House of Pain (in the ass.)

So - we've been ripping out the kitchen. We're destroying the bathroom. We're rapidly running out of rooms to put stuff in, as the electrician wants to take up half of the upstairs floorboards. Boy this is fun!

All the shifting around, tearing up and pulling down is also revealing further "errors" produced by the nice men (AKA Cowboys) that built the extension and worked on the house in general - to a rather spectacular extent...

The list of fails found (and mostly fixed) so far includes:

Leaking flatroof on extension

Spaghetti cables for telephone wires

Carpet in the bathroom - mmm, rotting!

Extractor fan feeding into cavity insulation

Wrong valve type on garden tap

Kitchen concrete floor: carpet stuck in it!

Constant boiler overflow due to failed valve

"Great" wallpaper all over: upside down, overlaps, gaps, creases, and rips...

A random extra windowsill!

Double layer of tiles in bathroom

Incredible black mould in most rooms

Damp problems from leaking boiler

Spaghetti style water pipes in kitchen

Backwards aerial cables throughout house

3 pullswitches: no pulls. Just yanked out.

Gatepost fell off in high winds last winter

We STILL can't work out what the deal is with the pipes for garden tap (Valves?)

Random lightswitches: "Very f*kn random"

Livingroom carpet: big bald SEAM in middle

Burnt 250V cable was sparking/smoking

So they cellotaped it and plastered over it

Concrete facings outside crumbling

Fascias rotted through and falling off

Rat in the attic, climbed through fascia

Ariel fixing rotted and aerial dropped off

Extension main power ring done backwards and needs to be completely redone

Odd air vents left from old heating system

It's TRIPLE tiling in the bathroom.

Himself not happy.

I could cry sometimes. But it would only contribute to the existing damp and mould problems.

Quote of the Day: "You'd only be bored if we had a normal house." - His Lordship. Too true, too true. The sheer amount of fail is very funny though!