Bodges you’ve seen.

[Ayahuasca]

Bodges? We don’t have any bodges! We don’t need to show you any stinking bodges!

[technodup]

lemansky said:

technodup said:

This was found in a friend's house...

It's a bit steep...

Genuine laugh out loud, just brilliant.

The best bit was when I put it on my business Facebook page, and was a bit vague about the owner as it was nobody's business. In amongst the WTF reactions a fair few people took offence, thinking that I had been in a customer's house, taken pics "without permission" and was now posting them to take the piss. Completely overlooking the absolute state of the thing, the fact the 'bedrooms' were clearly for young kids and that it broke every H&S and building control rule in the book. I was the bad guy

Only on Facebook.

[Joyrider1]

MOBB said:

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 :-)

Potters Wheel - think it was a Dulux paint - the only paint I ever remember the name of because someone else here on PH used it and I asked the same question

[ChocolateFrog]

Nothing as exciting as some on here but I was talking to a neighbour recently who told me my house was partially burnt down by kids when it was being built, I'd noticed a couple of melted bits on one of the external window cills, luckily it seems the roof trusses were replaced.

Also lino has been laid over the rocking kitchen floor tiles and it irritates me every time I walk over them.

[Zarco]

PrinceRupert said:

vaud said:

Brother in law's house bought from a family who had it for 3 generations.

Came to take up the somewhat flexible laminate floor.

Laminate floor
Carpet
Laminate floor
Carpet
Carpet

Some 2 inches lost to progressive laying of flooring. New doors also needed as they had all been trimmed to match the layers...

That's amazing. Surely it would be harder work to trim the doors than to take up the old flooring?!

Once they did it the first time, I guess they were stuck with it.

[anonymous-user]

blingybongy said:

Robotron-2084 said:

Without my permission, these tenants thought it would be ok to build a conservatory/bedroom, fortunately a neighbour tipped me off.

That's brilliant.
If used as a bedroom the inhabitants would sleep the sleep of the dead.

Do you recall what the people were saying ?looks like the woman is angry?

[Zarco]

dmsims said:

Not mine:

This is the best so far for me

[Busterbulldog]

Another home made loft conversion staircase

[Robotron-2084]

Alan535 said:

Do you recall what the people were saying ?looks like the woman is angry?

They couldn't see the issue, slight language barrier, they felt paying rent allowed them to make 'modifications' without landlords consent, not to mention screwing in to nextdoor's property.

I gave up trying to explain how dangerous , not one, but two boilers flues venting into a confined space was.

[anonymous-user]

Robotron-2084 said:

Alan535 said:

Do you recall what the people were saying ?looks like the woman is angry?

They couldn't see the issue, slight language barrier, they felt paying rent allowed them to make 'modifications' without landlords consent, not to mention screwing in to nextdoor's property.

I gave up trying to explain how dangerous , not one, but two boilers flues venting into a confined space was.

You saved someones life.....

[bristolracer]

lemansky said:

Here's what was left in a friend's utility years ago when the windows/frames were replaced.
Presenting the ACME double one and two-thirds socket. I believe it's still there, kept for comedy value.

As much as I am a fan of the "not my job" videos that abound, that really wasnt a window fitters job to sort out.
He is a window fitter,not a spark, and it should have been up to the client or the builder to arrange a spark to either move or blank off that socket.

[lemansky]

bristolracer said:

lemansky said:

Here's what was left in a friend's utility years ago when the windows/frames were replaced.
Presenting the ACME double one and two-thirds socket. I believe it's still there, kept for comedy value.

As much as I am a fan of the "not my job" videos that abound, that really wasnt a window fitters job to sort out.
He is a window fitter,not a spark, and it should have been up to the client or the builder to arrange a spark to either move or blank off that socket.

You are quite right, no arguments there.

I didn't make it clear and you weren't to know, but in this instance, it was part of a gigantic amount of work that was going on in the house at the time, organised and co-ordinated by one construction company.
There were sparks, joiners, plasterers etc onsite when this happened.

[miroku1]

Darkslider said:

Don't have much to compete with others here, but pulling up old laminate flooring in the spare bedroom revealed the old floorboards.

Moving the rug when painting it brown was obviously too much effort for someone

Think that used to be quite common was it when people didn’t have fitted carpets but a rug of some kind ?

[sunbeam alpine]

Zarco said:

dmsims said:

Not mine:

This is the best so far for me

That are totally bodgetastic!

[Pheo]

miroku1 said:

Think that used to be quite common was it when people didn’t have fitted carpets but a rug of some kind ?

Yep, all of ours where the same in our 1930s house.

[James-06gep]

Oh I forgot the tiled over window in my downstairs toilet:

[CypSIdders]

I was replacing a kitchen in a house I used to own, on the wall, above the work top was an old style 30A coooker switch and socket, there was no electric cooker in the kitchen. When I got round to removing the base units near the cooker switch, I noticed some fat twin and earth on the wall, when I pulled the unit out, the wiring from the switch was just hanging there, bare wires at the end and still live.
Fortunately I didn't get the shock of my life.

I'm slowly renovating a house at the moment, getting close to finishing now and I finally got around to replacing a slidng door on the lounge entrance. It was only when I removed the sliding door that I realised why it had been installed in the first place, one side of the doof frame was 30mm out of plumb. Because the sliding door didn't fully clear the opening, I never really noticed. I removed the old door frame, there were no defects in the frame or wall, it had simply been installed out of plumb on one side. I would say it had been like that for at least forty years.

[Getragdogleg]

A friend discovered a hidden room, well, there was a stud wall that when removed gave them an extra 6ft or so of an existing room. It had a fireplace and alcoves either side and it was a total mystery as to why it had been hidden and so much room just walled off.

[Milkbuttons]

I've got plenty of bodge jobs in my house but my two favourite ones are,

The double socket I can't get to without dismantling the cupboard and my dishwasher fixing point located on the outside of kitchen cupboard.

I'm slowly working my way round the house fixing all the problems.

[heisthegaffer]

In my last gaff, the moronic previous owners had left a live wire under ground after getting rid of their pond and pump.

Current house bathroom wall has tiles over tiles. Possibly over a third set of tiles as the last layer is level with the skirting board.