Owning a home comes with a lot of responsibilities. It's not just unclogging the drain and mowing the lawn; there are plenty of unforeseen situations, just waiting to happen.
As shown by the subreddit 'Well, That Sucks,' the ceiling might decide to collapse, or a pack of uninvited sea lions might crash at your property for a surprise visit.
Hopefully, the sense of pride that you get from investing in your own place is strong within these folks!
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Guess Someone's Gonna Be Late For Work
"Dude just get your house cat off the car" "That's not a house cat that's a smaller version of a Tiger and it has claimed my car, I'm not losing my throat."
I wouldo not go to work because I would be in pretty bad shape after doing a little psi psi psi to the kitty, hahahaha
It's a bobcat, not a mountain lion... Unless they are very different of the European bobcat, you can chase those away no problem...
That photo was taken in Arizona where bobcat attacks have definitely happened. Attacks are rare, but I certainly wouldn't fùck with it.
Load More Replies...I would be late to work because I'd be in the hospital after trying to pet big kitty.
My Cat Brought A Live Mouse In And Lost It In My Room. Again
She didn't lose it, she is expecting you to catch it. She is trying to teach you how to hunt. You are just being a very difficult student.
Soft can-openers would starve without us!
Load More Replies...Mine did this with rats. Once he let one go in the middle of the night ON MY FACE. Another he let go in the kitchen... that was over 8 months ago. He was killed in a traffic accident 3 months ago and it's STILL THERE. It avoids all the traps. I li
I live in a victorian property with a kitchen with loads of gaps that's impossible to keep completely clean. I hear him rattling around all the time. And apart from poison being incredibly inhumane, if he ate it he'd go to his nest behind the walls to die and I couldn't get to him and there'd be a horrific stink.
Load More Replies...I love the "again" part. My cat only ever gave me dead cockroaches and palmetto bugs.
My cat did this too. I could see it run across the floor at night. A few days lated I found its guts under my bed. 😖
Yucky. Such a wonderful surprise when they do that. Our old farm cat used to leave the mouse heads and/or other certain specific mouse body parts (like the stomach or bladder) at our back door on the deck. So disgusting when you don't look before you walk out and step on it and it either makes a crush or a pop sound.
Load More Replies...The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University recently published its latest quarterly Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) report, predicting a 5.9% decrease in home renovation spending through the second quarter of 2024.
This report, which offers a "short-term outlook of national home improvement and repairs spending to owner-occupied homes," claims that home improvement spending is predicted to drop by $29 billion from Q2 of 2023 to the end of 2024.
Sunlight Through This Glass Doorknob Started A Housefire
Downvote this if you like, but it's not really smart to install those either way.
No one's going to disagree with you! Plus metal doorknobs (brass, at least) are naturally antibacterial.
Load More Replies...Yeah, that thing is a magnifying glass. If you really want/need decorative glass door knobs, buy faceted ones, those scatter the light (and make pretty colours!) instead of focussing it on one point
I have the cut crystal ones from my grandma's old house - we mounted them on a board and are now used as a coat rack. :)
Load More Replies...My mom broke a 60" TV because she put her reading glasses on the coffee table and the sunlight was shining through the living room window at a perfect angle and the lenses chose the screen as the focal point and burned three holes into the screen...📺 👓 ☀️
This is why my friend who's super into the paranormal says to always cover your crystal ball.. it's less about demons and more about fire prevention
Be wary of glass spheres in general. Saw a 'crystal ball' for sale at a garage sale last year. I guess about the size of a grapefruit. The lady said to be careful where you place it because she had it in a planter (outside) as a decoration and the sun shining through it started a fire in the planter. So yeah - that is definitely a thing. In the right conditions they focus the light like a magnifying lens.
The Only Path Back To My Room Blocked By Cute But Incredibly Angry Sea Lions
Don’t they get angry if you block their route back to the sea? Maybe that’s why they didn’t want to walk through them?
Load More Replies...Probably the Galápagos Islands. I visited, and there's one island that looks exactly like that. Sea lions just everywhere.
Load More Replies...My Car Broke Down This Morning On My Way To Work And Had To Be Towed. Not 5 Minutes After I Got Home, My Ceiling Collapsed
Everything comes in threes, if you wait long enough.
Load More Replies...Your car broke down was someone looking out for you otherwise the ceiling would have most likely had your name all over it. Just sayin
A previous iteration of this report, from January 2023, predicted a much steeper decline in spending, going from 16.3% at the end of 2022 down to just 2.6% by the end of 2023.
While the predicted drop of 5.9% for the first half of 2024 is much less shocking, it does emphasize the fact that, for another year, home improvement spending is expected to remain on a downward spiral.
After A Grueling Day At Work Without Food Where I Had To Wait 4 Hours For A Sample To Arrive Which Got Canceled, I Come Home At 7pm To Find All My S**t In Garbage Bags Cause The Cleaners My Landlord Sent Cleared The Wrong Apartment
Uh, that doesn't seem like a good idea, or even a legal one-
Load More Replies...Oh, that's a day that would have me cursing more than a teamster with tourette's.
No, most likely they would get a half a**ed apology and $25 off their next month's rent.
Load More Replies...at least it was still in the apartment and not out on the curb or in the dumpster
The landlord let them in with a key without proper verification it was correct? That's a major F up!
That be a mighty lawsuit pending, including an appropriate charge for home invasion, property damage etc...
My Tomatoes Look Like A Felled At-At
Check around your property of any ships from the Rebel Alliance. I've seen this before, but on a much larger scale and in snow...
Blizzard Blew The Man Door On My Garage Open Yesterday
He's probably just happy that his owner is stuck with him
Load More Replies...Cat: "Well? My tuna isn't going to magically appear. Get to melting all that and be quick!"
Drove My 17 Year Old Son To Visit My Childhood Home
My childhood home got taken down too, right after we moved to our new house. I visited it when they had taken it down but had not thrown away all the rubble yet. We walked around in the rubble for a bit, it was very interesting, but seeing big chunks of stone and recognizing our wallpaper on those chunks, made me feel very queasy.
This may indicate shifting priorities, but it's nearly impossible to talk about the drastic changes in home improvement spending over the last few years without reflecting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its influence on that specific market.
While there’s no denying that the pandemic had a devastating impact on the economy and life as a whole, it resulted in a drastic boom for all things home improvement.
While the U.S. economy shrank by 3.5% in 2020, spending on home improvements and repairs grew by more than 3%, to nearly $420 billion, as people modified living spaces for work, school, and leisure.
Delivery Driver Hung Food Order On My Fence And My Dog Ate It Every Single Bite
Who leaves food hanging on a fence? Zero chance I'd be paying for that "delivery".
Sorry but I would not go into a yard with a large dog loose.
Load More Replies...Sorry, that's a pit bull mix that is loose in the fenced yard. Delivery guy should have called but I see this happening. I am not walking into that yard...period.
My cat absolutely would get into that bag 10x before my dog. I can leave a plate in the floor and the dog will wait to be given a bite. Opened a tub of cotton Candy a little abandoned at my house and left it open on the bed to get a bottle of water. Came back and the cat was chowing down like it eats grape cotton candy all the dang time! Lol
Load More Replies...Some of y'all are wound a bit tight today I see. Every vet (3 and a tech if you're counting) has told me people food is fine if that is what your dogs are accustomed to. Stray/at large dogs don't pick the onions and garlic out of the trash they tear open and gobble our left overs from and they aren't dropping dead on the sidewalks. They will also stuff themselves with whatever they find. Incidentally, when I notice (dunno about you) random dog poo at the park, on city grass... not at someone's home, it's formed poo (I know, great visual and dinner convo!) not sloppy, slimy puddles of goo from eating whatever they've found or been fed from the back doors of restaurants. Like babies, fed is best! Calm down, geez. :)
Onions and garlic are poison to a dog definately beside some other things. But it is the amount of it that makes a dog sick or kills it. Chocolate is poison to dogs, too. In small amounts it raises their heartbeat, makes them feel sick. Big amounts can kill. I know people who fed their dog chocolate because 'one piece doesn't kill anyone'. Of course it did not die because it was just a little bite but it wasn't healthy for the dog. And stray dogs' are more tolerable to bad food than a dog who has a home and is used to eat proper dog food.
Load More Replies...I'm undecided. The owner knew about their dog, but the driver did not. So I put most of the onus to the owner of the critter.
Load More Replies...Who leaves the house when they know that food delivery is coming? It takes like 20 minutes are people seriously that impatient
This Is Why You Don’t Put Up Solar Panels If You Live By A Golf Course
Hmmm, yes, but it is the responsibility of the gold course to ensure that people aren't launching golf-ball-shaped-missiles at people's houses. The golf club should be paying to replacement of those panels, and also erecting netting to prevent this. If the netting can't be erected, they should be reconfiguring the layout of the course to ensure this does not happen again.
The house may have been sold with a clause indemnifying the golf course against any damage due to errant golf balls. Many times houses are sold with the understanding that this may happen due to how close they are to the course.
Load More Replies...You could very easily install a protective cage-like covering for these...
Left My Bathroom Window Open For 3 Weeks Whilst I Was Away And A Bird Laid A Nest In My Sink
Also my guess. But in excuse of the pigeon, I once read that their original habitat have been steep cliffs - so they really only needed a few sticks to prevent the egg from rolling of the really narrow spots where they nested on (too narrow to actually hold a fully build nest).... but yes, it still looks so pitiful to my eyes 🤭 *Edit: spelling.
Load More Replies...Not the worst thing that could happen when you leave your window open for 3 weeks
Of course, they don't need anything more than that. Don't hold them to the level of some tree bird, they aren't tree birds and don't need no fancy nest.
Load More Replies...Pigeons - *lays three individual twigs down* “This is the nest of all nests!!”
Stepped On A Ketchup Packet
It's called gravity -- it dropped out of a bag or off a plate 😉
Load More Replies...Nice distance. I worked at a Mickey D's in high-school, with a KFC next door. We'd line up ketchup packets and stomp them into KFC's parking lot.
I did this to my brother once. It was outside - I thought I was being clever and said 'watch this' and stomped on it. I expected it to squirt. I did not expect it to squirt all over him. OOPS! He took it well but I felt bad because he is a nice guy and I was just trying to squirt it in the parking lot, not on him.
I did this once, too.. but, instead of squirting sideways across the pavement, the packet somehow shifted and I ended up wearing ketchup on my pants, shirt, and hair. 🤪
Load More Replies...Spent soo much time throwing packets on the pavement outside our food stand at the fair. Never had such a great response!
The abrupt lifestyle and work changes that the pandemic brought on, coupled with the home equity growth, made it possible for many homeowners to delve into projects they would have otherwise skipped in other circumstances due to lack of time or funds.
However, as infection rates decreased and many people were able to leave their homes and return regularly to public spaces, home improvement spending rates dropped.
I'm Never Going To Recover Financially From This
You're just egging them on you know... 🥚😁
Load More Replies...My aunt and uncle had an abusive relationship. Once, he got mad and threw a carton of eggs at her. They hit the wall. She refused to clean it up, as he made the mess. She was a hoarder, and her house was filled to the brim, so I never visited. About five years after Uncle died, I was with Mom when she wanted to see Aunt. The egg mess was still on the wall.
It’s the worst to clean up, ina restaurant id rather drop and clean - industrial quantities of soup, pastas even custard but fucķ the shiț out of even cleaning 6 dropped eggs
Eggs doesnt need to me in the fridge at all btw. Saves you from accidents like this if your fridge is so small
I mean, if SIX eggs are too expensive, how are you gonna pay for all this???
Washing Machine In The Apartment Above Me Was Pouring Water For Days, And No One Noticed Until It Started Pouring Out Of My Circuit Breaker
I've had this happen but it was the toilet from above apartment and it smelled really bad!!
That's quite a crappy shituation to be in. Urine for a rude awaking when you walk in on that mess. It would make most people flushed in the face.
Load More Replies...It is quite easy to not notice these things if the leak is at the back and going into the floor rather than forming a puddle in front of the machine. I had a problem quite recently with the now defunct hot supply to my washing machine. It seems that repeated use of the hot tap caused the pipe next to the isolator to repeatedly expand and contract causing the isolator to open ever so slightly. Worse, the cap that had been fitted to the open pipe *after* the isolator was not watertight. Only a slow drip, but enough to cause a lovely mess in the apartment below. Not properly capped off with a copper cap. And yes, I paid to redecorate the kitchen of the apartment below.
This has happened to me before except the washer was dripping above the toilet. It's fine when you're not using it but when I was on the toilet it was dripping on my head. It lasted 4 days
Days? Really? I've had lots of water related incidents. It has never taken days for water to go through walls, ceilings, floors...it takes minutes, seconds even, but never days.
Hot water heater on the third floor busted and came through the 2nd floor apt above me and into mine. Luckily it wasn't too bad.
My 6 Year Old Swung On The Gate Once
Jesus no wonder it broke. That brick is old and looks like it has not been maintained at all.
Hopefully he/she wasn't hurt, but that was an accident waiting to happen...
If the internet has taught me anything, it's that people think that they mass nothing, and that all objects are built of battleship-strength materials and bedrock-solid anchorages.
Installed A Lovely Sunlight In My New Bathroom, Without Realizing It Would Perfectly Frame That Horrid Tower
Looks almost artistic. I'd probably redesign my bathroom to match the aesthetic.
If you were just wanting the sky light for the sunshine and not the view you could put up privacy film. Still nice light, but hide that tower.
Deane Biermeier, resident Forbes Home expert and general contractor, says that "homeowners spent a great deal in the past couple of years on home renovations. The wave didn't have much of a chance of lasting very long. It's not surprising ... that the combination of higher borrowing costs and economic uncertainty will continue to have a negative effect on the renovation market."
"I don't see home improvement spending increasing any time soon. My hope is that home renovation spending will level off and stop falling by the end of 2024," Biermeier adds.
I Met The Guy Putting A New Roof On My Apartment Today
A contractor was putting a roof on a rental my wife and I owned. The previous owner had nailed plywood on a leak and put shingles on it. One of the roofing crew ended up in the attic.
(Oc) Meet Bonnie, Our 3 Month Old Collie. During The Night She Discovered A Can Of Blue Paint With A Loose Lid. We Call This Her 'Blue Period' Since She Is Obviously Going Through Some Artistic Phase. (The Chinese Rug Cost Nearly $6,000.)
Who buys a $6000 rug?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!
Load More Replies...My dad and mom always said," You can have kids and pets or you can have nice things and money, but never both".
Pets and kids are nice things! But yes, they do eat my money.
Load More Replies...Nail polish wouldn’t spread as much as that I don’t think on a dog’s fur. Could be a tester pot that they chewed?
Load More Replies...Dog Decided To Bust Through My Bedroom Door Like The Kool-Aid Man While I Was At Work
I hope you didn't rage on him. When I see pictures of dog damage my first immediate thought is that I hope they didn't get horribly punished.
It's a hollow core door mad of veneer. Most doors are like this. Very rarely anymore so you see solid doors on the interior of homes
Load More Replies...One day, I had my dog walker text me a slew of pictures. My dog did this to multiple doors and windows in about a four hour period.
Sounds like your dog walker wasn’t doing a very good job.
Load More Replies...Ever thought of using a doggy daycare? I believe even PetSmart has them.
This Is My View From The Bathroom Floor, Looking At The Hole In The Ceiling I Just Fell Through
You learned a valuable life lesson - only walk on the framing boards in an attic, never on the insulation or in between. Drywall is not going to hold your weight.
That was likely a misstep. Takes good balance to walk on the edge of a 2x8.
Load More Replies...When your first instinct after falling through the ceiling isn't to pick yourself up off the floor, it's to grab your phone.
Well, if you fall that far, you probably shouldn't be moving; you should probably be as immobile as possible calling 911 (or whatever your emergency number is in your country).
Load More Replies...However, Derek Walczak, Forbes Home Advisory Board member and owner and general contractor at Walczak Design + Build, says not to get your hopes up about lower pricing or more flexible workers' schedules just yet.
If you do find contractors that offer these seemingly too-good-to-be-true features, he advises to approach them with caution. "Pricing is a product of cost to operate, materials and, of course, cost to do the build. I don’t see any of those factors decreasing."
Someone Drove A U-Haul Into My Bedroom
My goodness, the lack of structural stability, the construction materials, the lack of insulation!
Given the wonky diagonal support system and general lack of clutter, id venture to say this was post-cleanup/mid-repair...
Load More Replies...In case people think the “H” is what is left of the wall, the wood “H” is supporting the second floor until they can get somebody to repair the house. I am stating this because of all the comments of how our houses are just made of fragile materials. US housing is made with what we have an abundance of: forests.
I think it’s more the external brickwork stopping at about 1.5 m then what appear to be poor thin wood cladding above, essentially ending the cavity wall at 1.5 m. This offers very poor insulation.
Load More Replies...No wonder houses are so fragile and flammable, they’re using wood as support instead of steel and concrete
Do You Want To See What God Did To Me Today
Saguaro cactus that was very very old. I can't tell if it was wind or a tree that knocked it down. It's likely hundreds of years old tho.
Load More Replies...Looks like it was rotting inside and couldn't bear it's own weight anymore.
Also looks like there was a storm coming bc of the trees blowing and the clouds
Load More Replies...Depending on where this is, it could've fallen over because of excessive heat. I think Arizona had like almost of month of extreme heat which cause these guys to fall over. Even these hardy desert dwellers can't take that amount of heat for that long, apparently.
Obviously you've violated one of the ten commandments. But which one is represented by a cactus knocked over by the wind?
Was Lying In Bed When I Heard A Pop And Shattering Glass....
That happened to my husband when he was in our guest tub/shower with glass door. He was actually taking a shower at the time. I herd a pop and ran in there to see my husband standing in a heap of glass. The breakage sounds just like it looks. He was bleeding at his knees and ankles and the top of his feet. Lots of blood. He was covered in glass "dust". He had to carefully rinse himself because he couldn't just "rub off" the glass dust. He only needed a few bandages and bandaids. It was really scary.
New fear unlocked. Thankfully I have a shower curtain instead.
Load More Replies...So I had a 2 pane sliding glass shower doo...that I came home to one door having shatterd just like this...so to be safe I decided to remove the other door...and t shattered JUST like the other one as I was removing it...no one hurt or cut but what a mess!
I was sleeping not too long ago, and was awakened by the sound of shattering glass. Immediately got out of bed, armed myself, and checked all the exterior windows. Found nothing amiss, so figured it was a vivid dream and went back to bed. The next morning I went into my kitchen and found the glass oven door shattered all over my floor! I hadn't even used the oven for about a week - I have pets - ferrets - but they're blocked off from the kitchen, and I seriously doubt even a large dog could have done that if it even wanted too!
Overnight Coworker Sent Me This Last Night
I had questions so went to the original post to find out more. Per the OP, "1) What happened was whoever put the pallet in the overhead didn't put it in right. It was put in sideways and not wrapped properly so white trying to remove a different pallet it came down. 2) The powder in the photo is an absorbent we use for paint spills this photo was taken about an hour after it fell."
And every time I see it, I say "just give up and paint the floor with it. Heck, it's already partly done!"
Load More Replies...I used to load 10000 pound pallets on the third level once in a while.
Load More Replies...This happened before to a friend where she worked at a home improvement store. The whole metal shelf collapsed and the paint cans went everywhere spilling paint all over the store. They had to close the store for a few days to clean it all up.
If I didn’t NOPE the heck outta there-I’d say you need to give me a raise effective immediately, give me double time for any OT, and THIS will be all I do until finished. Don’t expect me to help customers, or anything else- and I happily will just be a well paid cleaner for the duration!!
"As a design and build collaborative, we do not mark up our services based on a booked pipeline or availability," Walczak explains. "With that being said, there might be contractors out there that are in need of work and [are] willing to lower their [prices]."
Walczak notes you shoul bde wary in these instances, “I would caution homeowners to ask what is being excluded from the scope and what steps may be skipped to make up for the decrease in price."
I Have 30 Seconds To Sweep This Up Before The Cat Pees On It
Then put the cat into another room and clean up instead of taking pictures.
I’m sure OP is just exaggerating lol, you just can’t leave the litter unattended before you clean it up or the cat will get at it. Standing 2 feet away from the cat is fine, you can just push it away if it gets too close. Y’all take these posts so seriously lmao
Load More Replies...I had a trashbag of very used kitty litter rip open (not very Hefty, after all, ahem) while arriving at the top of the stairs.
When Beefie and Sushi moved in, the most impressive thing was how incredibly quickly they did business A and B. I only went from the bedroom to the bathroom and then back again, which took maybe 60 seconds...when I was back in the bedroom, both litter trays were steaming...wow! 😹
Real First World Problems
Magic The Gathering cards dropped on the stairs. A huge (and very impressive!) collection.
Sorry to say this but those are Yu Gi Oh cards
Load More Replies...Prove you don't have a girlfriend and live in your parents' basement...
Having a hobby that doesn't involve sports says nothing about your living-situation.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of when I was a kid and I had spent an entire day making my stamp collection look nice in the albums. I grabbed the albums to bring to my room as I was going to bed and..... bang. All three albums were suddenly on the floor with stamps all over the place. I went to bed crying..... 😕
Went Under The Porch To Get The Decorations Today, Turns Out Wasps Have Been Squatting…
Why would you store things under a porch without putting them in some sort of container? Even plastic tubs are better than a trash bag!
When my friend and her husband moved to Florida, they stored some items in their attic. They didn't think about how hot an attic can get in Florida. Her extensive candle collection melted.
After Ripping Out My Front Door, I Learn There Are Different Sizes For Doors
Seriously, didn't think to measure first. If they can't even figure that out to start, they probably should hire someone else to finish the job SMH
As stupid as this looks like, I can relate. I once assembled a quite huge thing (terrarium, self-build) in one room, even measured the ceiling high in the room where it should be placed in (you know to erect it without issue and also having enough place for the lamp tops) to only figure out that the flat I was living in had not the ...
Load More Replies...Especially since a lot of older houses were apparently built by eye and not yardsticks—-which existed back in the day. FFS. Every one of the windows and doors in our early 20th century rural ex-farmhouse are a different size. Usually by a fraction of an inch, just enough to be more expensive to replace.
Everything was probably site built and fitted to the rough opening
Load More Replies...So, someone has reached the age where they feel competent to remove and replace a door, and never at any preceding time have they noticed that some of the doors they've encountered in their life are bigger than others, and some are smaller than others?
I learned the hard way that no-one makes 27-inch ovens anymore. My RE agent was otherwise pretty awesome, but I was mad as hell at her suggestion to replace the old oven. (Turns out it was quite workable, too.) (They still make them, technically, but they are rare and therefore EXTREMELY expensive.. more than twice as much as a 30-inch.)
There was a summer kitchen with the house where we grew up. We used it as a playhouse. My brother would always kick the door open to go out. Once, when he was 13 and I was 10, he kicked it and it fell to the ground. We looked at each other, and we both said, "Dad's going to kill us!" My brother handed me the (heavy, wooden) door to hold while he moved the hinges. He forgot to move the hinges on the frame. So there was six inches of door that wasn't going to fit. My contribution was to say, "Well, it fit before!" Not knowing what else to do, my brother sawed six inches of the bottom of the door. We were both surprised at the six inch gap at the top of the door after he rehung it. The parents got home from work, and we're standing at attention, stupid, guilty smiles plastered on our faces. "What did you do?" "Nothing." When Dad found the door, he just shook his head and laughed. Turned out the wood was rotted, and Dad knew it needed to be replaced. Until he died, we'd tease my brother that if he ever had a problem, all he needed to do was to say six inches off of it.
So what does this mean for current homeowners? Is now a good time to renovate or purchase a home?
Although the housing market is uncertain, if you do decide to renovate, Walczak recommends keeping high-impact, high-ROI home improvement projects at the top of the priority list, while also considering how long you plan on staying in your current home to further inform you on what projects are worth it and achievable.
Walczak says that a good starting place could be remodeling kitchens and bathrooms because both typically add value and improve your daily experience within your home.
If you do decide to renovate, keep the long-term in mind, specifically if you are thinking about moving in the (near) future. “In the next five to 10 years, the neighborhood could completely change, so as long as you’re smart about any renovation and the construction is well thought out and designed, then you should make your money back and have better everyday quality of life for your family," Walczak says.
1:30 Am And I Hear A Loud Bang Downstairs
This one needs a hell of a lot more context. Who stacks firewood in such a way that so much of it could land on top of the car?
Where on earth is your woodpile - no sane person stores it on the top of a garage.
It was a stack against the wall. But they didn't stack properly such that the base was farther away from the wall than the top. Or have anything to secure the whole stack.
Load More Replies...100 Year Old Family Cabin Burned To The Ground First Day Of Vacation
Just Came Back From My Vacations And Found This Growing Into The Ceiling...
Mold can grow in a week under the right conditions.
Load More Replies...Well That Sucks...... My House Got Hit By Lightning Yesterday
Genuine question: why are American houses built with wood mostly, why not bricks and concrete?
Because it is cheaper, but still can be used to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. It also depends on other environmental factors in any particular region. America is a huge country. Not all houses are built in the same way.
Load More Replies...Our house was built in 1870 out of wood with a stone foundation. We also have a lovely lightening rod on our home which grounds it.
The answers to why build with wood are hilarious! This looks like a house on the east coast and NO it's not cheaper to use "wood". I'm in the good ole USofA and my house is built with bricks and siding (which is made of composite and has cement in them) and it doesn't necessarily depend on where you live.
It's quicker to build houses with wood vs brick (bricks are often used on the outside so the property looks like it is brick built but they still may have a timber frame). That's another reason why they are cheaper. You save time, you some money on what you're paying builders.
Load More Replies...Opened This Door While Helping A Relative Today
Apparently so. The OP on Teddit said that there had been an old water heater up the stairs that 'cràppèd out and flooded the place' ... this is the result. TEN YEARS LATER!
Load More Replies...Who Left The Water Running?
Omg, that is definitely something that would ruin my day. That's insane.
Can't make up what I'm looking at. Is that a flooded basement or crawl space?
These Homeowners Were Out Of Town When Their Pool Service Technician Left The Water Running. As A Result, The Pool Overflowed And Contributed To The Failure Of This Deck
Better hope it's a company with proper insurance and isn't just a guy with an LLC.
Load More Replies...Stepmoms Mothers House Was Looted, They Took Everything, Even The Lights
That speaks in volumes! (sorry, I'll see myself out)
Load More Replies...Lucky she doesn't live in a neighbourhood with a more intellectual class of thief.
Dropped My Ravioli Taking It Out The Microwave At Work
There's a mini-fridge too (the microwave is on top of it). That must be illegal in the workplace, surely? Food storage and preparation area next to a toilet?
Department of Health will have field day in that facility. Just saying.
Why the hell do you have a food prep area in a toilet and cleaning area where you sh¡t and have chemicals? That violates several health codes.... I'd seriously call the health department before someone gets seriously ill, or, dies from poisoning.
Just Fell In My Shower
If that base wasn't installed with even support under it, it wouldn't take much to shatter it.
Load More Replies...Upstairs Neighbor Out Of Town For 3+ Weeks With An Overflowing Sink & Now Our Bathroom And Bedroom Walls & Ceiling Are Soaked Through
My Microwave Lunch Jumped Up And Flipped
Girlfriend Broke Up With Me So Thought I'd Make A Cheesecake To Cheer Myself Up
You have literally 0 context and you immediately jump to that conclusion
Load More Replies...It Turns Out My New Roomba Is Perfectly Tall Enough To Absolutely Obliterate Itself On The Bottom Of My Swivel Chair
Wednesday, The Stairs To Get To My And Three Other Apartments Collapsed
Everything about that looks completely janky, even if it hadn't collapsed. Local building inspector most definitely did NOT sign off on that.
Yeah... the lack of footings definitely says not up to code. And with that sag in the middle, it's been there awhile.
Load More Replies...2 Weeks Later And The Dust Is Still Everywhere, Had A Lithium Battery Explode While Charging, Fire Extinguisher Dust Was And Still Is Everywhere
Annoying but at least OP had an extinguisher to hand; the alternative is much more frightening
Yup, and it will probably be there forever. Extinguisher dust is the absolute worst. When I did a course in emergency response, they actually told me to refrain from using this type of extinguisher as best you can, get a CO2 one instead.
Not to mention that it eats right through metal and paint. That stuff is dangerous.
Load More Replies...So you've left it for 2 weeks. What, did you think it would clean itself up?
Obviously they didn't (leave it), you are not serious are you ?!! They took the pic, cleaned up, but 2 weeks later still found particles. Like you can get with glitter
Load More Replies...Vacuumed Disposable Cutlery Under My Kids Bed
Great for kids cutting play doh tho and reusable
Load More Replies...Do You Think My Lunch Is Done?
Per OP, they'd been cooking using the stove (with regular pot, not Instapot) but started having power fluctuations due to storms. So they turned on their generator and plugged the Instapot in to that line, & left the house. Meanwhile power came back on, but they never turned the burners off after the power went out.
Grandparents House Caught Fire While They Were Away For Thanksgiving
Well.. Dish Soap Is Not Meant For The Dishwasher I Guess
My husband did this once after I gave him SEVERAL warnings. When this inevitably happened, he told me not to say a word as he mopped it all up. 🤣
I once squirted a bit of dish soap on a few plates before putting them in the dish washer - big mistake!
No, no it isn't. A friend of mine did this once when we shared an apartment. He was majoring in chemical engineering, but often did odd things like this.
My Cutting Board Delivered With A Small Defect
or charcuterie boards, it WAS a nice cutting board
Load More Replies...Find a competent carpenter with the proper clamps and glue. The right skills will make it as good as new.
Load More Replies...New Couch Has Cushion Velcro On The Wrong Side...
Neighbor Across From Me’s Trash Cans. I Don’t Know What Happened To Them, My Dad Says They Weren’t Like This When He Left For Work In The Morning
Someone likely shoveled ash from a fireplace or wood stove without making sure it had fully cooled.
It looks like yard waste. Cut grass can get hot enough to start a fire of it is bagged or put in a can.
Moving, Exhausted, Checked Into The Hotel Room And Omg Wtf
That’s really not that bad 😝 it’s an old building. I feel like someone’s being a little spoilt here
Not Quite How I Wanted My Morning To Start
I think it's called having different aged children.
Load More Replies...It’s looking like melamine to me, which when damaged from wetness and also being old, takes on a shattered toffee look, then it would crumble like wet plywood
Load More Replies...Trying To Clean Your Oven
I Was Emptying Out The Dishwasher And As I Picked Up A Glass It Exploded In My Hands Anyone Know How I Can Prevent This From Happening Again?
My guess is it wasn't a dishwasher safe glass or one that's been heated up and cooled off too quickly one too many times
My sister had that happen while she was hand-washing a coffee pot. She's had two surgeries on that hand so far.
Call your neighborhood exorcist to expel the poltergeist that shattered the glass.
Bucket Of Paint Fell From Attic, Wiping Out Dresser, Carpet And Walls
My 15-Year-Old Son Decided To Move His Sister's Jeep Behind The Garage To Make Room For Another Vehicle, But He “Forgot” It Had No Brakes. So, This Happened To My Fence
Neighbors Insurance Doesn’t Want To Pay For Damages Due To It Being Cause By Nature…
That is because BP only grabs 1 picture when there are multiple. The other two on the OP show the damage.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: Insurance never wants to pay. Back when I was delivering court documents, one insurance lawyer told me it has become industry standard policy to never pay unless they are sued.
I always thought it ironic that insurance companies offered policies to protect you from thieves.
Load More Replies...A person's tree falls into your yard and damages your house, your insurance pays, unless they knew the tree was diseased and could fall - good luck proving that though.
Looking at the condition of the shingles and lack of granules they probably don't want to get their insurance company involved because they'll tell them they need a new roof or the insurance company will drop them. The neighbor would only be held responsible if the tree was unhealthy.
Take a look at the other two pictures on the OP for a more accurate assessment of the damage . The OP has filed on their own insurance after the neighbour's insurance refused, s they will have to fight the neighbour's insurance.
Load More Replies...That's corporate greed for you insurance companies greedy little f****** parasites
The damage is pretty bad, take a look at the OP for the pictures that BP left behind.
Load More Replies...Acts of nature are covered, but the owner of the home's insurance pays. They don't care if it fell from your neighbors yard, or a tornado picked it up a block away and threw it at your house. The only way the neighbor would pay for your house is if you were negligent, you acknowledged the tree was going to fall and did nothing about it.
Load More Replies...I don't think the door being torn in half and most of the roof collapsed was caused by neglet. Ohhhh nevermind, you just made assumptions without looking at the rest of the pictures. Yikes.
Load More Replies...Essential Oil Destroyed My Brand New Kitchen Island. How Can I Fix This?
If it is wood, then sand it back to the bare wood, and re-varnish. It's a simple enough task.
Just spread your essential oil all over the counter. At least it will match. 😉🤭
Instead of posting on here, type that same thing into YouTube and you'll find the video to show you how to fix it.
My Tempered Glass Mixing Bowl Exploded Today. Now I'm Wondering If I Should Toss The Rest Of The Set
If its pyrex (lower p) it's sheit...you need to get Pyrex (capital P) which is fairly good. If you want really good get vintage Pyrex.
It's the all caps label that is the superior product. The company sold off the name so as long as it's not capitalized it's the low quality breakable type.
Load More Replies...Found This Behind My Wardrobe Yesterday... I'm Extremely Allergic To Mold...
Not necessarily. The happened behind my ex's huge dresser during a particularly wet winter. I have a mold allergy as well, though possibly not as severe as the OP. Before he pulled the dresser away from the wall, I'd only noticed a faint mildew smell. Once he uncovered it, I had to avoid the house until he tore out and replaced the wall. The only thing I can figure is that the dresser blocked most of the spores from traveling through the room.
Load More Replies...You are not allergic to mold, everyone can get respiratory deseases from it
Oh my god, I bet you're one of those people that correct peoples' pronunciation of their own name. Source: I'm allergic to mold (yes I'm sure before you try to correct me too).
Load More Replies...I am curious why the door k**b is wired to the house? That's some Home Alone shite right there
I Finally Got My Roommate To Move Out But This Is What He Left Me After He “Cleaned”
My Friend’s House Had A Really Nice View Up Until A Couple Of Months Ago
How dare someone build a house according to regulations and building it two story like every other house in the street.
Oof you should see Seaside, FL. Every house just keeps adding a story so they can have a view of the Gulf.
how much are you willing to pay. I good lawyer could have prevented them from building a 2nd story and blocking your view. Happened to a friend of mine. He got stopped because the woman across the street could longer see the lake.
I Just Got Back To My Apartment After Winter Break And Found My Bathroom Trashed
Comments on Reddit suggest a leaky faucet that apt management fixed. Apparently they just didn’t clean up the mess.
Load More Replies...Looks like there was a plumbing leak. And they went digging! Plumber's take great pride in trashing as many things as possible to make a s****y shituation shittier. Sparkies are great at making messes too.
Some of these things are not like the others... "My roof caved in!" "Upstairs flood soaked my ceiling and walls!" "Oh yeah, well I spilled a small amount of cat litter!"
Some of these things are not like the others... "My roof caved in!" "Upstairs flood soaked my ceiling and walls!" "Oh yeah, well I spilled a small amount of cat litter!"
