home, it seems a basic necessity for comfort. It's sleeting outside, just above freezing and with a sharp wind. If you're sitting in an unheated home, that's awful.

heat

No hand towels in the bathroom,why oh why and these are bathrooms that have towel rails in,its like people think they're there just for ornament?!

We have a bathroom bin and a bathroom recycling bin! The empty plastic bottles, toothpaste tubes, product boxes and toilet roll tubes all go in the recycling! It saddens me to read how many people just put theirs in the rubbish bin!

So:
Lack of recycling facilities in house
Vertical blinds - is your house an office?
Strip lighting, e.g. in kitchen - flickers too much
Aggressive LED lights
Aggressively bright frantic flashing xmas lights
Beige
smell of meat/cooking ingrained in everything
Never open windows - air starts to feel deoxygenated
Plastic seat/carpet covers
Too hot
Plastic plants!