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

291 replies

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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FairyCCTaleEnding · 30/03/2009 22:30

hassled I think you may have bought my house ...

Aerial sockets predated me, so can't explain, but witch next door ... well, wouldn't you have said the same?!

Tommy · 30/03/2009 22:30

why did you leave your stash of porn mags behind the pipework in my bathroom?

yuk

FAQinglovely · 30/03/2009 22:30

no just meant I had even more trouble reaching the top shelf of my kitchen cupboards

UnquietDad · 30/03/2009 22:31

Is anyone else thinking already that this should go into Classics ?

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 22:34

where do i start?

did you know that your children wrote apologies to you in various places over the house ( on the walls!)

did you not believe in underlay?

when you said you had not had the gas fire serviced - why not just say 'It doesn't work'

did your children never moan that the top floor where they all slept was ARCTIC whilst your floor was toasty warm?

how many lost balls can a family have - i swear we must have found 20 in the garden!

robino · 30/03/2009 22:34

I hope you have learned how to fix things without resorting to using "no more nails" sticky stuff to fix EVERYTHING, I'm pretty sure even the manufacturers would be surprised at some idiot using it to stick up hinges.

And why did you decide it was a good idea to run all the plumbing from the new extension at the back of the house UPHILL under the rest of the house rather than simply running it out of the back? Gravity works wonders with helping skanky water run into the drain rather than sitting in a pipe under the living room....

treedelivery · 30/03/2009 22:34

Hysterical.

FAQinglovely · 30/03/2009 22:36

oh god I've just thought of another one from YEARS ago when I was a kid

Why did you paint the kitchen BRIGHT red, with bright yellow ceiling?

And why did you paint the smallest bedroom in green and blue - again very bright. But oh no this wasn't just green and blue. Everything was painted, the door, the door frame, the window sill, the skirting boards, even the frigging light switch, and no you couldn't just do "top half" (including ceiling) blue, and bottom half green, oh no that wasn't enough for you was it? Instead you had to paint little "childlike" trees and shrubs jutting into the blue all away round the room.

And I had to sleep in that room like that for 4yrs - my poor parents couldn't afford to redecorate the entire house to rid it of your hideous decorating. And my room, being the youngest child, came last - so never got done.

katz · 30/03/2009 22:36

why did you only have one real plug socket in the living room all the rest we're from various multi-plug running from it?

Why did you just tile over the tiles in the bathroom, once i could possibly understand but 3 layers of tiles?

Why was there only 1 wire coming from the fusebox? the whole house's electric all running from ONE fuse

Why put built in wardrobe in the master bedroom that only a child's clothes could be hung up in?

Why did you not invest in a wallpaper stripper? every room had at least 3 layers of wallpaper if not more

What were you thinking with the living room and stairs carpets?

UnquietDad · 30/03/2009 22:37

This is going to end up as a Grauniad article.

Bleatblurt · 30/03/2009 22:38

Oh and why was the main BT phone thingy in the master bedroom? Was that so you'd have privacy on the internet in front of your porn mirror?

Really got to get rid of that mirror.

FAQinglovely · 30/03/2009 22:38

oh yes - and previous tenants/owners of this house - why are there no less than 6 (that I've counted so far?) phone sockets in the house. Well there are now 7 because I had Virgin installed and all of the others were either old and defunct or BT Confused

kittykat21 · 30/03/2009 22:42

Why was every single room painted bright yellow? took ages to repaint!!!

Why was the 2nd bedroom door/skirting boards/window sill painted in dark blue gloss?

Why is there a light with no light switch?!

Why were bits of carpet missing downstairs? Although now have laminate, much nicer.

Why is there a picture of a big pig in a bathtub on our bathroom tiles? looks ridiculous!

kitkatqueen · 30/03/2009 22:43

Why oh why did you leave silver builders safety hat and very large pair of blue pants in a box in the loft??? I mean seriously - what kind of weird fetish do you have??

kitkatqueen · 30/03/2009 22:47

And!!!!!! WTF does that light switch do???? I've been here 9 years and I still can't figure it out!!!!!

HarryJoesMummy · 30/03/2009 22:53

Why did you paper the main bedroom in white vinyl wallpaper with red and green diagonal stripes and the occasional red or green apple shape?

Why did you not tell us that the bathroom plaster was in pieces, so when we took the bathroom wallpaper off, half the wall came off too?

Why the woodchip on the living room ceiling, which took a solid week to steam off?

Did you not realise that an implement called the spirit level had been invented, to help you put up things like curtain poles straight?

Oh, and thanks for hiding a huge bright pink nail varnish stain under the sofa in the living room when we came to view the house. It was a lovely surprise when we came to move in

Quattrocento · 30/03/2009 22:55

Oh and the other thing, why did you develop a plug socket fetish? I mean it is nice to have lots of plug sockets, but it's not necessary to have ten in every bedroom. Also why are all the extra plug sockets at waist height?

TheSynOddOneOfWhitby · 30/03/2009 22:56

Maybe KitKat21's switchless light needs KitKatQueen's light switch.

BananaFruitBat · 30/03/2009 22:58

Why didn't you clean out the gutters?

How the hell did you cope with rain water pouring down the inside of the window?

Califrau · 30/03/2009 22:59

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MintyyAeroEgg · 30/03/2009 23:00

Ooooooh am liking the sound of that diagonal stripe/apple wallpaper HJM.

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Stayingsunnygirl · 30/03/2009 23:02

Dh viewed (but strangely didn't buy) a flat that not only had purple carpet on the bathroom floor and up the side of the bath, but up the walls and across the ceiling too!!!

Notalone · 30/03/2009 23:07

Why did you block off the drainage in the garden with concrete just so you could engrave your names and the year you moved in. I am sure it was ver romantic but it caused the fecking house to flood everytime it rained.

Why was the ugly mahogany bed built into both the walls and the even uglier wardrobes so we could not put our own bed in without demolishing the whole bloody thing? Why didn't you tell the bloody bed was built in when you heard us talking about our lovely bed that we couldn't wait to put in that room. Oh, and why were both the lamps and the clock radio also built into the wall so they could not ever be removed or even unplugged. WHY???

Why did you hide the lack of oven door with a cleverly draped tea towel when we came to look at the house? We only discovered this when we actually moved in and went to cook dinner. Oh and why didn't you tell me the oven was on its last legs and only one of the hobs worked?

Why, oh why was the interior the shower made partly of wood. Wood ROTS you stupid stupid idiots? Especially when wet.

What gave you the idea to put brown long pile carpet in the hallway with mint green woodchip walls? Was like a giant mint choc chip icecream and it did not look good ok?

Why did you let your dogs piss all over the carpet in the lounge. When we removed the carpet it was that bad it had rotted the wood underneath?

Why did you never clean your kitchen cupboards so me and a friend had to spend a whole evening scrubbing them to get rid of the brown sticky stains?

What went through your head when you decided to get arty and paint the kitchen cupboards blue with flowers on the handles. After the expense of rest of the house we couldn't afford to replace the kitchen.

Why did you not have any carpet in your DC's room aside from a manky rug. Oh, and why did you leave all their posters behind? Was it perhaps to cover the holes in the walls.

Phew - think thats it. My god I hated those people when I moved in!

hatwoman · 30/03/2009 23:12

loving this thread.

why did you keep your porn stash in that bit of cellar that was basically a rubble-filled hole in the ground?

did you know that we've still got the plastic shark that we found behind the radiator? it's taken on a slightly iconic status. it would be bad luck to throw it away.

why, given that the kitchen is a nice size and could have been a divided up into a comfortable kitchen-breakfast/play-room type scenario did you so unimaginatively put units round three walls making it look all lumpish and, well, unimaginative?

why did you let the kitchen installer box in the plug for the hob extrator and light meaning that when the fuse blew we had to knock a hole in the hood (which is now nicely covered by children's art work?)

NotanOtter · 30/03/2009 23:15

thanks for leaving the cellar full of crap when it was in the contract not to - and you pointed this clause out o us and 'still' did it

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