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Oh, and outside the 3m high pear tree had snapped it support post a while ago, this resulted in a tree that was almost horizontal. Didnt need fixing though, she just let it grow as is.
I made it vertical again and supported it with a post, all the branches where pointing East like a photo of a tree in a hurricane
It took about 4 years of cutting back and regrowth to make the branches grow into the old fashioned tree shape.
I made it vertical again and supported it with a post, all the branches where pointing East like a photo of a tree in a hurricane
It took about 4 years of cutting back and regrowth to make the branches grow into the old fashioned tree shape.
Edited by The Hofff on Tuesday 5th May 14:22
Joyrider1 said:
This was one of my particular favourite 'discoveries' in my house:
(condensed house renovation thread here for further bodges found: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Could you tell me what paint you used in the lounge, the dark grey colour. Wife wants to know :-)(condensed house renovation thread here for further bodges found: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
sociopath said:
ETA
In our current cottage in North Wales we have a (fairly modern) fused switch. It's active in that it had power and it works but we have no idea what it controls, and turning it on or off doesn't seem to do anything
Similar to that, 5 years ago I had my house pretty much re-plumbed (conventional boiler, gravity fed heating system with immersion tank replaced with big ass combi boiler and pressurised system) and pretty much rewired. In the airing cupboard where the hot water tank used to live there is still a switched spur for the immersion with tell tale light. I pressed it the other day (don't know why) and it lit up...In our current cottage in North Wales we have a (fairly modern) fused switch. It's active in that it had power and it works but we have no idea what it controls, and turning it on or off doesn't seem to do anything
Edited by sociopath on Monday 4th May 22:45
Joyrider1 said:
This was one of my particular favourite 'discoveries' in my house:
(condensed house renovation thread here for further bodges found: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
You'd be suprised how often I see that (condensed house renovation thread here for further bodges found: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Had a lot of 'standard' stuff in my last place courtesy of the previous owner such as:
- curtain rails screwed directly in to plasterboard
- same with toilet roll holder
- newspaper as carpet underlay
etc etc
but the worst one in that place was the electric shower.. When we looked at the place they had put christmas presents in the shower cubicle (in about september) and said they were hiding them from the kids. After we moved in, whilst using the shower we discovered that the the box housing the electrical part of the shower unit was dripping. On inspection discovered that they had tried to silicon seal the box to stop the leak which was causing the box to fill up with water. The tide mark was about 1cm below the 40Amp power supply
but my favourites from the most recent place I moved in to:
- the previous owners had changed the kitchen for a newer one. The washing machine was plumbed in to the same waste as the kitchen sink... except it was plumbed in so that every time you emptied the sink, it went straight in to the washing machine
- bath in main bathroom had been 'freshened up' with some tiling. They tiled the side of the bath and used so much adhesive it took me a very large hammer & about 6 hours to remove about 2 sq meters of tiles to actually get to the bath when I removed the bathroom
- Shower in ensuite always had a bit of a smell & from the missing chrome on the drain it looked like the previous owners were always hiding the smell by pouring bleach down the plug. It turns out that whoever plumbed it in decided it was too much work to fit a trap and just ran a loose waste pipe in to the soil downpipe.
- curtain rails screwed directly in to plasterboard
- same with toilet roll holder
- newspaper as carpet underlay
etc etc
but the worst one in that place was the electric shower.. When we looked at the place they had put christmas presents in the shower cubicle (in about september) and said they were hiding them from the kids. After we moved in, whilst using the shower we discovered that the the box housing the electrical part of the shower unit was dripping. On inspection discovered that they had tried to silicon seal the box to stop the leak which was causing the box to fill up with water. The tide mark was about 1cm below the 40Amp power supply
but my favourites from the most recent place I moved in to:
- the previous owners had changed the kitchen for a newer one. The washing machine was plumbed in to the same waste as the kitchen sink... except it was plumbed in so that every time you emptied the sink, it went straight in to the washing machine
- bath in main bathroom had been 'freshened up' with some tiling. They tiled the side of the bath and used so much adhesive it took me a very large hammer & about 6 hours to remove about 2 sq meters of tiles to actually get to the bath when I removed the bathroom
- Shower in ensuite always had a bit of a smell & from the missing chrome on the drain it looked like the previous owners were always hiding the smell by pouring bleach down the plug. It turns out that whoever plumbed it in decided it was too much work to fit a trap and just ran a loose waste pipe in to the soil downpipe.
technodup said:
This was found in a friend's house...
Loft conversions are easy aren't they? Basically just an extra staircase?
It's a bit steep...
Leading up to two 'bedrooms' in the attic
The best bit was that this was added by the tenant that had been renting it from my friend...
The 'bedrooms' were as bad as you might expect.
Many years ago husband worked for a housing association. One day he received a phone call, from a guy who lived across the road from a HA property. He was concerned, the roof looked like it was sagging.Loft conversions are easy aren't they? Basically just an extra staircase?
It's a bit steep...
Leading up to two 'bedrooms' in the attic
The best bit was that this was added by the tenant that had been renting it from my friend...
The 'bedrooms' were as bad as you might expect.
Off husband went to investigate, only to find the tenants had also created a lovely upstairs bedroom, mostly by removing all the roof joists. An emergency evacuation was arranged.
The unsatisfying conclusion is he left not long after this, so never did find out if the tenants had to pay to put it right.
technodup said:
Genuine laugh out loud, just brilliant.Here's what was left in a friend's utility years ago when the windows/frames were replaced.
Presenting the ACME
Best bodge we've found here was after searching for the source of a water leak in the area of an en-suite for a room on the top floor.
We discovered that the drain pipe for the en-suite shower ran under the floor to the eaves space, directly through a neatly-bored hole in the soffit and straight into the rain gutter outside.
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