Re: Buying A House - New Neighbours : Fri May 08, 2015 12:24 pm
JerryChicken wrote:
:D 
Oh I saw a cracking example of this many years ago, an old couple selling the house that they had bought from new 30 years previously, more than that he had been a joiner and had worked on every house on the estate, I have to say in his favour that he bought one of the better positioned ones though. The poor old sod had terminal heart desease and could barely walk five yards but he propped himself up and showed us around his house which was obviously his pride and joy.
As were all of the cupboards and secret hidey-holes that he had built into the cavity walls over the years, he literally went around touching parts of what looked like walls only to have a hatch spring open and a space the depth of the internal partition wall be revealed, with great pride from him, the fact that you couldn't put anything in these three inch deep cupboards seemed to have passed him by - there were hundreds of them in the house, at one point he showed us the standard Woolworths medicine cabinet in the bathroom, then he pressed something and it unhinged itself from the wall and swung open to reveal another cavity wall cupboard behind it, "Its where I keep me meds" he said, as if his heart medicine was top secret or something.
We didn't buy the house.
Oh I saw a cracking example of this many years ago, an old couple selling the house that they had bought from new 30 years previously, more than that he had been a joiner and had worked on every house on the estate, I have to say in his favour that he bought one of the better positioned ones though. The poor old sod had terminal heart desease and could barely walk five yards but he propped himself up and showed us around his house which was obviously his pride and joy.
As were all of the cupboards and secret hidey-holes that he had built into the cavity walls over the years, he literally went around touching parts of what looked like walls only to have a hatch spring open and a space the depth of the internal partition wall be revealed, with great pride from him, the fact that you couldn't put anything in these three inch deep cupboards seemed to have passed him by - there were hundreds of them in the house, at one point he showed us the standard Woolworths medicine cabinet in the bathroom, then he pressed something and it unhinged itself from the wall and swung open to reveal another cavity wall cupboard behind it, "Its where I keep me meds" he said, as if his heart medicine was top secret or something.
We didn't buy the house.
I actually laughed out loud to this! The guy that had our house before us didn't like stripping wallpaper, he didn't just wallpaper over the top, he built a new stud wall against the existing wall, then when he didn't like that wall finish, he stuck twin-wall plastic sheeting to it, my kitchen cupboards were 4" short from the walls when I had removed it all!
Been in my first house for about 18 months and the saying "there's Nowt so queer as folk" definitely springs to mind when thinking about my neighbours - maybe it's just us!
