The 2024 update: Bought our house in July 2022, we’ve had three leaks that have caused various issues…

[gamer.tv]

1) From a conservatory roof where a plastic sheet had shifted and cause the roof to leak when it rained. Fixed with a broom!

 

2) a leak through our kitchen ceiling which turned out to be from a completely incorrectly fitted/sealed bath and from a set of corroded pipes (£8500 cost)

 

3) recently in our kitchen we noticed our floor bulging and then a touch of water coming through. We’re getting some kind of ingress either from an outside pipe (disconnected) or there’s an internal, slow leak from a water feed that runs behind our sink and oven). We’re going to try and dry out the floor and see if I’ve fixed the issue or do we need to do something a bit more. Annoying as we’re only a few months away from applying for a loan through our mortgage company to replace the conservatory and a lot of the kitchen. Luckily, the floor is concrete and not wood so hopefully it’ll just fuck up the underlay and the floor tiles and can hold on for a few months (literally when we have the cash and the start date is booked in, I’ll pull up the floor and get some temporary covering. (Will cost about £80,000 with all the work we want doing). 

 

 

Fucking houses man.

[Dodger]

Since I bought my house I've had to replace the A/C, water heater, fridge and washer and dryer and have it painted. On the plus side it's doubled value so that's nice. 

[SmugPrick]

Ive done HVAC system, water heater/softener, pool pump motor, and had to saw into the patio to replace a pool return pipe that had cracked. Im sure Im missing a few things, but all in I think ive dropped close to 20k into my place. Not too terrible!

[SuperSpreader]

We did

• 65k kitchen remodel
• 7k foundation
• 3k AC repairs
• 15k electrical 
• 15 patching, paint, trims
• 12k chimney install
• 15k appliances
• 15k tile/additional materials 

I still need to redo decks, scrape and exterior paint, and that AC isn't gonna last too much longer. 🥵