I’ve found so much fucked up shit in my place it’s not even funny…
I’ve still got a frozen HOT water pipe in my kitchen… It froze on Friday… I haven’t had the time or energy to tear open the wall and cabinets, etc to get at it to unthaw it… grrr…
You sure it’s just an “attic fort”? Not like someone’s been “living there” for years - in a creepy must-puts-on-the-lotion kinda way?
FUCKING AWESOME LOL
I found spliced wires in the walls of my kitchen just OUTSIDE the box. Friggin hack job they did adding lights I think.
We’ve definitely done the whole :picard: thing multiple times during our renovations.
“Attic Fort”
I can certainly complain, cause its frustrating. The home inspector rarely if ever opens every outlet and switch cover. If so, your home inspector is bad ass.
He is there for an hour or two, he isn’t going to find out where 30 years of DIY repairs are hidden. He just makes sure the bulk of the house is in good safe condition. The stuff I worry about 99 percent of home owners wouldn’t give a shit about.
Most homeowners don’t care about the direction wires are wrapped around terminals on outlets, the removal of a switch from the circuit, but leaving the switch in the wall cause they don’t wana get a blanking cover, or putting up sheeting in a garage addition, and lining all the seams up on the plywood instead of staggering them.
that looks more like a storage area, :tdown: for getting our hopes up
I can add some porn mags and a happy sock if that will make it more believable 
The guy who owned my house should have been banned from HD. Luckily he had the sense not to fuck up major electrical and other important things (I also had a good home inspection), but it’s going to take me years to fix every detail. Every fixture they installed is crooked, every molding is cut wrong, cheap dollar store stick-in floor tiles in 3 rooms. Masking before painting? Fuck that! When I removed a cheapo fluorescent light fixture in the kitchen, I realized they used to have 9" by 9" recessed lights. They just left them there, stuck a bulb-plug adapter where the light bulb was, apparently hacked a cord off some random appliance, spliced it onto the new fluorescent fixture, and covered up the whole mess.:suicide:I’ve got 2 more of those bad boys to replace and I have to replace a whole row of tiles for each one. Fuck.
Judging from all of the orbs in the picture I would say it is a ghost fort.
that’s were they stored the gimp.
lol! That’s funny. God I can’t wait to be a homeowner
HAHAH what is with the no tape when painting. The last owners had brand new sockets installed, then painted right over the trim plate, socket and now I scribe around them with a knife, but still paint comes off in sheets (which is what happens when you paint latex over oil without scuffing) and its a mess.
Oh and WTF is with the brad nail hooks. I have pulled at least 100 brad nails out of this place. You would swear that there is some kinda hook shortage in the world.
i’m really upset about the fort. You should update it and make it into a cool fort.
This is why I just decided to build a new house…I know everything is done right
How much does a new house cost compared to a used one? I am def. not looking forward to buying a hacked up house someday.
My mortgage is for $68,000. BUT- I was my own general contractor. I hired the Amish to do 1/2 of the build at their location. We then trucked the house to it’s current location (in 2 pieces) and used a crane to set it on the basement. Myself and my fiance (and a few friends and family members) built the other half on site. We spent A LOT of time, but saved tons of money since we did it ourselves. We also spent a lot of cash out of pocket, probably about $40,000. For me, this was LOTS cheaper than buying some $80,000 disaster and spending who knows how much to fix all the fucked up shit.
Building yourself is the only way a new house is built right. Most new houses are total shit.
My bedroom had about 3 different paint colors over the trim plates. On one wall it looks like they started stripping wall paper, gave up, and painted over what was left of it. The ceiling is rounded and goes down to the floor- I only have walls on 2 sides. They must have put up new drywall on the ceiling at some point, but they only smoothed/rounded it off on one side of the room. The other half has a seam every 2 feet! Since I only sleep in there but wanted it to look decent, I just painted over everything and fixed the trim plate problem, and put new carpeting in. It looks damn good. It’s an old house, I just refer it as “character”, because I don’t feel like doing major drywall work until I remodel the kitchen, living room, and bathroom.
Go for a Ryan homes new build :tup: I have replaced countless 2 year old bathrooms with mold and leakage problems, and plenty of floors. I love the OSB subfloor they use too… Nothing like spending 250k+ on a new house only to have shit redone a year or two later.