My house
.. is a DIY disaster. The people who lived here before had the enthusiasm - unfortunately not backed by the talent.

To date I have found the following:

Living room door too narrow for the hole, by about 2"
Kitchen units not attached to anything - if you pull out a drawer they overbalance and fall over.
Kitchen work surfaces just balancing on the units.
Kitchen plumbing is that cheap grey stuff you get from Wickes. The joints are only pushed together.
Kitchen plug sockets all wonky.
Downstairs toilet door only able to be locked from the outside with a MASSIVE hook and eye arrangement.
Utility room plug sockets (three of them) all wonky. One hanging off the wall.
Very amateurish and cheap laminate flooring in the hall. None of the edging strips fitted properly, so they move around and fall off with the slightest movement.
All the door frames in the house are crooked, the worst one has one side at least an inch and a half higher than the other.
Replacement bathroom "fitted" by them - again with the cheap crap pipes. The pipe feeding hot water to the basin kinked and only let a dribble of water pass through. The bath panel about half an inch too narrow, so it gapes away from the top of the bath.
Plug sockets in two of the bedrooms hanging off the wall.
Far too many shelves welded to the walls with a combination of screws and No More Nails or whatever the stuff is called.

To top it all, when we moved in we found that all the curtain rails had been removed.

These people need to be lined up against a wall and shot.



Edit: and my contribution to the bodge job that is this house - keeping the living room door shut with an old towel wrapped around the handles to wedge it closed.
(Freakmandu, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 4:37, 9 replies)

That grey plastic water pipe?
The stuff that uses "push fit" connectors?
( SteamedCleaner, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 4:56, closed)

Thats the ones - except the push fit connectors dont fit. You push them on, they fall off.
(Freakmandu, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 17:57, closed)

Did you buy the house...
...or is it a rental?
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 7:22, closed)

Its rental - the landlord is trying to get them to pay for the place to be sorted.
(Freakmandu, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 17:57, closed)

most people
go to look at a house before they move in.
(Figmaus, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 8:46, closed)

I did - what I didnt do was check out the plumbing under the sink, try and move the kitchen around a bit "just in case", check the plug sockets hidden behind washing machines and under beds, take a spirit level to check the door frames, kick the laminate floor around a bit.. etc, you get the picture.
(Freakmandu, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 17:55, closed)

Haaaa! You should try being an autism.
It makes surveying a fucking doddle!
;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 13 Mar 2011, 20:11, closed)

The
The towel bit rings a bell. Good to know that the idea is(was?) being used elsewhere.
(Ymob is a kaburu, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 9:09, closed)

The bath side panel isn't too narrow
The bath feet are set too high. When you install a bathtub you adjust the feet so it fits the side panel you've got.
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 10:24, closed)