Bodges you’ve seen.

[ATG]

njw1 said:

ATG said:

... it's in mid Wales.

I stayed in a very old farm house in west Wales last year that had door frames of about 5ft high on the upstairs rooms, I was absolutely determined that I wouldn't smack my head and even whilst (very) drunk on the first night there I managed not to whack my head. However (you know where this is going...), on the first morning there whilst very groggy and rushing downstairs as busting for a pee, yep, I jumped out of bed and walked face first into the door frame....

...This then woke the missus up and was she sympathetic? Oh no, she found it absolutely bloody hilarious....

Hah, yes. That all sounds familiar. The really stupidly low doors are fairly safe because you just can't miss the fact that the door is at the height of your trousers. Sometimes I catch the top of my back on those ones, which hurts, but I've never brained myself on them. The dangerous ones are at about the 5ft 10 level, because you can duck through them easily without having to slow down. So when you fail to duck enough, you're going at speed and wind up in a heap on the floor a bit confused and wondering if you're St Jerome.

[dxg]

That chimney's proper scary!

[JoshSm]

dxg said:

That chimney's proper scary!

Seen much worse and at the time thought it looked lethal but on closer look not a single bit had shifted at all in 20+ years. Brickwork is amazingly tolerant of bodgery.

[bimsb6]

dxg said:

That chimney's proper scary!

My mates chimney was supported by the floorboards with no brickwork going to ground under the boards !

[5s Alive]

Barely qualifies but the house was liberally splattered with this sort of thing inside and out when we moved in. Death by a thousand careless mini bodges.

Oh look that row of cast iron antler coat hangers are pulling out of the wall, some idiot has screwed directly into the plasterboard without using appropriate fixings.

Well, yes and no.

[hidetheelephants]

5s Alive said:

Barely qualifies but the house was liberally splattered with this sort of thing inside and out when we moved in. Death by a thousand careless mini bodges.

Oh look that row of cast iron antler coat hangers are pulling out of the wall, some idiot has screwed directly into the plasterboard without using appropriate fixings.

Well, yes and no.

[LooneyTunes]

Teddy Lop said:

Top tip #47682: Why use overpriced waterproof connections when you can use a choc bloc and just kinda... stylistically smerge it with silicon and optimism.

Similarly, save money on IP rated fittings and cut down a drink bottle instead.



It seems to have worked for some time but I think we might be changing it.

[Welshbeef]

LooneyTunes said:

Similarly, save money on IP rated fittings and cut down a drink bottle instead.



It seems to have worked for some time but I think we might be changing it.

Environmentally friendly reusing a bottle.

[DrDeAtH]

andy43 said:

Djtemeka said:

Started the kitchen refurb in the same property as the bathroom on the previous page.

Window guys have been in and fitted new windows. (Nothing to do with me!)

Aaah I can see your problem there, your designer ordered the pine knock-ons. He should have ticked the Alpine White option.
And left the Bodgefoam tickbox blank.

Ideally, should have used hardwood to pack out where the box sash frame used to be. But at least a good fixing for the frame was achieved.

[dhutch]

JoshSm said:

dxg said:

That chimney's proper scary!

Seen much worse and at the time thought it looked lethal but on closer look not a single bit had shifted at all in 20+ years. Brickwork is amazingly tolerant of bodgery.

Exactly. Your not supporting the whole stack, or bricks above a span, just the handful directly above. The rest feed into the surrounding wall.

bimsb6 said:

My mates chimney was supported by the floorboards with no brickwork going to ground under the boards !

We have one where the bottom few courses are resting on the ceiling joists. Makes floor joists seem like luxury.

Has it moved in the three years we've been here? No more than the decade before. And that's with 120yo lime mortar.

[dxg]

dhutch said:

And that's with 120yo lime mortar.

That's why you can't see the cracks!

[dhutch]

dxg said:

That's why you can't see the cracks!

It's not moved.

[Pistonsquirter]

1890's bodge! Lintel made of hovering bricks;



I finally did something about it when bits of pointing started falling on me, I decided to make it more ornate 'while I was there'

Cut the original imperial buffs into voussoirs and built the arch form. "That'll teach em!"





edit; sashes to follow..

[Djtemeka]

Same kitchen again.
Found the 40mm waste pipe just poked into the cavity wall and joined around a 35mm waste pipe that had snapped years ago. Just siliconed in place half way through the wall :/

[LooneyTunes]

Central heating fitted? Check.
Pipework boxed in? Err, sort of.