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What was your costliest home repair mistake

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By *usman 199 OP   Man
34 weeks ago

Stockport

Jolly Good evening everyone.

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By *bi HaiveMan
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34 weeks ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Buying the house in the first place.

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By (user no longer on site)
34 weeks ago

I ripped out and fitted a new kitchen, reboarded the ceiling everything. And at the end I could hear a bouncing pipe from the water surging. So I cut 30 holes in the brand new ceiling to try and find it.. only to find out the water pressure on the stop tap was turned on too high lol!

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By *929Man
34 weeks ago

bedlington

Nothing overly closely thank god

Changing a stuck pressure relief valve on a boiler and ended up spraying the circuit board with water and fried it think a new one was best part of 200 quid

Most annoying which I’m still yet to fix as dreading doing it was installing a stupid waterfall tap on a double ended bath (which never ever got used by 2 people) both were the exes choice, the tap spout has fell to bits due to a non brass screw that rotted away so have to fill the bath with the shower attachment of the tap,I built the bath into a tiled surround so choices for access are either

- rip bath out having to take out tiled surround in process then retile entire bathroom (floor to ceiling on all walls) as tiles no longer available

- go through outside wall

Can’t be arsed to do either but going to go with the second option

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By *abio83Man
34 weeks ago

chester

Thinking I could save on scaffolding by ordering a long reach telehandler to put a new flue down the chimney..the sums were right…but not the guy in the safety cradle up front! Hit the chimney stack completely down, smashing it to bits along with the roof slates!

No heating over Christmas! 1k chimney rebuild, 3k slate rebuild and had to put 2k of scaffolding up anyway!!

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By *abio83Man
34 weeks ago

chester

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By *a LunaWoman
34 weeks ago

South Wales

Having my central heating boiler put in the attic when I had central heating installed. Also had to have ladders put in so it was accessible.

That fecking boiler played up ALL the time and a) I hate heights and b) I hate spiders.

Lesson learnt. More emotionally expensive in the long run.

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By *urry BlokeMan
34 weeks ago

Stalybridge

Buying the house that Jack built

Literally everything I've touched has turned into a much bigger job

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