lol that sounds pretty bad. It’s hard to say which is the worst thing done to this place… maybe the fact that he lowered the roof after a fire from an actual 2 storey house to a 1 1/2 storey, and completely built over the porch (porch roof and all, which is still up there under the rest of the house. The porch doesn’t even have a proper foundation and he added a lot of weight to it, so now that corner of my place shifts with the seasons, making my front door jam sometimes, and pop open on it’s own other times.
When he died nobody knew for a while after, so at least I did get new flooring out of the deal. Problem is whoever did the flooring wasn’t much better at carpentry than he was… :/
Oh man. You win (if you can call it that). That’s the dangers of home ownership when you don’t buy brand new (not like buying brand new is any better).
It’s funny to even look at in my opinion… He did the work the absolute laziest way possible. You can still see the old roofline (complete with shingles) of the old porch sticking out of the wall. But the place cost less than the property was worth, so that kind of evens things out lol
lol that sounds pretty bad. It’s hard to say which is the worst thing done to this place… maybe the fact that he lowered the roof after a fire from an actual 2 storey house to a 1 1/2 storey, and completely built over the porch (porch roof and all, which is still up there under the rest of the house. The porch doesn’t even have a proper foundation and he added a lot of weight to it, so now that corner of my place shifts with the seasons, making my front door jam sometimes, and pop open on it’s own other times.
When he died nobody knew for a while after, so at least I did get new flooring out of the deal. Problem is whoever did the flooring wasn’t much better at carpentry than he was… :/
Oh man. You win (if you can call it that). That’s the dangers of home ownership when you don’t buy brand new (not like buying brand new is any better).
Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
Cheers, mate! 🍻
It’s funny to even look at in my opinion… He did the work the absolute laziest way possible. You can still see the old roofline (complete with shingles) of the old porch sticking out of the wall. But the place cost less than the property was worth, so that kind of evens things out lol
that’s hilarious
but hey, if it doesn’t leak or let animals in, and it’s within budget, it ain’t so bad