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Ask Me About My House

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Has your kitchen ever tried to do this....
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JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
Staff member
Premium Member
How big is the property/land? Do you own any acreage?

Its not a real big lot at all. In the era it was built, it was the center of town, and everything was smushed together. We talked about making a few of the living room windows bigger once(the two facing the other houses) but decided against it, as literally all you would see is the side of the neighbor's house. The lot size is 3660 square feet.

Yes.
It usually indicates roof leaks.
Or a poltergeist.

I'm certain the roof is in good shape.

Must be a poltergeist. I'm sure one of the cats will attend to it soon enough.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Is it all on one level (excluding the cats toilet facilities) or is there an upper level?
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I'm certain the roof is in good shape.

Must be a poltergeist. I'm sure one of the cats will attend to it soon enough.
Cat vomit is highly effective against poltergeists.
But utterly useless for roof leaks. You're fortunate.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Oh, poo. What was the joke?

If it were single story, i.e. a bungalow, it would have been - the design was for a 2 story house but they had a load of building materials stolen... The site foreman scratched his head, was hit by an epiphany and said, "never mind, just bung a low roof on it" and so a new house design was born.

Ok, it's not funny, it comes from the same source who calls an aquaduct a "fly-a-duck"
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
Staff member
Premium Member
If it were single story, i.e. a bungalow, it would have been - the design was for a 2 story house but they had a load of building materials stolen... The site foreman scratched his head, was hit by an epiphany and said, "never mind, just bung a low roof on it" and so a new house design was born.

Ok, it's not funny, it comes from the same source who calls an aquaduct a "fly-a-duck"

Our house was painted over the summer. The turd of a contractor decided he was skipping out on finishing the job "because he liked the way it looked better". In reality, he spent all the money he was given on a new camero, and ran out of money for paint.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Our house was painted over the summer. The turd of a contractor decided he was skipping out on finishing the job "because he liked the way it looked better". In reality, he spent all the money he was given on a new camero, and ran out of money for paint.

Pay after completion for the work done, and always check the invoice is for what was quoted. Or at least part payment before and completion on completion.

Funny story. We had a new driveway laid (way back in time). Checking the invoice one item stood out.
Electricity, £23.50.

The cheeky bugger plugged his tools into our power and tried to charge for it
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Pay after completion for the work done, and always check the invoice is for what was quoted. Or at least part payment before and completion on completion.

Funny story. We had a new driveway laid (way back in time). Checking the invoice one item stood out.
Electricity, £23.50.

The cheeky bugger plugged his tools into our power and tried to charge for it
I once had some tenants who wanted to charge me
for electricity used by a contractor's generator.
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
Staff member
Premium Member
Pay after completion for the work done, and always check the invoice is for what was quoted. Or at least part payment before and completion on completion.

Funny story. We had a new driveway laid (way back in time). Checking the invoice one item stood out.
Electricity, £23.50.

The cheeky bugger plugged his tools into our power and tried to charge for it

The idiot who commissioned the work paid him in full, up front, and continued to give him more money each time he asked, didn't price check. She also didn't check references before hiring him.

We didn't hire this turd. I didn't even want any of the work done.

I'm not surprised you contractor charged for charging!
 

JIMMY12345

Active Member
Hey, I'm stuck here most of the time...

Took me awhile to call it home, but I like it now.

Go ahead, ask away!
Do you know your neighbours? Do you socialise with your neighbours and if not would you like to?
Are there parks and cycle paths nearby.Do you have a Church Mosque or Temple nearby.
The question of course is we all want to know how much you paid for it.But we are all far to polite to ask.
So we will skip that one.Enjoy.
 

England my lionheart

Rockerjahili Rebel
Premium Member
Hey, I'm stuck here most of the time...

Took me awhile to call it home, but I like it now.

Go ahead, ask away!

So your sitting on a sofa or chair and you see things that obviously need fixing,do you say I’ll deal with that tomorrow,next week month or year or do you go straight at it?.
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
The idiot who commissioned the work paid him in full, up front, and continued to give him more money each time he asked, didn't price check. She also didn't check references before hiring him.

We didn't hire this turd. I didn't even want any of the work done.

I'm not surprised you contractor charged for charging!
Several years ago I was working as a groundskeeper for a woman named Erin. While I was there, Erin hired a couple of unscrupulous idiots to remodel pretty much everything about her property.

I worked with these guys for a couple of weeks until I figured out what was up. What tipped me off was when we spent two days scraping and repainting windows in a wall that we were getting ready to tear out anyway. :D

That's two days labor and material with three guys working and all for naught.

So, I tried to tell Erin what was going on but she didn't want to hear it. The two guys she hired (let's call them Mutt and Jeff) played her like a fiddle: constantly flattering her, dropping what they were doing to hold the door for her, calling her "M'lady", . .

She ate that stuff up with a spoon.

Anyway, I wound up writing a song about it called the Fall of Eryndale.

The verse about Mutt and Jeff went like this:

The Queen had knaves, Who lavished her with praise,

Then stole from her and laughed behind her back,

The queen refused to peer beyond her daze,

Or come down from the clouds and face the facts,

So instead of stone and mortar the knaves used mud and shale,

And that was how they built the fragile walls of Eryndale
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