My New House

kitkat9933 · 8 Aug 2014 at 18:51

This is my thread about my new house and the progress I will me making as I do it up over the next couple of weeks to make it liveable.

Moved in 08/08/2014 and first thing I noticed is that the place is filthy, smells of cigar smoke and they left a lot of stuff including heavy furniture. Also was advertised as being fully plumbed in for dishwasher/washing machine yet the area for the dishwasher has no plumbing at all, which is funny because they had a dishwasher there, there is no way to get it plumbed in either as all the plumbing is on the other side of the kitchen! So just bought a dishwasher I can't use.

Spoke to solicitor straight away and the ex owners are coming to collect there stuff and have asked their neighbours to come collect it to put in their garages, so my new neighbours already hate me which I don't know why! Still waiting to hear about the plumbing situation and brought the family around to get cleaning. Because of all the stuff behind means I could barely move any stuff today which wasted a day of Van hire (which I won't get back), so I focused on cleaning.

So the photos of the mess and bits left behind! I'd be absolutely embarrassed and ashamed, put my back at throwing some of their ****e in the tip as well.

Garage full of stuff and these drawers where heavy as hell and fully of stuff to the brim as well as the fridge covered in mould inside along with a few bottles of wine!

Stuff left outside!

A bed and draws full again!

Loft absolutely full of vacuum packed items which I couldn't get into apart from poking my head in as I don't have a ladder at the moment.

Sink with food items in including a dog bowl and also a glass with a bit of beer still in it

A spot where their 'dishwasher' was which was advertised as fully plumbed in, Me thinks they just used the one from their new house as a dummy one to hide it!

More to follow..

Mynight · 8 Aug 2014 at 18:54

Thats not good

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I assume you've had the house surveyed before purchase?

Jez · 8 Aug 2014 at 18:59

Should have kept the furniture and sold it? That fridge looks half decent

Scuzi · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:02

I was of the understanding that anything left behind after completion was now yours? I'd go out of my way to bring it to the tip in a van out of pure badness for leaving the place like that.

kitkat9933 · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:04

Scuzi said:
I was of the understanding that anything left behind after completion was now yours? I'd go out of my way to bring it to the tip in a van out of pure badness for leaving the place like that.

The draws are to empty to move between three of us!

kitkat9933 · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:06

Jez said:
Should have kept the furniture and sold it? That fridge looks half decent

It's full of mould so not really. None of the furniture is nice enough or in good enough condition to keep.

kitkat9933 · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:06

Mynight said:
Thats not good .

I assume you've had the house surveyed before purchase?

They don't take out a dishwasher to check it actually is plugged in.

Tummy · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:07

Haha, I feel really sorry for you. I'd be really annoyed at moving in to all that.

Saying this; I would probably save up and totally gut and re-do any house I moved in to, but expecting to turn up to an empty house and be met with this is tragic/hilarious/annoying to the extreme.

I'd have just hired a skip for the day, asked around for a couple of friends and throw everything in the skip if I were you. Everything.

Mynight · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:08

I hate people sometimes

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kitkat9933 · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:08

Tummy said:
Haha, I feel really sorry for you. I'd be really annoyed at moving in to all that.

Saying this; I would probably save up and totally gut and re-do any house I moved in to, but expecting to turn up to an empty house and be met with this is tragic/hilarious/annoying to the extreme.

I'd have just hired a skip for the day, asked around for a couple of friends and throw everything in the skip if I were you. Everything.

Cleaning I was prepared for even though I'd assume you would clean the place.

Tummy · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:10

kitkat9933 said:
Cleaning I was prepared for even though I'd assume you would clean the place.

Obviously. A good clean and some redecorating, :eek:

this is a whole new kettle of fish!

rhysduck · 8 Aug 2014 at 19:15

They should have taken everything with them when they moved out, anything that is left is now yours

I was luckily with my house as I knew the sellers through a work mate and luckily the wife was a clean freak.
If it was advertised as fully plumbed for the dishwasher I would seriously take this up with the estate agent (assuming you saw the advert through one) as it's in their interest to advertise the property accurately.

kitkat9933 · 8 Aug 2014 at 23:59

I've passed about the dishwasher to the estate and the solicitor, solicitors on the case and luckily at this stage she is moving fast! This indefinitely the worst bit as the other bits and bobs aren't to bad, but this is as it could be very costly to get it plumbed up as the plumbing is all on the other side of the kitchen and I can't see a way to do it without ripping the entire kitchen up.

Funny that the only clean room was one that had two teenage boys in it as the other 2 bedrooms are filthy, so I've set up camp in here for tonight.

Done my back in so time for a bed I think!

davido_labido · 9 Aug 2014 at 00:15

those wooden units at the back of the garage look quite nice!!

johnny6 · 9 Aug 2014 at 07:07

That's nothing when we finally got the keys to our house, it was almost like the previous 2 occupants (yes two) had just got up one day and left the house without taking any of their belongings.

Prior to us there was a tenant living in the house with a couple of kids, and she was renting the property for 2-2.5 years off of the family which we purchased the house from.

Clearly the tenant never threw out any of the owners stuff and just added hers into the mix. The house was full to bursting, as well as two large sheds in the garden which were full from top to bottom, front to back.

We found 3 fridge freezers, 3 dining room tables, 4 wardrobes complete with clothes still hanging in them, 5 beds, toys, photos, a box full of letters (bank statements, utility bills and the usual stuff). Most disgustingly however we found food in the kitchen that was 4 years out of date. 4 years that means it was out of date before the tenant moved in and she never thought to throw it out in the years she was living there.

It took us an age to clear the house. Some people just live like animals to be honest.

johnny6 · 9 Aug 2014 at 07:15

Regarding the dishwasher is it not possible to jig the kitchen around and create a space for it on the other side of the kitchen? Thus avoiding the costly process of bringing the plumbing around to its current location.

ZG002 · 9 Aug 2014 at 07:23

There no way to remove a unit near the sink for your dishwasher? Then replace it in the empty gap?

Also that's not too bad, I do electrical inspections on "empty" council houses.. You should see the mess some of those are in! I've refused to test a few until a clean team has attended.

Millwall.FC · 9 Aug 2014 at 08:02

johnny6 said:
Regarding the dishwasher is it not possible to jig the kitchen around and create a space for it on the other side of the kitchen? Thus avoiding the costly process of bringing the plumbing around to its current location.

I think the estate agent should pay to plumb it in.

johnny6 · 9 Aug 2014 at 08:29

Millwall.FC said:
I think the estate agent should pay to plumb it in.

Show me an estate agent which pulls out all of the appliances to see if they are plumbed in or not. If anything the issue is with the previous owner who has claimed it was/never corrected the estate agent.

God I've seen some completely inaccurate information being advertised by estate agents, obvious stuff which you can see is not true walking up to/in to the property. If they can't get the obvious stuff 100% correct what are the chances of them getting something like a dishwasher being plumbed in correct.

I'm not saying it's right, but buyer beware and all that.

NickK · 9 Aug 2014 at 09:08

Err we had it in our contract that all the jump and stuff from the previous owner had to be removed or have penalties. Also all of the items that were staying/going were listed as part of the contract.

So the place was empty (although a full bin :/) but it was filthy - cleaned the carpets, the walls..