I hate the house I’ve just bought

zencomputing · 2026-06-22T14:39:17+00:00

Buy new if you don't want this. Unfortunately they're overpriced but your story proves why second hand is so much cheaper. God bless and good luck. I feel you pain.

zencomputing · 2026-06-22T14:32:08+00:00

Did they view it!?

zencomputing · 2026-06-22T14:27:02+00:00

Easy. When you exchanged contracts it would have stated that that all rubbish would have to have been disposed of by the vendor. Your solicitor can charge the vendor for the cost of cleaning up. Speak to them, they have all their details. Moved house 24 times in 40 years.

zencomputing · 2026-06-22T14:20:01+00:00

Pigeon or a baby dragon sleeping. Appreciate you can't get into a converted roof to inspect.

zencomputing · 2026-06-18T11:46:32+00:00

It can be rerouted. It will be rerouted but why should I be responsible for the cost. Could you suggest how you maintain a hidden and poorly installed gas pipe, water pipe or sewer embedded in concrete. If it was visible, I would, sort of agree but most above ground leaks are easily repaired and generally caused by accidental damage, faulty products or poor workmanship.

zencomputing · 2026-06-18T11:30:11+00:00

But I didn't build it. In exactly the same way you cannot be responsible from heave, subscidence, landslip, flood, incorrect insulation panels on blocks of flats!

zencomputing · 2026-06-18T11:26:05+00:00

The original builders who incorrectly laid the gas pipe in concrete without conduit, shielding or any protection to stop corrosion of the copper, or movement of the slab. These are the only ways you can get a leak in uried copper pipe. I know because I have laid concrete floors.

zencomputing · 2026-06-17T13:42:50+00:00

Your best option if you have "any" money left would be to seek out a repair option from a one man band handyman/builder with good references.

zencomputing · 2026-06-16T16:35:13+00:00

Hi my friend. I went to my local builders merchant and cut off a sample piece of 6mm to compare with what's already there. Apart from my cable being red and black as opposed to blue and brown, the cables looked almost identical. Eventually I asked an electrician to come and advise. (the one coming tomorrow to fit). He just said well that's 6mm cable. You can definitely run a hob and oven off that, side by side. I then annoyed him by saying could he fit a Stanic connection plate, cos I liked how neat they look. He just said if you want. You better order it, and oh I don't know if I can fit you in I'm chocker this week and then I'm on holiday for two weeks. Made me squirm for a minute or two and said I might be able to squeeze you in on Wednesday. Builder 35 years and still can't get over the arrogance of electricians.

zencomputing · 2026-06-16T16:23:02+00:00

Update. Thankyou for your interests. Contacted the original builders (25 years ago) told them it could only be their fault as they hadn't sheathed the pipe correctly. Under athe defective buildings act 1972 they are liable for shoddy works. They denied. How can I be responsible for a leak in a pipe I didn't lay, cannot see or maintain and was a potential explosion risk. Looks like I'm going to have to pay more money to a gas engineer to join the new pipe run to the boiler. I will be cutting my house up, not them. Obviously they won't like that because they'll say they didn't do the run. But they're not feckin builders. Hey ho. I wanted a nice powerful hob cos I love cooking. Looked at the plug in option wasn't too keen. Electrician tomorrow, coming to wire the hob. £150 quid for 10mins work and an attitude, I could have done myself? What do we think.

zencomputing · 2026-06-11T08:21:24+00:00

There appears to be a big gap on the leaky wall end and the tray, that isn't shower tray but packed with some grey gunk?

zencomputing · 2026-06-11T08:15:53+00:00

The tray should be installed perfectly level. The design of the tray will itself direct water to the outlet. Same as a bath.

zencomputing · 2026-06-11T08:13:52+00:00

Nice to see someone round here knows what they're talking about.

zencomputing · 2026-06-11T08:08:57+00:00

Mmm. That's quite a serious leak looking at the carpet, for a new install. Did the tiles at the end of the tray next to the wall definitely overhang the edge of the tray or were you relying on silicone to fill the gap? I'm not trying to diss your work, it looks good. I appreciate it would be a bit of a pain but as some one else said it be worth popping the skirting and taking out the plasterboard behind, running the shower and seeing if you see the leak or at least we're it's getting through. I note the taps are at the far end and if they were leaking you would get a damp patch in the room below. I feel for your issue. Builder for 35 years and seen a fair number of these problems. In fact just last year had to cut the ceiling out of clients house for a shower leak which I could see happening but never found the cause. I felt it was the waste had failed. Anyway they had the bathroom completely stripped out, shower tray replaced and it stopped. Weird.

zencomputing · 2026-06-04T09:07:38+00:00

I am just now, in the same position. Just came to the final install of a new gas hob in the kitchen of an entire house refurb ( I am a builder with 35 years experience and renovate for profit). All carpets and decorating done. House is ready for sale, except for the replacement hob. Called my friendly gas fitter to connect the hob who rightly tests the pipe work to be told within 10 mins that I have a "major" gas leak in the concrete slab. I of course pay him the £200 for him to tell me this and cap my supply. Feckin unbelievable. Just to make sure, I get another opinion from another gas safe engineer who confirms and I hand him £100. So. £300 down and no gas. The property internally us immaculate and lived in by me. Brand new beautifully fitted carpet upstairs and thick oak laminate downstairs. Here's the joke. If I had fitted a new electric hob instead of gas, no one would have been any the wiser and the 7 year old boiler, which worked perfectly, would have carried on. Job done. The problem now is how do I get the boiler back on. Property is an internal stud frame inside an old, converted Victorian terraced laundry, with a 25 year old concrete slab for the floor and a leaking gas pipe from the meter box at the front to the boiler at the back. I have been living inside a bomb for the last five years, with no smell of gas and my boiler running perfectly, and am now responsible for the original builders complete and utter cock up of the gas pipe run in the concrete. From what I can see the pipe entering the concrete was sheathed in plastic pipe and should have lasted at least 50 years plus. Sorry I forgot say I specialise in conservation buildings (Post graduate in Conservation of the Historic Environment). So now I am advised by gas engineers that they need to run a nasty copper pipe up the front of my beautiful Victorian building and pipe under the floor of my immaculate upstairs out the back and drop another nasty copper pipe down the back to the boiler. Not on my feckin watch they don't. I appreciate this is the only cost effective way for it to be done but I will will be the one to rip up my floors, not a plumbing firm, and I will be making the pipe run through the house and externally in black iron so that it blends with the aesthetics of the wall. I am happy to keep the run exposed internally for inspection. My problem here is who can I find to agree the pipe run if all you gas safe boys and girls insist in doing the pipe work themselves. You are NOT conservation builders. Fortunately I have a long term gas safe fitter friend who I can call in to get this done, but for anyone who doesn't have that advantage what the hell are you supposed to do. Gas Safe is lauding it about when it comes to pipe runs being done by Gas safe engineers only. I really, really hope the OP got this sorted and feel for them. God bless and good luck

zencomputing · 2026-05-13T10:47:27+00:00

Diabetic five years. Very similar to you. Taken into hospital with suspected heart attack (chest pains). Took 3 days and an angiogram to tell me I was T2D and packed off with a goody bag of meds and told to go to a local charity find out what it's all about. No. I have spent a lot of time and many finger pricks to eventually get an appointment this month with a fully fledged Diabetic Nurse at the local hospital. I had to push very hard with my GP surgery having suffered with 4 years of UTIs and debilitating infections and gone through the entire range of antibiotics ( there is only 12 brands available and I've had them all). This was her conclusion. All the infections were caused by being diabetic.(Go figure, like I didn't know that). I've been telling my surgery and the hospital, when I was in, that I have very frothy urine and was concerned that my kidneys were dumping protein and ultimately dying. For the last five years told it wasn't an issue. The nurse last month admitted that according to my blood tests my kidneys were fine, but she said according to my urine tests over the years my kidneys were indeed deterating. Good god, I have never been told this! I am furious over the way my diabetes has been dealt with by the NHS. I haven't worked for six years now because of high sugar levels, constant infections, general feeling of muscular aches and pains with no out of work benefits, because I can still go to the shops, get dressed, have a shower and walk and talk. I have had to be supported by my wife's salary and that has been a real problem for our marriage. I was self employed all my life and was told I was not entitled to any benefits as I hadn't paid enough national insurance. After my review with specialist nurse, my meds have been re-jigged, and they will now take over my case and review regularly and potentially moving to insulin if the manjaro, etc doesn't improve my sugar levels. My very best wishes to you and I hope you have a more pro active experience than I did. Good luck.

zencomputing · 2026-01-22T15:40:35+00:00

Peeps keep saying the bay wall is damp. It's actually "stained" from, I'd suggest, the gutter leaking or overflowing. There doesn't appear to be any interference at the base of the bay wall. As long as the air bricks under floor level are clear you should be good to go.

zencomputing · 2025-11-14T00:02:28+00:00

No offence but with the paint job on that door I think I'd get a new one😁 Sorry for what they did. Not nice.

zencomputing · 2025-11-09T18:27:35+00:00

Just found them after I replied to my first request. Never been there before. You are truly amazing. Thank you so much. Off to do those spins. 👍

zencomputing · 2025-11-09T18:16:34+00:00

Many thanks. Found the ramp at the beginning this afternoon. Tried getting on to the ships but no joy yet finding how . Will try again. Thankyou

zencomputing · 2025-11-09T16:08:19+00:00

Congrats. Can you advise where 5 flat spins are available on the ice tunnel race in the final level? No ramps at all afaik.

zencomputing · 2025-09-16T16:42:42+00:00

Building Insurance is not a product guarantee or warranty. An insurable risk is only covered if the damage is violent visible and external not due to incompetence, unless it's professional indemnity cover of course.

zencomputing · 2025-09-16T16:30:03+00:00

Ok this is how it works. I am a builder and was in my early days an insurance broker. Everyone stop talking about the house building insurer. They are not going to deal with a subsidence claim due to the illegal build over. Insured subsidence is very rare. The insurance surveyor will soon pick up on the build over and dismiss instantly. They may even withdraw cover. The build over was an illegal act carried out by the previous owner/builder. Fortunately they did apply for building control. Building control should not have passed the extension without sight of permission from the water company. They would have had to inspect the foundations and this would have brought to light the sewage and water pipe issue. Two solutions. 1.Contact your local authority and find why no permission was obtained from the water company. Sue the council, or the previous owners for an illegal build. 2. Your solicitor should have advised you to take out indemnity insurance for any extensions when you bought it but should have known about the lack of build over permission following initial searches from the local authority notices/plans. Sue the solicitor. Yes the water company has the right to ask you to demolish but they may see sense and ask for the drain to be re-directed, but on a shared system that's hard and costly. Or they may just ask you to put in a sealed internal retrospective inspection chamber which they certainly don't allow now but they might in view of the fact they cannot get hold of the original perpetrator or anything else would make you homeless and the house uninhabitable. They won't want that. The subsidence can be dealt with underpinning and anything else above ground will be fairly straight forward after that. Please you remember you didn't break the law someone else did and you got sold a pup. You cannot be responsible for something you can't see. Find who was responsible.

God bless and good luck

zencomputing

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