Hey guys I'm new to the forum but I got some great disasters!!.. I've just bought the home I live in now but when I moved in to find out that I'm still on the old electric board!!... not that it was wired up wrong but I've come to find out that the last owners did some great botches!!.
Kitchen, they managed to wire up the electric cooker switch and socket together!!.. so when I switched off the cooker I switched off the fridge, nice to come home to a smell of food slowly going off!!. I sorted this with just one visit to B&Q and bought a new cooker switch and socket combined i wasn't that hard to sort out.
Bedroom 1, when they put up all of the curtain rails in the bedrooms the attached them on a wooden beam above the windows they used a wooden dowel instead of a raw plug so when I fitted a nice new blind in the main bedroom the wooden beam and dowels didn't like the extra weight!!. and fell off.
Bedroom 2, when I painted the spare room the same as above happened but I didn't manage to get the blind on the wall. The wooden beam above the window they fitted fell off the wall with just one touch of a paint roller!!.
Kitchen again, The people I bought the house off were the children of the owners, (doesn't sound right when I say that!!) since their mother died it was left it to them, but I was amazed to find that they put up wood screws as hangers for dish cloths and tea towels!.
I can't think of much more for now... but I've only got through month 3 of new home ownership!! and not had to tackle anymore diy problems!.
Daz
Kitchen, they managed to wire up the electric cooker switch and socket together!!.. so when I switched off the cooker I switched off the fridge, nice to come home to a smell of food slowly going off!!. I sorted this with just one visit to B&Q and bought a new cooker switch and socket combined i wasn't that hard to sort out.
Bedroom 1, when they put up all of the curtain rails in the bedrooms the attached them on a wooden beam above the windows they used a wooden dowel instead of a raw plug so when I fitted a nice new blind in the main bedroom the wooden beam and dowels didn't like the extra weight!!. and fell off.
Bedroom 2, when I painted the spare room the same as above happened but I didn't manage to get the blind on the wall. The wooden beam above the window they fitted fell off the wall with just one touch of a paint roller!!.
Kitchen again, The people I bought the house off were the children of the owners, (doesn't sound right when I say that!!) since their mother died it was left it to them, but I was amazed to find that they put up wood screws as hangers for dish cloths and tea towels!.
I can't think of much more for now... but I've only got through month 3 of new home ownership!! and not had to tackle anymore diy problems!.
Daz
