Originally posted by wobbegong
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Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time!
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Originally posted by wobbegongGlad to hear it!
That business with the element wrapped in oily rags is a bit sinister, and "more than once" too!! How on earth did you find it, or do you just rip all the floor boards up as a matter of course?
Do a similar thing with the gas: but you use a thermometer as the meter is too slow to react to, and then look for holes drilled in the pipes.
Central heating: holes drilled, valves removed.
And then there are the previous occupants revisiting the property...Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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Originally posted by threadedYou look out for the disk on the meter starting to spin when you switch the power on, then you go looking for disturbed floor boards...
Do a similar thing with the gas: but you use a thermometer as the meter is too slow to react to, and then look for holes drilled in the pipes.
Central heating: holes drilled, valves removed.
And then there are the previous occupants revisiting the property...Comment
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Originally posted by threadedAnd then there are the previous occupants revisiting the property...
...with a bunch of flowers and bottle of wine for the new tenants...bless!
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Originally posted by threadedI have a good few houses I rent out, buy them at auction and tend to do the 'make habitable' work on them myself. Now when houses have been repo'ed they don't tend to be much kop, and blocked drains is a usual, but I've found the elements from an electric cooker wrapped in oily rags under the floor boards waiting for the 'lectric to be switched back on more than once. And people wonder why repo'ed houses go so cheap...
Against my better judgment I got talked into renting that one out to the battered wives by my vicar, IIRC, well meaning chap, but not quite of this world if you know what I mean.
So I get quite enough fibre thank you very much.
build a new house on your newly vacant plotLife is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh
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Originally posted by hattraSurely you should just insure well, switch on power, collect insurance & then
build a new house on your newly vacant plot
You have to have friends in the fire-brigade. I've heard tell of a cigarette butt smoldering for 2 weeks on a mattress...Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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Originally posted by KyajaeAnd when my missus insisted that I should have taken her advice in the first place, my response? "Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time". She wasn't impressed.
Anyone else have a story to tell?
"Threaded suggested that in the forum"I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostP.S. Do remember that more than one seat of fire makes them a tad suspicious.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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