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To The People Who Owned My House Before Me I Would Just Like To Ask

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MintyyAeroEgg · 30/03/2009 21:18

Why, why, why, when the kitchen measures 25ft by 12ft, you chose to confine the kitchen area (all the units and appliances) to about 1/3 of the available space, and devote the remaining 2/3 to a dining area - which you chose to CARPET in dark green carpet. I just cannot get my head round what you were thinking of, you silly silly silly twunts.

Anyone else?

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CalamitouslyWrong · 25/06/2014 11:07

I'd like to ask the previous owners of this house what exactly they have against daylight.

Why would anyone put 15W (not energy saving and therefore equivalent to something that will light a room) bulbs in every single light fitting?

Given the dinginess created, why did you think various shades of dark brown was the right decorating choice?

Why would you brick up the window in the kitchen then install a dark wood effect kitchen with black granite worktop and black tiles on both floor and walls? And why would you think that a single 15W bulb in the middle of the ceiling would be sufficient to light it?

Why would you pay for a granite worktop but not ensure that the hob was fitted properly in to it? The hob was fitted so that it was right against the back wall, and was therefore a fire hazard. Because the hole was cut in the wrong place, it meant the whole worktop had to be scrapped.

Why would you think that cupboards hanging off the walls such that you could out your whole arm down the back of them at the top were correctly fitted?

Why would you install a fancy new bathroom but not bother to seal the bath so that water would destroy the kitchen ceiling below?

Why would you decide to self-convert your garage into the most awful room imaginable? And, since you thought that was a good idea, why would you accentuate the slope on the garage floor rather than compensating for it? Why wouldn't you fill in the huge hole under the double glazing unit you fitted which meant that water got under the steeply sloping floor you installed and was rotting it? Obviously we can totally understand why you didn't apply for planning permission or involve building regs in this, as they'd have laughed in your face.

Did you think the gas meter was a design feature for the new 'bedroom' you created? Why would you plats oats over the gas pipes making the whole thing incredibly unsafe? Why would you simply cut a jagged hole in the plasterboard so that the stopcock would stick out?

Why would you leave the double glazing in such a mess that the inside of the glass became etched to the extent to which it became opaque? The neighbours (and everyone else, including us) just thought you were filthy types who never cleaned the windows, but actually you just couldn't see out of them.

Why on earth would you get an architect to draw up plans and then secure planning permission for the world's most ill-advised extension to the bak of the house. It would make the kitchen and the back reception room entirely internal and simply corridors for getting to the really absurdly designed extension. We can totally see why you opted to move rather than to destroy the house entirely by building that yourselves.

Ikea pax wardrobes are really easy to fit. How did you manage to make such an arse of it? Why did you cut out some notches from both wardrobes in the alcoves of the master bedroom so that you could fit a huge radiator on the chimney breast. The chimney breast is a stupid place for a radiator, especially if it's wider than the chimney breast and encroaches into the wardrobe.

Why did you remove the plaster from the wall before fitting the wardrobes in the back bedroom? They would still have fitted with the plaster there and you wouldn't have made such an enormous mess,

Did you think underlay was some kind of unnecessary extravagance and something you could just leave out when getting new carpet?

Why didn't you remove the enormous boxing in constructed out of plywood in the corner of the back bedroom when you fitted a combi boiler and removed the hot water tank it housed? And, more pertinently, why was the only thing to be found inside the huge box a 21st birthday card and two Viagra tablets? Our surveyor laughed.

Did you really think the lion door knocker was tasteful?

So many questions.

Boomerwang · 02/07/2014 12:25

This was what our oven looked like when we moved in to this house. I tried to get the landlord to clean it but it took so damn long that I just did it myself with the help of two others. It still took over two hours between us, as the inside was thick with black grease and the hobs had a black scummy ring around them which we had to shift with sugar cubes and scrapers.

Disgusting.

Also had a rubber hose with a spray gun attached to the tap in the downstairs toilet... what the hell?

To The People Who Owned My House Before Me I Would Just Like To Ask
To The People Who Owned My House Before Me I Would Just Like To Ask
CaptChaos · 03/07/2014 20:33

A house I moved into about 15 years ago:

Why, when almost no natural light got into it, did you paint the hallway and stairs dark blue?

Why did you leave all the other wall paper on the walls in every room? Why on earth would you 'paper' on whole wall of the living room with fablon? Wasn't that expensive? It certainly took effort to remove!

Why did you attach a dado rail to the living room walls made up of several mismatched off cuts using no nails? It took a foot wide chunk of plaster off with it when I removed it, which meant I had to replaster the jeffing walls, having already removed the jeffing Fablon and layers of paper from them!!!

Why did you think that wallpaper paste was a good choice to attach your pornographic posters to the walls of what was going to be my DC's room?

Why did you write yours and your children's names into the hideous Spanish plaster stuff in the bathroom? I had to sand the walls back before I could tile them, because you also forgot to put any tiles up at all.

Why, if you knew your several hundred cats had pissed all over it, did you leave the carpet down in the living room? Thanks so much for the plague-like number of fleas which hatched the first night we had the heating on as well, DC2 aged 3 months looked like he had smallpox after the bites which he is allergic to.

Lara2 · 04/08/2014 08:50

My first house 30 years ago:

Why did you think it was ok to leave a fecking car engine in the attic and remove the wooden hatch, replacing it with the broken, heavy smoked glass table top?

Thanks for putting the shower behind the bathroom door, next to the airing cupboard with NO waterproofing at all. We couldn't afford to replace it and I hate baths.

Thanks for leaving the cat flap unlocked when you left letting every cat in a 200 mile radius and their bloody fleas in. The whole house was jumping with the little bastards and had to be napalmed!

Why did you think that black ceiling beams were a good look in a small Victorian terrace in the knocked through downstairs room. It took untold hours and layers of white paint to cover them up because we couldn't afford to replace the ceiling.

Thanks for the pink bathroom suite.

FickleUsernameChooser · 04/08/2014 15:19

Why did you partition off a small portion of the kitchen and place a toilet in there?

Why did you decorate the walls of said toilet like this?

To The People Who Owned My House Before Me I Would Just Like To Ask
3of5 · 05/08/2014 11:53

Dear previous owner.

Yes. I know we saw the house and we were won over by it's potential. However, I'm still going to complain about:

The lack of cleaning:

Cleaning up another mans piss from around the toilet still makes my stomach churn.

The oven had to be chucked out as it was a relic from the 1970's and hadn't been cleaned since then.

And everything was just... Sticky.

The decor:

My lovely SIL described the main bathroom as 'pink, but like someone has tried to dissolve a body in it with acid'. The graduated pink bathroom suite. Words fail me. They failed me even less when we found out it was fitted in 2002. It's still in situ. Gold taps and all. And wall tiles that are weird. We haven't changed it as we can't afford to right now, and I also like showing people the hideousness of it all.

So so many pelmets. So many.

Ditto vertical blinds.

And textured fucking wallpaper. In EVERY room. We only have two ceilings and one room left to strip. It's been a long journey but I might have a party when I take off the last strip.

Fitted cupboards everywhere. Most of them have been ripped out now. Just like most of the plants from the back and front garden.

But, I love this house. It's my home. Grin

PuntCuffin · 05/08/2014 17:02

Why did you paint the downstairs loo deep purple and allow your drunken teenage sons to stagger in from the hot tub which you abandoned in the middle of the patio to urinate all over the untreated pine boxing in the pipework? The room was so dark and stinking my sons wouldn't go in there.

Why did you abandon the hot tub in the middle of the patio to ruin the view of the garden instead of putting it to one side? And thanks for leaving the filthy water and uncleaned filters in it [boak].

Why did you not discover that the downstairs shower has been leaking for many years so that the entire bedroom floor has had to be ripped up, and the utility room floor and the palster has all had to removed, just to try to get it dried out? And is now costing us a fortune to put right and massive upheaval, and my cat has left home over it. Actually, you did know, judging by the towels stuffed underneath to soak up the water and disguise the problem so you could sell the place. Arseholes.

Why did you allow your daughter to repaint the bedroom in black paint after accepting our offer? Is this why you suddenly went non-contact until just before completion and wouldn't let us visit. We're still trying to cover it over despite your dodgy effort with some cheap gloopy Homebase one (ha!) coat paint.

How many cups of tea and bright pink nail polish did you pour over the bedroom carpet between accepting our offer and us moving in?

Why did you spend so much money spending a fortune on extensions and other expensive work on the house but then not bother to maintain any of it?

ElizabethArdenGreenTeax · 05/08/2014 17:04

ha!

here i go

The junk in behind the shed, when I'd asked that the shed be cleared?! That was classy.

beachyhead · 05/08/2014 17:13

Why didn't you take your stained mattress to the tip instead of throwing it over the fence into the hedge?

Notsureaboutthisusername · 05/08/2014 17:14

Why did you carpet the bath?

Why did you install a Jacuzzi bath if you'd decided it was too dangerous to have electrics in the bathroom so it couldn't be used (and also never clean it so the first time I tried it I was covered in black slime)?

Why did you steal all the light switches?

Why oh why did you pretend it was a conservatory when actually it's a wall with a French window next to it which you then wallpapered above so it looked like a proper wall (it was a plank of wood)?

Notsureaboutthisusername · 05/08/2014 17:14

Oh and why leave a floater in the bog??

Goldrill · 05/08/2014 17:17

Why did you put your pictures up with no more nails?

Maryz · 05/08/2014 17:21

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Blueuggboots · 05/08/2014 17:37

Thank you for the Dualit toaster, bottle of wine and new towels you left us.

No it didn't make up for the fact that you'd forgotten to mention that the flat was positioned above a family who were responsible for the local crime wave who made my life a misery, torched my car and threatened to kill me.....

teejayem · 08/08/2014 09:50

Why did you feel the need to smoke what I assume were around 1000 cigarettes a day, primarily in the bath, thus leaving nicotine stains an inch thick around all the bathroom fixtures?

Also, why did you choose to remove the hall light fitting, plaster (very badly) over the hole in the ceiling, (And the electrical lead) and leave a pointless light switch in place, in a dark hall.....

And why did you plaster over alcove shelves in the lounge, and their contents leaving us to find back issues of Hustler, Viz & the Sun dating somewhere between 1988 and 2001 (Among other more unsavoury items) when we tore the wall down?!

emummy · 08/08/2014 09:56

Did you ever pick up your dog's poos from the garden? We moved in 2 days after you left and picked up 30!!
And thanks for covering your kids' lovely pen drawings on the walls with furniture - such a nice surprise on moving day.

And did you actually pass your building course at college? Cos you left behind some horrifically bad DIY - squint curtain poles, holes at the edges of flooring, etc etc
Thanks!

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