Bloody old houses and bloody old ladies
Myself and Mrs Judge bought our first house about 4 years ago, an old Victorian terraced house. In the last four years we've had to -

1. Remove a huge wall next to our stairs (and which also made up the back bedroom wall) because the wall consisted of a ton of bricks with a base of wood. Which was pulling the stairs down on one side because of course a wood base isnt strong enough to hold up a ton of bricks if built incorrectly. Why they didnt put bricks all the way to the floor is beyond me :)

2. Remove and replace the stairs because the dodgy wall had knackered them.

3. Replace all the plaster because it had blown. In every room.

4. The stupid bitch who lived there for 20 years before us had put an extension on the kitchen but this extension prevents access to the drainage on either side of the roof, and the stupid twats who put it in didnt care that those drains might get blocked and overflow. Which causes the roof to leak when it pisses down. The only way to repair this is to replace the entire kitchen roof which im not going to do. Incompetent wankers.

5. Said stupid old bitch had had damp proof done 10 years before but lost the paperwork so we knocked a grand off the price to cover the work which she complained about, and it was her fault

Tip to peeps buying old houses - check everything, plaster, woodwork, dampproofing, flooring, wiring, and I mean everything. It will save you grief in the long run.
(thejudge2007, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 10:12, 2 replies)

Number 1
Maybe they ran out of bricks before they reached the bottom?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 10:15, closed)

yes
I think they may have :)
(thejudge2007, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 10:19, closed)