To be raging

[MaMaD1990]

Partner and I moved house not long ago and we noticed the upstairs toilet was blocked. A day or so later we found a printed note hidden in the bathroom cupboard saying 'toilet blocked, can be used for solid waste, everything else use other toilet please, thank you'. There were a few of these notes left around the house for various things (extra lightbulbs etc) so we think the movers may have put the note away by accident or something instead of leaving it out. Anyway, I phone to tell the solicitor because if the seller had the time to type and print a note, she could have picked up the phone and either A. Got a plumber over to fix it and/or B. Picked up the phone to let us know (the last thing you need is having to fix a toilet when your moving home!). I get a plumber out (he says we need a new toilet because its full of limescale - gross) and i send his £60 bill to the solicitor to pass on to the previous owners solicitor to see if she'll pay. We get a response back today saying she won't pay and insists it wasn't blocked when she moved!!!! Luckily, cynical old me kept the note so I've taken a photo of it and asked my solicitor to forward it on in the hopes of it jogging the previous sellers memory and she can pay up.

My solicitor said if I want to take it further I can but the cost of getting her to pay up will far outweigh what we want her to pay. I obviously am not going down this route but God if I had money to burn I bloody would just to teach her a lesson 😂

AIBU to be so annoyed at this??

Get s new toilet and chill.
60£ is what % of the price you paid?

£60 for a new toilet to be fitted? where i live plumbers don't come out for less than £75 labour for first hour! Not helpful sorry! I don't think £60 is much to pay and the hassle isn't worth it for anyone.

No not £60 for a new toilet (I wish!), that was his bill for taking 15 minutes to look at it and tell me its knackered haha. I know its not a lot of money, I think its just the principle. I would've just tried to get it fixed or let the new buyer know if it were me so I think that's why I'm so pissed. That and she's outright lied about it. Blergh, some people.

I see. That would annoy me too

Yeh it s snnoying but you have another toilet.
Save your energy

When we moved into our new house the fridge was broken, the dishwashernpissed water all over the floor, they'd left a rusty old bbq in the garden and a garage full 0f their old crap.

Solicitors said we could take them to small claims court for the costs.

Chalk it up to some people are wankers, hope they don't breed, and move on

Jeez...I need to count myself lucky! I don't understand why people can't just do the right bloody thing.

Find out her new address and dump the old loo in her garden!
She knew fine well it was broken.

If you had any removable white goods included in the sale and these were found not to be working, you would have a case.

But the toilet is part of the fixtures and therefore I am pretty sure you are going to get nowhere with this. Unless you have in your legal paperwork a declaration that the toilet was working and unblocked, but this is not something I have come across before.

toilet blocked, can be used for solid waste, everything else use other toilet please, thank you'.

I'd be annoyed to OP.
However the note, as you typed it, makes no sense to me. It reads like you can poo in it (solid waste) but not wee or flush it?
Also what is the everything else referring to? Surely there are only two options for what goes down the loo.

Thanks @Aprilx. I'm not going to the it further because frankly its not worth the money or effort. Its the fact she's printed a note but then when faced with a bill, she's lied so she doesn't have to pay for something she should.

@TableCat oops, my bad. I meant to type 'can be used for NON-solid waste'. Must proof read before hitting send...basically you can't have a poo but a wee is acceptable. I would say even that is risky with how close it gets to the top 😅

YABU for raging. Yes - it's quite clear that the seller is a bit shitty and underhand.
However, other than shouting IT'S NOT FAIR - what a MEANY - as for actual actions you can take now:

• waste more time/money/energy on this horrid woman with solicitors and court actions
• start with buying a nice new loo for xmas. First step into transforming the house to be exactly as you want it.

You might be able to reduce the limescale build up with a strong acid, called spirit of salts.

Turn off the water to the cistern, and use a big sponge to remove the water sitting in the lavatory bowl. Bung the spirit of salts in, leave for an hour or so, then turn the water back on, shut the lid, and flush a few times, then give it a good scrub with a lavatory brush.

Be very careful - it's really strong and you don't want to get it on your skin, so wear long rubber gloves and old clothes. (When I did this at a flat I rented for a while, I put an old cagoule on as well in case I splashed it on myself)

You can buy spirit of salts in places like Screwfix and plumber's merchants, and you might need to do it a few times to get rid of all the scale, but it worked a treat on the lav I used it on.

@LakieLady thank you so much! I've shoved a few bottles of limescale remover down the loo which has helped somewhat but will definitely give this a go!

@eightxmaspaws I hear you! Thankfully we have another loo whilst we save to replace the other one!

Are you sure it’s not a blockage down the pipe or in the drain. Have you lifted the manhole cover it feeds in to? Our toilet was doing that, filling right up when you flushed, and it was a blocked drain.

Doesn't seem much point kicking up a fuss now "for the principle". You've already bought the place.

Did you not have the house checked over before you moved in?

My seller left lots of crap in the house (including actual cat crap AND the cat!), they had taken the door off the garage and taken most of the lightbulbs. Fuckers!

Some people are just shit.

Aren't houses sold-as-seen?

I think I used hydrochloric acid once when I moved in to a place. The toilet looked worse than something on an advert. It sparkled once I finished with it.

Caveat emptor.

Return the contents of the blocked toilet to their new property. After all, you'd hate for them to have left anything behind

Houses are sold as seen, and all houses tend to have jobs that need doing (unless they are brand new). To be honest unless it was something major (like the ceiling had caved in) I'm not sure I'd bother to pay out money to fix things for a new purchaser either.

We once moved into a house where the previous owner was so tight that they had taken all the lightbulbs out to take with them.

Small claims court?