How broken is your house? Make me feel better.

Most of those are minimal Hassel.

I finished the plastering and decorating then the next day the lighting went. No idea where the issue is and can't access from above so total rewire of the lights.

Cue double angle grinder up each and every newly plastered wall for the wire runs from the floor.

The floor remains uninsulated.

I pulled a bit of tarmac out round the door step to plant some flowers, discover there is a 300mm void under the step which is effectively cantilevered off the wall with no idea how it has been or even is attached.

In all honesty the electrics are mostly pre-war but replacement as a whole is cost prohibitive. Just make do with spits and spots replaced as needed. Having the dishwasher and oven on at the same time would be nice.
Small garden i have needs major work.
Bathroom was done, but a wet room would be an ideal future investment.

You bloody fairy. I'm £40k down and I've got damp problems that give me sleepless nights still. 9 years on.

And I don't even have a kitchen, just a damp hole where a kitchen should be.

I've a nice watch and two cars though.

I could make a start this weekend, or I could ride my bike.

Last year sometime I was on the beach about to pack up my kitesurfing kit, I said to my mate I had to go to do some house stuff (can’t even remember what it was). He replied with “Will anything bad happen if you don’t?” I carried on kitesurfing the rest of the day.

House stuff now rarely takes priority, we do have a bit of a list though.

I live in a van.

My biggest current concern is getting the MOT (German equivalent at) done in a month's time.

Life is cheap.

Just remember you're a long time dead 😉 Contrast and context always kept our house up together the complete opposite of our neighbours gardens a mess don't reckon he's ever had the windows cleaned he's happier working on the 3 old pile of crap cars he's got 🙄 🙄
2 houses have sold or up for sale in our road recently. One an old lady who hadn't / wasn't able to keep up or modernise the other has been rented for a few years . That one has had rewiring , new roof all gas up together etc etc as needed to rent ready to move in ..The old lady's house is being gutted and worked on for the last month yet hers sold for £5K more than the other one is on the market for 🤔
So from that I conclude if you did all those jobs and kept yours up together is it worth any more ?
Food for thought on your ride this weekend 😁

The list at my old house was a lot, lot longer than that!

I moved house (genuinely)!! 🤣🤣

Mainly because after 27yrs in the same house I was ruddy bored of working on it. I needed new walls to paint.

My OH quit her job in December, went traveling for 2 months then came back and started DIYing.

To her credit she's re-decorated 3 bedrooms (almost) solo (I only have to do the heavy lifting, plumbing and electrics).

And we've agreed the garden we'll pay someone to build the raided bed and patio in the front garden, and lay the concrete shed base.

And last night I only had to move 256kg (yes, I'm sad, I counted it) of rubble from one end of the garden to the other.

My biggest gripe is her absolute lack of any ability to project manage. I can get over the £50 I spent on materials to de-moss and re-seed the lawns. I'm pissed off that it took a weekend of hard work out of my life that could have been spent doing something fun and now she wants to patio over it. Similarly she's paid a tree surgeon to come and take down a small leylandi type tree, from the summerhouse area, which would have taken minutes to cut down and the builder could have dug the roots out anyway.

That, and when left to her own devices she either get's bored, falls out with, or gets pally with tradesmen. The shear number of jobs that get left half done boils my piss.
- New doors hung, except they didn't do any of the filling/making good they were supposed to (and some are simply hung really badly).
- New bathroom has a big area that's untiled bare concrete behind the sink, fitter offered to fix it but "no it's fine, we can sort that" (no we can't, not without ripping out the entire fitted sink/cupboard/toilet unit).
- Her coked up friend from school who took 3.5 days to plaster 6 ceilings and then billed 5 full days + materials (he didn't turn up Monday, had to be coaxed into doing more than one ceiling a day, and considered coming round to tidy up and collect his stuff on Friday and drop of the invoice a days work. And did a crap job.

Pretty much identical.
Except the tumble drier which died ages ago and I won’t be replacing, it’s cheaper to use the local laundry one.

Four items get added to my list for every one that I remove.

I live in rural Croatia..... Bought a fally down rambling old farm 10 years ago. Put a new roof on it when we moved in and made some windows both of which are not finished 10 years later but it's dry (if the wind doesn't blow while it's raining) and warm...... My business workshops are very 'al fresco' and all the outbuildings are ongoing building sites.

It's all certainly more fally down then when we got here but, well, **** it.... Spend 9 months of the year outside anyway and it's a house that works for our families needs. It's our home, we are all happy and healthy and that's what matters.

I gave up making lists years ago and now just fix things when they are totally broken....

No idea where the issue is and can’t access from above so total rewire of the lights.

Putting that one off really but it's hiding waiting to jump out on me again

My list is much shorter (thank you for making me feel a little less bad).

• Main bathroom needs repainting (peeling/flaking paint everywhere thanks to three teenagers showering like they are bloody mermaids) – this is actually getting done at half-term
• The loose tiles in the same bathroom need re-laying and grouting up. Also being done at half-term
• En-suite - ceiling needs doing (but nowhere near as badly as the main bathroom)
• Our bedroom – desperately needs redecorating and decluttering
• Soffits and facias - need replacing entirely but can't stomach the cost
• Guttering – not as bad as the above but makes sense to do it at the same time
• Mock-Georgian woodwork – needs ripping off and burning in hell just for existing (but it is also very tatty)
• The paving stones I put down as a temporary measure when we moved in 10 years ago on the drive – need ripping out and replacing with block paving to match the rest of the drive
• Decking – despite only going in five years ago needs remedial fixing as some of the wood is rotting already
• Utility room – after doing up the entire of the house since we moved in (it was all mid-1980s decor) we lost the will to live and this still needs updating. It will still be in the same state in another 10 years I am sure
• The rest of the house could do with a lick of paint but that can wait

Actually it's pretty long – shit, now I am feeling bad all over again

How broken is your house? Make me feel better.

You're not my mortgage lender are you?

Suffice to say I'd happily swap.

Tumble Dryer – Overheats and I have to remove rear panel to reset a fuse. Needs repair / replace

well that one could burn the house down and sort the rest of the list in one...

^ Very true. And tumble driers aren't exactly expensive so just buy a new one.

Decking (quite a big area) collapsed two weeks ago so ripped it up last Monday as I thought I had someone lined up ready to replace it - he came took one look at it and said no thanks

Every window on the front of the house (10 panels, 5 in a bay) is blown

Conservatory leaks - spent hours trying to work out where from but no luck

Central heating has a blockage which even one of those mega flushing machines couldn't shift - I'll move before the floors have to come up to sort that one out.

The exhaust flue on the boiler has rotted through and you can't get replacements for it so it needs patching with adhesive foil every month or so. Replacing it will likely need the gas main re-routing so again I'll try to keep it alive until we move.

Walls facing the west have to be redecorated every other year as they get mouldy due to poor heating and exposure to prevailing wind.

Render on the back of the house is all crumbling where it was in contact with the rotten decking so will need patching up.

French doors need replacing as the hinges have dropped and run out of adjustment because the frame is bowing

Oh the electrics are just ridiculous - we still have bakelite sockets in the skirting and light switches in door frames in 1 room, wiring a light fitting will often mean an unscheduled dismount from the ladders and the bulbs upstairs blow at a rate of at least 1 / week. Washier and dryer on at same time? Pffft not unless you want to trip the circuit and then spend an hour getting the Sky boxes and routers to all play nicely again.

Lath and plaster ceiling in living room is being held up by lining paper and paint. I'm not sure we could get the furniture out of that room now as it's bigger than the remaining doorway, the other other bigger doorway got bricked up a few years back, the window units would probably have to come out to get it all out.

Smokey-jo wins. 🤯

Reading this thread makes me happy. I have a fair few jobs from the lists above but not as many. Shower, ceilings, plastering, electrical bits, some plumbing, insulation and eventually decorating and carpets. I'm not a fan of Victorian housing.
Maybe a few years of work to go?

Garden- Top has been cleared/membraned but needs leveling with sand and flagging. Bottom patio is pretty knackered too.

House- Replace the downstairs doors with some nice Oak ones (current ones are 80's tastic) Repaint most of the woodwork/bathroom (I'm a decorator so it never gets done) Boilers on its way out too. Get the garage cleared/sorted out and belfast/utility sink plumbed in. Usually work 6 days a week so dont want to sacrifice riding days.

I could make a start this weekend, or I could ride my bike.

Sums up me too.

Not broken at all, spent Covid lockdown doing all the jobs after I gave the TV and booze up after the first week. Choices choices.

after I gave the TV and booze up after the first week. Choices choices.

Christ!

I feel a lot better after reading this 🙂

@smokey_jo

Sound like my old house!! 🤣🤣😬😬

Looks at your lists. Looks at notepad on desk entitled 'house'

I have lists of lists. I'm 6 years in and I'd say about half way through and finding new things as I go. Cracked lintel found when new window installed was the latest unforseen thing added.

Got to love a doer upper

I would have loved to get out on the bike today, I did manage a 5k run first in a week so proud I did something other than work and DIY

300 years old but heavily converted from a single storey rural farmstead, post office and store in 1982.

Walls desperately need insulation.
Windows are poor insulators and so rotten you can push your fingers through the rotten wood on most of them. Thankfully they are not blown...because you can't blow single glazing.
In the winter most rooms are single figure temperatures in the morning no matter how warm you had the fire the night before.
No wall or peice of wood has had new paint on it this millenium, most since the original conversion in '82.
The carpets are the same age.
The water in the kitchen is from a private supply and not fit for human consumption so every drop we use for drinking or cooking needs carrying in from another room at the other end of the house that has a mains tap.
We are way outnumbered by mice - we are the tenants, they are the masters.
They don't get the run of the loft....because of the bats.
The stove is central to remaining warm in winter but is terminally cracked. But the setup is so far from modern building regs it would need a stupid amount of work doing before a new one could be installed.
There is a crack down one of the walls from gable to foundation - I try not to look at it.

We sunk all our cash into our side business - we don't have a bean to sort it.

Sorry, drifted off for a moment, you were saying?

Some of these barely register! I’m crap at DIY and also have no real interest in it. Here goes.

Rendering is falling apart and dropping off. This was aided by a drunk driver crashing in to the corner of the house and putting a big hole in it just before lockdown. Repair is a different colour and texture to the rest of the house.

Roof is crap and needs replacing. It’s stone slab and double joisted. Leaks when there is heavy rain and the wind blows in certain directions. Leak is always somewhere different to keep you on your toes. Cost of repair/replacement is the GDP of a small nation.

Damp on all external walls and main bedroom ceiling. See render issues^^

Driveway is an amateur block paving affair and has sunk in places. Patio ditto and also has man traps in the form of edging that looks sound but flips up if you approach from the wrong angle.

Bathroom roof (flat) sprung a huge leak a couple of years ago. External roof repaired, internal not. Bathroom in general looks like a set from Hostel.

Bath leaked in to kitchen. Created a stain that genuinely looks like a penis. Makes me laugh every time I look at it. Kitchen floor tiles installed badly and as a result have cracked and sunk.

Door to boiler/airing cupboard falls off when opened. Can’t close our bedroom door or you get trapped in. Kitchen door handle is broken on one side so you can get stuck in dining room. Bathroom door is bowed and almost falling off.

Thing is, the house has been standing since 1898 so is probably fine. The rest, I can just think of much more fun things to do with my time and what little money I have. Also have two young kids so a nice house isn’t happening.

This is turning into a Monty Python sketch! 😂

1979 David Wilson estate house.

Still has the original internal doors. But if we tried to replace them the frames probably aren't square.

Upvc windows and doors all now 22-30 years old.

Bath taps need replacing, but due to poor planning we'd have to go in through the other side of the wall.

Most rooms could do with redecorating.

2 sheds and garage could all do with clearing out.

Garden is superficially tidy.

Behold! Dick stain!

Also forgot leak from bathroom sink that has been repaired twice already. Also, huge crack in the same sinks bowl because small children.

My house is finished at the moment! 😁

Garden is one the way to being sorted as well. Although do need to relay a load of slabs and re joint loads of it.....

I might run out of jobs soon!! Might even be able to ride my bike again....

OP - for your shower and bath sealant buy some of the Cramer Fugi silicone tools and then watch how to use them on YouTube. For something so simple they are a total game changer. Gives a very consistent bead shape and the flexi material they are made of cleanly scrapes off ALL of the excess.

I have one internal door in my house that closes properly, every single other one is a combination of warped , no latch,no hole in the frame for the latch, no handle,or handle facing wrong way.

Got a patio that needs repointing,but this is being done next week.

I did have a perfectly reliable ,but hideously expensive to run boiler from 1992, I recently had it and the vented hot water cylinder replaced with a new modern condensing boiler and invented cylinder,which broke within 2 weeks of being fitted.

Well… It’s 14 months since my house had power and we’re living in a lined ‘shed.’

Job list includes everything except 90% of the external walls and windows and the slab.

House looks like this inside at the moment:

https://flic.kr/p/2oA5uAg

I’m pissed off that it took a weekend of hard work out of my life that could have been spent doing something fun and now she wants to patio over it.

You keep on moaning, you're gonna be under that patio...

I live in rural Croatia….. Bought a fally down rambling old farm 10 years ago.

I would love pictures and to hear more about your "journey" (without outing yourself, obviously).

Hold my beer....

Boiler (triggers broom) - every year something happens and I fix it,  currently don't know what's wrong but intermittently craps out and no hot water.

Roof - leaks in a couple of places,  flashband holding it together.

Chimney - both need re-pointing as they leak in windy rain.

Drains -  part finished new patio needs connecting to drainage.

Patio - needs finishing.

Septic tank soak away - in really wet weather it percolates up to the surface and floods the bottom of the garden. Currently has a flat pump keeping the level down,  pumped into our field.

Damp - several patches around the skirting showing through, need to strip the plaster and inject some dpc.

Kitchen door - handle broke a couple of we dogs as ago,  won't always open.

Dishwasher - wont drain again, cba to pull the hose off and clean it.

Oven - can't use the top oven as it trips the mains,  needs replacing.

hob - been cracked since we moved in, need a new one.

Garage - falling over slowly, every so often when I open the door there is a bit more rubble on the floor where its shifted.

Floor - fitted a new floor when we moved in,  but the door thresholds are crap and don't match,  never got round to putting new ones in.

Guttering - joints are leaking, need looking at.

Shed - current one falling down with stuff still in it.

Dead tree - still standing so needs dealing with before it falls over.

And that's before any new projects....

Since moving in 4 days before Christmas we’ve worked out we need to replace:

The wiring
4 bathrooms
The insulation in many of the walls
All the pointing
All the guttering (66m)
Every downstairs window glazing unit (13 panes)
Two complete velux units, the glazing in at least 6 of the other 12.
The kitchen.
The kitchen patio doors.
All the carpets.

Oh yes and the entire roof.

One double glazed window has blown seal, needs replacing

Hah! One! He said one! How about 15 of the ****ers?

A rat problem that proffessionls can't solve and a constant running water noise that I can't find the source off!

Hope the OP is feeling better now, pretty sure I could px our hovel to someone on here and win

.

Gable end to re-render.
Random damp spot on internal wall.
Shower extractor in loft to replace, accessed through loft insulation.
Sitting room to redecorate.
All downstairs doors to paint.
Window frames to seal.
Garden is neverending.
Fit new windows into summer house.
New fence around veggie plot.
Paint gate.
Tidy garage.
The list goes on...

I'll get round to it after I've been out on my bike.

Just count yourself lucky you have a house to have a list for, I'd love to have a few projects to get stuck into!

No I'm not doing any of your houses 😜

4 bathrooms

Are you living in a hotel? That just sounds like unnecessary hard work.

The list at my old house was a lot, lot longer than that!

I moved house

Me too.

20ish years there and only fixed stuff when it was unusable/unsafe.
Just couldn't be bothered with any of that shit when we could be out riding.

As Mrsstu's dad always used to say to us "you can always do that stuff when you're too old to ride".
He was a wise man.😁

I'm not even making a list.

😀

Not broken at all, spent Covid lockdown doing all the jobs after I gave the TV and booze up after the first week. Choices choices.

I did the same, got to a decent spot, one room needs redecorating still.

Then a joint on the bathroom sink taps monoblock decided it had had enough of life, and started to drip. Very slowly. Didn't realise because sink is on cabinet and it was running along the back of the cabinet into the wall and then downwards. Making the wall and floor wetter and wetter, but not in a way that you notice. Finally the ceiling in the kitchen and the kitchen wall started to show damp, but by now there so much soaked in that drying it out has only caused the plaster to all crack. And it's got into the plywood base under the (vinyl, but expensive) tiles in the bathroom. Which the cabinet sits on. So the ply has swelled and created gaps between the tiles that because it's the only bathroom the humidity of showers has got further into so the tiles are starting to curl a bit and if you aren't careful you can impale your feet on a sharp corner, / crack the corner off.

So I now need to replaster a wall, patch a ceiling, lift and retile a bathroom floor which has a cabinet sat on it and might therefore need removing but it's sealed and grouted to a tiled wall behind......

All for a tiny ****** drip.

joshvegas
Free Member
Most of those are minimal Hassel.

Sven, is that you?

I feel so much better about my house now. Just need

* some repointing done at the back

* an internal door handle/latch replaced

* some dripping guttering fixed

* downstairs bathroom tap replaced with something my four year old can actually use

* the woodwork at the front sanded and repainted

Mines being a right pain, the todo list is now over two full pages of A4 each with two columns.
Every time I tick something off, three more things get added!

I've got maybe 15 major things such as black mould in the hallway, built in fridge freezer not working properly, slow leak in the central heating, leak in the roof when rain comes from a certain direction etc.
The rest are things like the toilet flush not working properly unless you hold the button for an extended period, the bathroom extractor not extracting, doors catching on the carpet.

The main issue is I have a 1 year old and a 7 year so don't have big blocks of time to actually complete a job without a little helper getting involved.

Plus why in the eff will people turn up to do a quote, measure everything up then not get round to issuing it?! Some of the jobs are probably 10K+ and they seemingly can't be bothered. If you don't want the job then just say or give me a "****-off" quote, rather than waste both our times with me chasing you every week and you fobbing me off.

There definitely something to be said for having a house no bigger than is really necessary....

Less maintenance. Less to clean. Less to heat.

This is turning into a Monty Python sketch!

*Rolls up sleeves, takes a deep breath*

Well the builders have finished most of their work so there's just a couple of rooms that I need to paint.
They still need to tile the bathroom and fit everything.

As for the DIY stuff... insulating the house to start with... so far I've hacked the old thick plaster off the walls of 2 bedrooms and the downstairs rooms. 2 bedrooms to go, but we're living in those at the moment (2 adults, 4 young boys and a new baby).

The bare walls need rendering, then insulation sticking on, then a plaster topcoat. The render and insulation we're doing ourselves, 1 room rendered so far.

Also 1 wall has been entirely removed downstairs, I'm replacing it with a wide cupboard with the back of it built to be like a stud wall. Cupboard on the hallway side, wall on the living room side. This is half quarter done.

The kitchen is removed entirely, that room is bare plaster with a few old units freestanding with a sink bolted on etc... it's not ideal. Finalising quotes for the new kitchen.

The garden's also a mess from the builders and becoming a priority what with the nice weather and young children needing an outlet.
The grass needs doing, bushes/hedges planting, oh and I need to finish building the wooden playhouse thing for the kids. At least the pair of new chickens will occupy them for now 🐔

Electrics too, a few new and replacement sockets which I'll probably do myself. Must remember to do this before the walls are done...

The front door is off its hinges and replaced by a sheet of OSB for now. The door's been stripped and my wife's painting it now. Must find a source for the new glass panels.

It's been like this for close to a year now and is taking its toll on us and the kids... however the end is in sight!

Trying to get it done and fitting in time around work means I'm staying up until 2am or so most nights... which also means I can't use power tools after a certain time so everything takes longer.

Might be easier to move to a cardboard box in the middle of the road 😁

Edit: Oh and in a spare moment I built myself a bunnyhop bar practice thing. Just need to make the bike usable... I think all it still needs is the new pads bedding in, though it's Magura so that's a job in itself!
(They say accelerate to 20mph then go to a full stop. 30-50 times. Per wheel. You're 'avin' a larf.)

I refuse to make a list. It would be demoralising.
Instead I just work on whatever appears to be the biggest priority at the time/fits the weather/is more appealing to me.

Where's that Australian fellow whose house was demolished by storms last year?

My house is over 600 years old.

This is what the main roof looks like from inside the attic:

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I try and avoid going in the attic so I don't need to think about it.

This is one of the smaller jobs we've had done since we moved in:

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Admittedly with the second one I did get to walk round on the deck pretending I was Captain Bligh for a couple of days but, still.

I try and avoid going in the attic so I don’t need to think about it.

Same technique as me then!

Good God. How do some of you sleep at night? 🙂

Loads of issues with our house (although not as bad as that ^^^ lot). Paid a builder, decorator, gardener, cabinet maker, etc to sort them. This after mostly ignoring them for 10+ years. I am so glad we decided to sink some savings into it than trying to do it ourselves (and a lot we couldn't - roofing etc)

Still stuff to do, see when we run out of cash but won't be doing it myself. Work enough/crap at DIY/want to spend spare time doing stuff we like to do.

Really the main roof needs to come off. But we had a quote for that. It's not happening.

Mugboo
Re:rats. Have you had cameras down the sewer pipes. My old house had rats in walls driving me mad, cameras found they had travelled up sewer pipes then gnawed through them to dig a tunnel to get into the cavity wall to run round the house.

Good God. How do some of you sleep at night?

I've been working my way round sorting out 600 years of bodges.

This was the upstairs shower:

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They'd actually built it over a window. It was the only window in the building with a lock on it.

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This was the base of the wall under the window - yes, you can see the outside...

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turned out alright (imo)

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But everywhere's the same. It gets a bit wearing sometimes.

Overheats and I have to remove rear panel to reset a fuse

The thermal trip in the back of tumble dryers is usually fairly accessible and very easy to replace, assuming you can buy the part. IIRC from one I did a few years back it was two pozi self-tapping screws and two push-on 'spade' type connectors. The trip/reset might be borked or there might be a bigger issue causing a lack of airflow over them, that'd be more worrying as it's a major cause of overheating.
Add it to your list...
HTH 😉

Where’s that Australian fellow whose house was demolished by storms last year?

That's Reeksy. He commented earlier in the thread, 14 months of living in a shed.

They’d actually built it over a window

I mean of course they did. Who wouldn't 😉 Does look good now tho. Some proper skills on show there.

When the builders were fixing the little roof (only added around 1980) they kept pointing out short cuts/cheap fixes/terrible design decisions which all transgressed a number of building regs.

Where was the building inspector I asked? Either buried in the garden or enjoying his envelope of cash down the local spearmint rhino came the response. It was the 80s I guess 😉

Those before bathroom photos look like an improvement on mine! I would post pictures but I’m genuinely ashamed 😂

My house is in good shape structurally and I think the roof is OK.
However, the geothermal heating system just had its 20 year anniversary and has needed repairs and filling yearly for few years now. It is connected to discontinued model of mechanical ventilation system and replacing both will cost at least 15 000€ for parts and labour. Adding to complexity is that system is behind wall built after installation, of course all the electricity for the house are on that wall too.
It is quite likely that the system will fail when it is needed the most. We are lucky to live in the south so low winter temperatures (-20C) will usually last only a couple of weeks.

House is absolutely fine, but full of MIL's (dear departed) stuff that needs sorting but MrsF not upto it. It's been a very slow process. Loads of videos, files, 8mm cine, 16mm cine etc etc to go through. Got some furniture we don't need that's just taking up space. The mess is getting me down, but it's getting slowly better. Son has car parts all over the place, very messy person, and I built him a shed for his bit's - that's overflowing and he won't get rid of stuff. Got a heavy 'broken' gearbox in the middle of my greenhouse that I want shifting (his).

Really gets to me when I can't get my bike out of my garage - I tend to lose it with him !

Sven, is that you?

loved his books

I sold my dream house when I realised that I couldn’t afford to do it up and pay off the mortgage. Bits of it were in a puddle some of the time. There was ice on the inside of the windows I hadn’t double glazed in the winter. I couldn’t work out how to ditch the aga because it was linked to the hot water and kept the kitchen warm so redoing that was a massive job.

Was a bit gutted but selling up opened new doors. Also I think I would have been bankrupt if still I had it through the energy crisis. Especially as it was on a tracker mortgage. Now have a more sensible house in France.

The oven has packed in though. Dealt with that by buying an air fryer…

Imagine how the people who pay £150k+ for this would feel:

Hushinish

It is effectively a lean-too, wooden-framed tin shed that almost certainly will need completely flattening

I need a new roof (it's only a simple pitched roof, but 120 sqm of it)
And a complete set of new windows and some exterior doors. (4 doors and 16 windows, all the glass is coated and triple glazed as well)
I also need to repaint all the exterior wood work on the house and re-clad the garage (a large double garage) there's also some patching needed on the foundations of the house and the foundation need repainting as well.
Oh, the wind out awning at the back is dead too, need to make an effort to replace that too, and remove the broken one on the side of the house, which i didn't use for the 10 years that it did work.

Then there's some decorating needed inside.

And the household income halved fairly recently. So i'm broke.

Oh, the kitchen will need doing sometime in the next 3-5 years as well.

Tasteless 70's A-Frame box built out of old Cornflake packets and Bostick.
Rebuilt everything.
Proper down to the brick job. Floors, insulation, roof, dormers, rewire, windows etc.

We went with 70's colours too, orange, white and green. 😀 Looks like a set from Playschool.

Just minor paintwork and the garage to sort.

Last house was a three storey 1860's cottage. Not a straight edge in the place, constantly demanding and basically a money pit.
Well rid.

We nearly bought an ex wild west themed brothel, that would have been fun.

wild west themed brothel,

"Yee whore" is the best I can manage.

Where’s that Australian fellow whose house was demolished by storms last year?

I’m a dual citizen 😉

Yep… this is annoying as the bricks aren’t available anymore.

https://flic.kr/p/2n7pPHP

https://flic.kr/p/2n7pPKH

Just needs a sticker Reeksy.

In all seriousness I hope you get it sorted soon and can move out of the shed.

^^ Houses like that are usually sold as ”lovely opportunity for buyers with renovation skills”

“Yee whore” is the best I can manage.

You've set the bar fairly high there, my best was "ho down".

Anyway.

Thanks to all the posters who have made me feel much better about my place. With its crumbling plaster, rotting door sills, floors that bounce and not in a good way, and all the rest of it.

Lol at 'dick stain'! 🙂

Not-so-golden shower?

We've just had a 10 grand quote for replacing some fascias/soffits/gutters, so it looks like I'll be spending more time on scaffolding than on a bike this summer.

Current major job list:
Bathroom needs complete redo/remodel. Putting it off for as long as I can.
Two exterior doors warped, need replacing, so do their sills (rotten)
General redecorating.
Replace flooring/carpets.

New build 4 years ago, so the cheap builder's paint is now scruffy and needing decorated all through. Last time this happened we moved house (to here).