Bodges you’ve seen.

[Drawweight]

When we moved into our High Street flat we expected a bit of work. After all it had been rented out for donkeys years.

However it was even worse than we thought.

The entire row of kitchen wall units crashed to the floor in the middle of the night. The backs however were still screwed to the wall.

One of the sockets in the hall was wired up to the ceiling light with obviously no earth.

The drain from the bath was fixed to the original lead pipe with mastic and it didn’t have any fall either. Eventually it silted up burst the joint and flooded the flat underneath.

We had a ‘speed hump’ in the hall where an internal wall had been removed and they hadn’t taken it far enough down.

And that’s only a few we found. I bet others have found worse .

[Drawweight]

Here’s a confession to a bodge I did myself that went wrong.

Lived in an old flat where the render had come away down one side of one of the sash and case windows leaving quite a big gap.

Clever me thought I’d just put some expanding foam into it and trim it off flush.

‘This is using a lot of foam?’

Fine till I went to open the window and found the weight box was full of expanded foam.

On some other website that bodge may appear.