Bedsit Blues

Asarlai · 29-01-2015 10:44PM #1

Memories of Dublin bedsits, or in other places as well.

"And you don't even have to get out of bed to turn off the light". The final sales pitch given to me by a landlord for a one room dump in Rathmines years ago - a bed surrounded by four walls.

"Suitable for someone who goes home at weekends...." :rolleyes:

Having to go out on the landing to go to the bathroom.

Meters you put money in

jimgoose · 29-01-2015 10:46PM

New Sherry Fitzgerald ad, yeah?

RayM · 29-01-2015 10:48PM

A bathroom so small you have to 'reverse in' to have a crap.

Sheep Lover · 29-01-2015 10:50PM

Blood stains on the wall from when junkies shoot the remains of a syringe up them

heldel00 · 29-01-2015 10:54PM

Lived in one with my sister in ranelagh. It was an extension on the back of Satan's first wife's house.
Bathroom was the first room you walked into! Through that you were into kitchen and then into the bedroom which we had to share.
Riddled with damp, had to dump everything we owned when moving out. Destroyed with mould. Cried every night for the first week we moved in.
Happiest day of my life was packing my car up and getting the fúck away from that witch.

nokia69 · 29-01-2015 10:56PM

irish landlords, the scum of the earth

MarkAnthony · 29-01-2015 10:58PM

heldel00 wrote: »

Lived in one with my sister in ranelagh. It was an extension on the back of Satan's first wife's house.
Bathroom was the first room you walked into! Through that you were into kitchen and then into the bedroom which we had to share.
Riddled with damp, had to dump everything we owned when moving out. Destroyed with mould. Cried every night for the first week we moved in.
Happiest day of my life was packing my car up and getting the fúck away from that witch.

Not really a very nice way to talk about the sis!

Oops69 · 29-01-2015 11:00PM

Having to shave and wash in the kitchentte sink, basement flat 108 rathmines road 1988 and various other ****holes around there and it was one of the better flats aswell , landlords were ALWAYS Cavan men for some reason and were never a day late collecting the rent .

Asarlai · 29-01-2015 11:01PM

heldel00 wrote: »

Lived in one with my sister in ranelagh. It was an extension on the back of Satan's first wife's house.
Bathroom was the first room you walked into! Through that you were into kitchen and then into the bedroom which we had to share.
Riddled with damp, had to dump everything we owned when moving out. Destroyed with mould. Cried every night for the first week we moved in.
Happiest day of my life was packing my car up and getting the fúck away from that witch.

You had a car!?

Asarlai · 29-01-2015 11:02PM

Oops69 wrote: »

Having to shave and wash in the kitchentte sink, basement flat 108 rathmines road 1988 and various other ****holes around there and it was one of the better faults as well , landlords were ALWAYS Cavan men for some reason and were never a day late collecting the rent .

And a lot of them were guards as well. Guards from Cavan. That's the way it was.

anncoates · 29-01-2015 11:09PM

That reminds me, I think it's time to cook a meal to fill the emptiness I feel.

heldel00 · 29-01-2015 11:10PM

Asarlai wrote: »

You had a car!?

It was actually the first year I was out working. Sister was a complete basket case about goin to UCD so mother dearest decided we should share a flat.
Left it too late to go looking of course. Some places wouldn't take a student and others wouldn't take a professional.
Bought my little car the week I was due to move out so was on cloud nine when I was leaving that hole in my lovely dinky car!

RomanKnows · 29-01-2015 11:15PM

Sounds like a bad Smiths b-side.

Post bedsit blues.

suicide_circus · 29-01-2015 11:17PM

Slumlord scum

800euro per month for a one room damp-ridden fire waiting to happen death trap?

Where do I sign?

Frynge · 29-01-2015 11:20PM

RomanKnows wrote: »

Sounds like a bad Smiths b-side.

Post bedsit blues.

You say that like there was a good smiths b-side!

the evasion_kid · 29-01-2015 11:21PM

Having to get out the marigolds and bleach to remove black fungus from the damp coming through the walls

jimgoose · 29-01-2015 11:21PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Slumlord scum

800euro per month for a one room damp-ridden fire waiting to happen death trap?

Where do I sign?

Holster your Colt there, cowpoke. You'll have to save a hundert an' twenteen bajillan of them Earth euro first, according to Paddy Honahan!

Micky Dolenz · 29-01-2015 11:22PM

Yous had it good.

Back in my day it was proper tough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 29-01-2015 11:23PM

youre lucky you had a hole in the ground to sleep in. we couldnt afforda hole in the ground

kowloon · 29-01-2015 11:25PM

Saw a place once that had an all glass conservatory with a tile floor turned into a bedroom, the attic crawlspace had a ladder to another 'bedroom'. Another place had a built in wardrobe converted into a toilet/ No space for a sink so it was put behind the curtains in a bay window (the room was a converted living room).

Arsemageddon · 29-01-2015 11:36PM

My first Rathmines shyte-box had a shower in it which was right beside the plugs and only a shower curtain that kept falling down to prevent electrocution. Central heating consisted of turning the oven on and leaving the door open. as per usual the landlord was a guard.

That place made Angelas Ashes look like an episode of Beverly Hills 90210.

ArnoldJRimmer · 29-01-2015 11:37PM

Went to see one place in Ranelagh in around 2005 that was a room that had a small cooker on top of a small fridge, one press up high, and just about enough room for a single bed. The cheeky b*stard was charging 600 euro for it, but given the lack of alternatives at the time, had people queueing round the corner to take it.

Another, also Ranelagh, was where the landlord advertised a two bed by effectively created an 'attic bedroom' in an old Georgian house, by lowering the roof of the living room and creating what I can only describe as a coffin with a bedside table for someone to sleep in.

Sadly we still get to see similar properties in the 'Funny Houses/ Flats to rent' thread

fryup · 30-01-2015 12:45AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaIhDLb_NE

anncoates · 30-01-2015 12:47AM

anncoates wrote: »

That reminds me, I think it's time to cook a meal to fill the emptiness I feel.

fryup wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaIhDLb_NE

Sigh :pac:

thelad95 · 30-01-2015 01:21AM

I've seen some shocking arrangements of student accommodation but honestly sometimes I think it can be parents faults. The landlord puts up some nice photos online, they go to visit on a nice summers evening and the place seems warm and cosy and 'ah sure it's a place to put the head down'. Fast forward a few months to a stormy December night, their losing the battle to stop mould building up from all the damp, they have to sleep with 4 blankets and their Anthropology class hoody on and despite being offered a vacancy in the colleges student accommodation, they can't move as their sleaze-ball landlord won't release them from their contract.

Asarlai · 30-01-2015 01:38AM

Having to have sex with the landlord's 19 year old daughter when I couldn't afford the rent because nobody wanted to go out with her.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 30-01-2015 01:44AM

Asarlai wrote: »

Having to have sex with the landlord's 19 year old daughter when I couldn't afford the rent because nobody wanted to go out with her.

Bedsit blues, not the plot of the last blue movie yeh watched.

Deco99 · 30-01-2015 01:49AM

Wasn't there a thread before with links to the worst rooms available?

http://www.daft.ie/21521662

For example

nokia69 · 30-01-2015 05:07AM

Frynge wrote: »

You say that like there was a good smiths b-side!

ToddyDoody · 30-01-2015 08:48AM

I suppose the one i was in in rialto this time last year was nothing to get too excited about, fitting two people in it was extremely difficult. It was a converted eh room where the back door is with an an extension on the back.V. Damp in winter, but fine as long as you don't wish to move from the sofa. There was one in Galway that had a reasonable sized bedroom and a separate living room but it was too drafty in the bedroom so i had to move the double mattress into the floor of the living room and step back and forth over it to get to the kitchen table... Again, fine as long as you're happy to sit on the sofa / mattress. I was younger and there was still a sense of independence about all this.

Teyla Emmagan · 30-01-2015 09:11AM

The one where the room was so narrow you had to crawl to the end of the (single) bed to get up. The one with a shower in the corner of the bedroom. Just sitting there, on the carpet, shower curtain billowing gently in the draught. The one with the loo in the corner, enclosed by 2 cardboard walls that were 6 foot high with no ceiling to this delightful compartmented space! In a two bed bedroom! The shared phone in the hallway that only the crazy alcoholic ever answered.

No one should live like that.

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