-
Christ, there are so many mad things in the place we bought that just make no sense. I'm going around bit by bit and learning/fixing each one. It's good to learn the DIY skills, but my attempt to put a positive spin on as I uncover yet another bodge or terrible decision is becoming more difficult as time goes on...
This sounds exactly like the first year in our new house, even down to the annoying waterfall taps.
Ours was bunged up with lime scale and would shoot two jets of water directly at your crotch. A good clean and de scale sorted it.
TTM-
It's a really lovely place, and I feel bad resenting the situation because I realise I am very privileged to be able to own a property at all. The previous owners were clearly nuts, though. They've just splurged on some really non-essential weird stuff, and ignored some of the basics.
For example they have an electronic aqualisa bath and shower system in the main bathroom which includes remote controls so you can turn them on and off remotely. Why anyone would want that, I've no idea. They've also got a smart thermostat, and things like fancy bifold doors and a huge skylight. All of this we know they put in while they owned the place.
On the other hand, 3 of the 3 toilet seats are absolutely hanging off their hinges, one was genuinely unusable. When I came to replace I realised they had tried to refix one of them with "no more nails" or similar and rounded the screws for the fixings. This made removal of the fixings a real bitch of a job. One of the radiators was hanging off the wall when I moved in, and on removal it is clear this has happened 4 times previously. Each time they've tried to bodge it back on with "no more nails" rather than just use the correct fixing types for a radiator into plasterboard. They had a loft conversion done in 2017, but haven't insulated between the remaining loft void and the living space so it is always freezing.
Ugh ... I am gonna really enjoy a good sit down and rest once a couple of final bits are done. Every spare waking hour for the last 2 weeks have been taken up by finding and fixing new shit.
hazzelfrazzel
Christ, there are so many mad things in the place we bought that just make no sense. I'm going around bit by bit and learning/fixing each one. It's good to learn the DIY skills, but my attempt to put a positive spin on as I uncover yet another bodge or terrible decision is becoming more difficult as time goes on...
The latest mad thing is this tap in the upstairs bathroom. It is a waterfall style tap and had 2 little holes on the waterfall part. See the attached pic.
I assume there is meant to be another part that slots in there that they have lost. Of course, this means that water dribbles out all over the side of the sink.
I can't see any markings to help me find a brand and model of the tap to see if spares are available. Google lens isn't finding anything, and looking at other similar taps this doesn't appear to be a common design with the strange holes.
I think the cheapest bodge is to sugru it. But I think that'll annoy me every day and fail at some point.
I think the better solution is to just replace the tap. As you can see it's not in great condition, and I don't love these waterfall style taps that seem to be so common now. I'll have to measure up but could probably replace with something like this https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/beba_12251/cube-beba_12251-basin-tap?refsource=apadwords&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=17997676053&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyeWrBhDDARIsAGP1mWRcXugdGQQHkhXCkpRkodSEOLMLk8PB_xz0sTkNOcKKoUebXLa7zQ8aAn05EALw_wcB
Anyone want to try and warn me off replacing taps who has previously done it? It's a modern integrated sink, so probably not the easiest to start with. Or other options I haven't considered?