Ok, own up! What did you lumber your buyer with?

[BluTangClan]

Much like an old car, it's got to the stage with our house where we think "do we spend loads of money fixing it all, or bodge it all and try to sell it?".

So here's the opportunity to own up to; the mould you painted over, the crack in the wall that you moved the bookcase in front of, the hob that doesn't work when the oven's on, and the iron mark on the carpet that you put the rug on top of.

We will forgive you your sins without judgement.

I thought you had to have a valid boiler service certificate to sell a house?
The only reason I say this is our seller had the system checked after they accepted our offer and the hot water tank was condemned so they had to replace it. Cost them a small fortune and we couldn’t afford to offer anything towards it as we’d sunk every penny into our forever home.

Bought! Bathroom tiles held on with sealant, shelves held on with no more nails plus some mega stuff. Lived in house for almost 20years still doing it up

An entire ROOM hidden behind plaster in the kitchen.

What type of room?

Our current house has turned out to be a bit of a bodge job. Bought from a tradesman who did all sorts of weird things.
The decor was all a bit fur coat and no knickers but most of that was easily changed. Not so the bathroom, which we couldn't afford to replace immediately - black floss tiles with sparkly bits in and lime green wet wall. We referred to it as the "radioactive bathroom".

We had a leak behind the wall which turns out must have been going for months - behind the wall was black with mould - and took out the kitchen wall below.

So we had to shower in a pod on the drive for three months while insurance was sorted out. And it's now a nice tasteful marbled colour.
Unfortunately we couldn't change the sink, which is a glossy black material which gets water spots easily and looks manky after just one use.

We also replaced the boiler with a combi and discovered the water tank was between the roof joints in the loft. We are lucky it don't come through.

Washing machine packed in a few weeks after we moved in - not good two weeks before I was due with DC.

There's also a LOT of unnecessary lighting - leds in the skirting board of the kitchen units and out on the decking. The latter was so bright I was worried about 747s heading for the nearest city mistaking our garden for a runway.

Up side is you could go for a pee at night without having to turn on the bathroom light.

Oh @SpringtimeSummertime I have dreams about this - given small house I do literally have dreams sometimes there is a secret room we have not discovered. I would not take an extra room behind the plaster as a bad thing - sounds lucky

Oh sorry @SpringtimeSummertime I see that was not your original post - sorry

can't find the original - but apologies to you

@BluTangClan

So what do you think ?

@BasiliskStare

Oh *@SpringtimeSummertime* I have dreams about this - given small house I do literally have dreams sometimes there is a secret room we have not discovered. I would not take an extra room behind the plaster as a bad thing - sounds lucky

There was a thread on here a while back about dreaming of finding secret rooms in your house! It’s quite a common dream apparently! In mine I discover that my tiny house has a whole other half which is much bigger and grander but is very dated & needs masses of work. Also a HUGE basement.

I’ve dreamt the same dream a few times and it’s more overwhelming than exciting!

Gosh @SpringtimeSummertime Ha ha I had no idea this was "A thing" - must have missed that thread but yes i have had dreams about just finding a whole bit of the house I did not know about

I wonder what Freud would say to that

I must find that thread - I thought is was just me

Thank You

Only the neighbours in our maisonettes, they weren't noisy just smelly and the smell would come up into our flat. We foamed some gaps and asked the bathroom fitter to do the same in the bathroom, but he didn't. So the smell would come up into the lovely new bathroom. They never opened the windows in their ground floor flat so it was cooking mainly deep fat frying , multiple pets, them just being in 24/7, they were renting and the landlady knew they were "vulnerable" nightmares as the council bribed her to take them with a large payment. The kids were ok to be fair. The
Oldest kid did object that I tidied their front garden before selling, I did feel bad, but I had to. You had to walk past it to get to our front door. The mum never left the house, depression so the kids were out by themselves a lot at 4 at 8.

@BasiliskStare

Gosh *@SpringtimeSummertime* Ha ha I had no idea this was "A thing" - must have missed that thread but yes i have had dreams about just finding a whole bit of the house I did not know about

I wonder what Freud would say to that

I must find that thread - I thought is was just me

Thank You

Here!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4064524-Dreams-of-hidden-extra-rooms

We've just redone our kitchen to find that the previous owners didn't plaster the walls. Floor to ceiling tiles glued to the plasterboard. Cost quite a bit to fix. The old kitchen went in the skip outside our house. The old owners complained that we'd changed it. Apparently it was custom built all those years ago & we should have kept it. 🤷🤦

thank you @SpringtimeSummertime for that link. much appreciated.

Finding more rooms that I thought we had one - yup - had that. . Sometimes it's nice in that I think - fabulous we can make a brilliant kitchen out of this ( as I recall it looked out over a beautiful stretch of sea ) , I've also had one where huge extra rooms but very creepy & haunted & often too many beds so I shut the door and thought I'll live without those rooms thanks but once utterly bizarrely dreamt I bought a house which on the 2 visits I made I had not realised was built on to the back of a multi storey car park & you were not allowed to build the back wall of the house to hide the multi storey car park - i.e. someone could nose their car into the back bedroom. - so all back rooms unusable and it was noisy. Heavens to Betsy what does that say about me.

But thank you @SpringtimeSummertime

At least it is not just me. ( well may be the car park one )

Finding a room is really strange. How is it possible to hide a room on a normal house?

I am never moving house again

Unless you want a showhome standard house to move in to, dont buy an older house surely!
Not everyone lives in a house and keeps it pristine all day every day.

When I sold my first house it was seen as we lived in it, if the bed were made that morning you'd be lucky :)
I sold it for 3 times what I bought it for. It was an old victorian terrace with not enough room to swing a cat. It was all location location location. The neighbours house has just sold for 10 times what i paid for mine ( in just 20 years). So if someone wants a house they will buy it regardless.

Ive just bought a house and fully expect to need to paint it, re carpet it and probably fix a few things. Sold as seen. I expect the boiler might stop working at some point and cupboard doors not to close tightly, but its because its been lived in.

I moved into a house where they have emigrated so the removal company packed and moved all their stuff as they flew abroad before it was finalised. They didn't empty every thing or clean anything. It was disgusting. Food in cupboards, cat hair , tissues , general rubbish everywhere. But it wasn't the removal company's job to spring clean! And they left their cat to be picked up by a friend at a later date.

BTW have you ever tied to catch a rooster or chicken or cat that was petrified of the move and decided to go walk about? Its not easy!

I think we bought a house that has issues like these.

The house looked amazing, just been renovated but the owner who bought house cheap and did up.

Fitting a socket on first day in house...plaster cracked all the way up and just fell of the bloody wall like confetti...

Electrics could have been fitted by my toddler better...the wires go diagonal in the walls so you have no idea where wires are so fitting a simple picture is bloody roulette for electric shock

Had a shower and the whole
Bath moved as only two of the four feet were secure

Open bathroom window which was broke so couldn't ever close again

The list goes on and on and on

We now hate our house, currently fixing all the dodgy mess left by previous so we can sell

Re reading some of these posts...

Some people just live in filthy messes or with bodge jobbed diy, because thats just the way they live and don't see anything wrong with it. Some folk just have higher standards!
Unless you are going to open every cupboard and try every appliance you have to expect that not everyone will have the same standard as you.

I don't think it is right however to deliberately leave something, dangerous , dishonest or vengeful thats just mean.

In our old house I knew the chimney needed some work, I had to remove the old wallpaper on the chimney breast that was holding the plaster on, filled it and put a heavily embossed pattered wallpaper over it. Also the bay window would leak . 😈

I hate those horrible buyers who knock thousands off just before sale goes through. I heard about a bloke who worked for estate agents, the day before he was due to get keys, he dropped ten grand off his offer, TAKE IT OR I WALK! huge chain all waiting. Nasty piece of work.

So we had to shower in a pod on the drive for three months while insurance was sorted out.
Wow that's a new one @EdgedInBlue Was it like a festival shower unit?

This thread is making me feel better about not quite finishing the vacuuming on our moving day. We couldn't get cleaners who'd work at the same time as the removals team so I followed them around cleaning as best I could. Then I ran out of time as they wanted in. But as far as I know, we left no surprises at all.

@ItTakesTwo121

I think we bought a house that has issues like these.

The house looked amazing, just been renovated but the owner who bought house cheap and did up.

Fitting a socket on first day in house...plaster cracked all the way up and just fell of the bloody wall like confetti...

Electrics could have been fitted by my toddler better...the wires go diagonal in the walls so you have no idea where wires are so fitting a simple picture is bloody roulette for electric shock

Had a shower and the whole
Bath moved as only two of the four feet were secure

Open bathroom window which was broke so couldn't ever close again

The list goes on and on and on

We now hate our house, currently fixing all the dodgy mess left by previous so we can sell

You need a wire and stud detector. Downside us that you can't be too reliant on them now that plastic water pipes are used. www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-truvo-digital-detector/8426t

I thought that too, but I'm not.
I just think people pay all this money for surveys when they're buying a house, which can be deceived by putting a bookcase over a massive crack on the wall along with all the assumptions about roof condition etc.
How do you get around the survey picking up a completely flooded cellar? Simply lock the door.

I always think you should be able to test drive a house by staying in it for a couple of nights before spending half a million on something you want to move out of after a year.

^ That was supposed to quote the person who said my first post said it sounded like I was fishing for the Daily Mail.