lol that sounds pretty bad. It’s hard to say which is the worst thing done to this place… maybe the fact that he lowered the roof after a fire from an actual 2 storey house to a 1 1/2 storey, and completely built over the porch (porch roof and all, which is still up there under the rest of the house. The porch doesn’t even have a proper foundation and he added a lot of weight to it, so now that corner of my place shifts with the seasons, making my front door jam sometimes, and pop open on it’s own other times.
When he died nobody knew for a while after, so at least I did get new flooring out of the deal. Problem is whoever did the flooring wasn’t much better at carpentry than he was… :/
Oh man. You win (if you can call it that). That’s the dangers of home ownership when you don’t buy brand new (not like buying brand new is any better).
It’s funny to even look at in my opinion… He did the work the absolute laziest way possible. You can still see the old roofline (complete with shingles) of the old porch sticking out of the wall. But the place cost less than the property was worth, so that kind of evens things out lol
ya it’s not “old van stuck to the side of the house” bad, but it’s still pretty rough, especially if you see it in person. It looks kinda straight in the pic, in real life tho it’s pretty far off. I can’t get a better pic of it because of the two massive maples and a pine tree that hide a lot of the house.
Went to demo the fence to save money on a new one, only to find screws of all diameters, lengths, and driver types. Some I swear were alien technology. I wanted to save the materials but I just rented a bobcat and tore it all up.
My garage and basement have 6 different sets of cabinets for storage. The electrical… Ugh, I’ve mostly got it fixed now, but it still needs updating. They converted a pantry into a bathroom with only fake ventilation. They clogged a vent to a bedroom with towels to save on heating/cooling because it had the door to the attic (still haven’t fixed this one yet).
I dread the next DIY bs I stumble across. And I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
My house came with a 100A box with six breakers, all unlabeled. One of them did nothing at all when I flipped it, another produced a loud humming for three or four seconds before tripping off. I still don’t know what the humming was but when I rebuilt one of the walls I found a big scorch mark on the stud next to one of the outlet boxes so I suspect that was involved. The one that did nothing it turns out was connected to an MC cable that had simply been sawed off clean – not even some electrical tape wrapped around the cut end – and jammed down into the framing completely live. At least I was able to repurpose that one into a circuit with receptacles and lights in the attic.
So glad my house is frame on slab and the original owner was in jail for csam most of his life. His niece sold it to us after he did the only decent thing. Haven’t found a single sketchy diy fix in a year living in it aside from the weird DNS settings for the router which I promptly torched once I could afford. Anybody wanna guess why I had to look all the way to the routers DNS?
I uhhh, no I’m good on any further detail on that side. But I often wanted a frame on slab like the cabins at a state park just down the road. So easy to keep clean. It’s a minimalist daydream. Sorry crazy cousin, I can’t house you here, I just don’t have the room.
The ceiling in my living room does not connect to the walls. In fact, the walls do not connect to the walls.
They abused the adage of “do your best and caulk the rest”.
And they couldn’t even do that right! They covered the ceiling issues with crown moulding and quarter round for the walls.
lol that sounds pretty bad. It’s hard to say which is the worst thing done to this place… maybe the fact that he lowered the roof after a fire from an actual 2 storey house to a 1 1/2 storey, and completely built over the porch (porch roof and all, which is still up there under the rest of the house. The porch doesn’t even have a proper foundation and he added a lot of weight to it, so now that corner of my place shifts with the seasons, making my front door jam sometimes, and pop open on it’s own other times.
When he died nobody knew for a while after, so at least I did get new flooring out of the deal. Problem is whoever did the flooring wasn’t much better at carpentry than he was… :/
Oh man. You win (if you can call it that). That’s the dangers of home ownership when you don’t buy brand new (not like buying brand new is any better).
Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
Cheers, mate! 🍻
It’s funny to even look at in my opinion… He did the work the absolute laziest way possible. You can still see the old roofline (complete with shingles) of the old porch sticking out of the wall. But the place cost less than the property was worth, so that kind of evens things out lol
Honestly that’s not so bad I’ve definitely seen worse attempts at expansion
ya it’s not “old van stuck to the side of the house” bad, but it’s still pretty rough, especially if you see it in person. It looks kinda straight in the pic, in real life tho it’s pretty far off. I can’t get a better pic of it because of the two massive maples and a pine tree that hide a lot of the house.
that’s hilarious
but hey, if it doesn’t leak or let animals in, and it’s within budget, it ain’t so bad
Went to demo the fence to save money on a new one, only to find screws of all diameters, lengths, and driver types. Some I swear were alien technology. I wanted to save the materials but I just rented a bobcat and tore it all up.
My garage and basement have 6 different sets of cabinets for storage. The electrical… Ugh, I’ve mostly got it fixed now, but it still needs updating. They converted a pantry into a bathroom with only fake ventilation. They clogged a vent to a bedroom with towels to save on heating/cooling because it had the door to the attic (still haven’t fixed this one yet).
I dread the next DIY bs I stumble across. And I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
My house came with a 100A box with six breakers, all unlabeled. One of them did nothing at all when I flipped it, another produced a loud humming for three or four seconds before tripping off. I still don’t know what the humming was but when I rebuilt one of the walls I found a big scorch mark on the stud next to one of the outlet boxes so I suspect that was involved. The one that did nothing it turns out was connected to an MC cable that had simply been sawed off clean – not even some electrical tape wrapped around the cut end – and jammed down into the framing completely live. At least I was able to repurpose that one into a circuit with receptacles and lights in the attic.
So glad my house is frame on slab and the original owner was in jail for csam most of his life. His niece sold it to us after he did the only decent thing. Haven’t found a single sketchy diy fix in a year living in it aside from the weird DNS settings for the router which I promptly torched once I could afford. Anybody wanna guess why I had to look all the way to the routers DNS?
I uhhh, no I’m good on any further detail on that side. But I often wanted a frame on slab like the cabins at a state park just down the road. So easy to keep clean. It’s a minimalist daydream. Sorry crazy cousin, I can’t house you here, I just don’t have the room.
Yup, technically one bedroom but that’s our gear room, we sleep in the loft. 825sqft, just enough and no more.
Sounds perfect!