sods law.....

[beermaker]

why is it with older houses that no job is simple??!! Couple of loose tiles in the bathroom, decided it was about time it was retiled anyway as it was looking dated. Bought tiles and stuff, started to take old tiles off, next thing you know half the bl**dy plaster comes away down to the brickwork!! Just been out to a well known brand of DIY store thats open on a Sunday and bought two bags of browning and a bag of multi finish - what should have been a couple of days work has turned into several weeks work whilst waiting for the plaster to fully cure before I can tile :evil: story of every damn job in this house!

Mind, this is only a little setback - levelling and turfing the back garden involved borrowing a bobcat digger, a 10 ton trailer and a tractor off my cousin and the small patch of wood worm in the sitting room resulted in a whole new floor going down! I swear the place is jinxed!

 

[Andyhull]

I can relate to you completely,
We have an old house 1895 or something like that and every job has a hidden problem.

I have decorated, rewired re plumbed the whole house, layed new floors upstairs hall and back bedroom, downstairs hall, ktchen and utility room and everytime you remove some old wall paper off comes another chunk of plaster.

I have also installed new fireplaces (cast iron) in the master bedroom, living room and front room.
Then SWMBO adds, "it never took so and so this long to decorate their house" so and so didn't rip fireplaces out and floors up and rewire and re plum and move bloody boilers 1 week before we had the baby come along!

I love them though, loads of charactor and lovely rooms with hight ceilings that you cant heat no mater how much gas you throw through the boiler!

Why did we buy these old houses again? :lol: :cry: :lol: :cry:

 

[taxidiver]

Its enough to drive you to drink.
We need a new garage roof and prices are coming in at around £5,000/£5.550. :shock:
Going for the corkscrew.

Geoff

 

[tbert33]

I feel your pain!

Im sick and tired of my house! If its not one thing its another. Since moving in our house we have had nothing but problems and weve spent a fortune to get things sorted then when one problem is sorted another starts.

Last week the boiler decided to die on us and leaked in the electrics and the roof is bloody leaking.

Its our 1st house and i wont be making the same when we move. Im going to check every inch of a new house before putting in an offer.

 

[Zedilly]

Its enough to drive you to drink.
We need a new garage roof and prices are coming in at around £5,000/£5.550. :shock:
Going for the corkscrew.

Geoff

5 1/2 grand for a roof :shock: . My neighbour had his detached garage knocked down and a brand new attached garage built for 8 1/2. That price included moving some drains too but did not include the cost of the up and over door.

 

[beermaker]

I've had a lifetime of it - my folks house is a 300 odd year old farm house which we started renovating in 1985 and they're still doing bits! I used to come home from primary school, pick up an air chisel and start taking bricks out! Still, it was a better education than in any classroom and its paying off now I have my own house to do!

Only been in my house a few years but in that time I've replaced the entire kitchen roof and ceiling, rewired and refitted the kitchen, replaced the sitting room floor, replaced the dining room floor, ripped out the gas fire, put in a new boiler, levelled out the back garden with a bobcat and turfed it, replaced two doors, decorated the sitting room, stairwell, landing and two bedrooms, put carpet down in three bedrooms, landing, down the stairs and in the sitting room and I've just sat down after plastering the bathroom (and I HATE plastering!!)

Still feel nowhere near ready for selling up - hopefully get it sorted this year!

 

[Zedilly]

I plastered our bathroom this morning...........swmbo said the least I could do was open the window. :lol:

 

[Moley]

I can fully appreciate the points being raised here, our house was also built somewhere around the turn of the last century (1900 give or take a few) and redecorating always involves re-plastering. We have also just been re-roofed and the bathroom will be my next project in the Spring. I will be gutting that back to bare brick and also ripping the ceiling down.

Why did we buy these old houses again? :lol: :cry: :lol: :cry:

Because they have more character than today's little boxes made of ticky-tacky and they often do have cellars :thumb:

 

[dennisking]

Removed the tiles in our toilet and most of the plaster came with it, the house is 40 years old so not old or new. Bloody please my brother is a plasterer.

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

....And it all makes work for the working man to do....

 

[cutnrun]

LOL i feel for you!

we had our bathroom done a couple of years back and the builders claimed easiest bit of the job was to take the old plaster off

however they did discover that the moater in the house is mostly lime and horsehair...

 

[TRXnMe]

Replacing tiles and having to replaster are one and the same thing in mmy experoencce, no matter how old the house.

My last place was built sometime around the Napoleonic War, and didn't have a square corner anywhere in it, the walls were 3 foot thick solid stone, lovely in winter and summer, but a pig for putting up wall paper, or trying to get tiles to look anything like decent

I sold up and moved (new job, 100+ mile commute otherwise) and bought a 'nice' ex council house, built towards the end of the 1960s when councils had a few quid and were building some good places. I decided to retile the bathroom (SWMBO mentioned it would be nice if...) and ended up redoing the plastering (I'm lousy at it ) and the plumbing (less lousy) and then refitting the shower cabinet, not the fault of the council, but the previous bathroom fitter should probably have considered some other trade

If I wasn't perpetually skint I'd pay folk to do this stuff for me, but as I am skint I learn the DDIY skills :)