Bit of a laugh really. It's only when your child buys a house that you
realise how utterly crap most people's DIY is. And how poor a standard
of workmanship they accept from other people. This is the professional
classes I'm talking about of course; the sort of people who can talk the
hind leg off a donkey but don't know one end of a screwdriver from another.

The only lights in the living room were wall lights with 5W CFLs. With
the dimmer at anything other than max they flickered like mad.

The bath drained through the wall to a plastic right angle connector on
the outside wall that couldn't be connected other than for one second
because the pipe through the wall was too short.

The air-cond unit on the side wall was positioned such (low down) that
the brackets threatened to damage any vehicle going up the drive.

The door to the booze fridge actually fell off.

Under the carpet in the corner of the office was a transformer, red hot
because it fed the garden lights and there was a short on the cable.

The block paving ends at the pavement with a 2" drop, instead of being
graded in.

The TV distribution system made me laugh out loud.

One of the security lights is inaccessible without elaborate
scaffolding, and it doesn't need to be there. There are other accessible
locations that would work just as well. It makes you wonder why... I
mean, who would...

There's one of those very elaborate corner cupboards in the kitchen.
When you open it there are shelves on the inside of the door and a lever
pulls another set of shelves along on runners. As found, the door
wouldn't open more than 2". The mechanism was jammed by loose bits of
shelf, rails, etc. The clips that normally hold the whole thing together
were found in a packet in the bottom of the cupboard. Hence it has
dis-assembled.

When opened that cupboard door handle scrapes the oven handle.

The pullswitch in the downstairs lavatory would be behind the door, had
someone not fitted a longer cord and some ingeniously positioned pulleys.

Bill