Shoddiest DIY job

LirW · 21-03-2018 09:11PM

Odelay wrote: »

Were you able to get a mortgage on it? Did the surveyor factor in much for renovations? Just curious because I may go down a similar route myself.

We don't have a mortgage, the house itself was p1sscheap for the area because it came with obvious issues. I'm not sure if you would have gotten a mortgage on it, a few minor issues came up during conveyancing but nothing that would have made it difficult with a bank.
The surveyor we got was absolutely useless. You'd be better off getting an electrician, builder and plumber in to inspect their field's things for renovation purposes.

If you can take the miserable time of renovating, totally do it, it's an amazing feeling seeing your house transforming into your own!

sbsquarepants · 22-03-2018 09:26AM

Not exactly shoddy DIY, but we moved recently to a very nice house, everything is fairly ok (even if the presses are a little over secured!) But the previous owners had a thing for fancy lights - (or maybe they didn't as they left them all behind:D).
Included in this unexpected haul of lights are 3 chandeliers - now bear in mind this is your fairly typical family home in a housing estate, not the palace of Versailles, although the lady we bought it from was French, so maybe she had aspirations.
I've lost count of the number of times i've clattered one of the kids heads off the damn things:mad:!
What they hell do people be thinking?

uck51js9zml2yt · 23-03-2018 07:59AM

Got laminate flooring down recently which was done by 2 Romanians working for a well known Dublin carpet shop.
They did a great job. Prepped the area and cleaned up afterwards.

Fiend-Foe · 28-03-2018 05:09AM

Nearly every plug socket in our apartment was hanging off the wall on one side, the plastic backboxes were all broken on the right side.

Stupid enough thing to do once, but to do it 7 or 8 times in a row. Must have been using a drill to fasten them.

Celtic Tiger half arse construction, the place is full of half measures. Terrible fit and finish everywhere.

The kickboards in the kitchen aren't clipped on to the legs of the cabinets because the legs are too far back, instead they are just wedged in place with the clips on the ground behind the board. Always falling out.

I dunno what's worse, that someone did all this or that someone else had to sign off on it and saw no problems

Canis Lupus · 28-03-2018 08:15AM

I'm shamefully bad at DIY.... I normally end up doing the job 3 times to get it right and it's often just easier to call in a tradesman as a result... One of my biggest issues is now that I'm a homeowner I often dunno who to call for a job... As a renter I just called the landlord and said such n such was broken and a man turned up to repair it. Now I'm like.... who the feck do I call to repair the wood behind the guttering? A roofer? A gutter...person... a normal builder? A carpenter??? Life is so complicated

Slightly more on topic our house has a covered patio and whoever put it up never changed anything on the existing house. So it's roof, then house guttering which is then covered over by the added on patio roof. As above I need work done on the guttering but I'll be damned if I can see a way to access the guttering and the stuff behind it... The patio covering also has guttering built in but you literally can't access it apart from getting in a finger or two to clean it out and the downpipe empties right next to the house which is great in subtropical Brisbane when it rains....

Shoddiest DIY job

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