I forgot all the weird little quirks that always pop up when you move into a new place.
Posted by
TFox
Apr 29 '10, 06:37
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None of them are permanent "oh shit, we're going to have to deal with this for years" stuff, but the kinds of things you'd never discover until you move in.
Examples:
The toilet is mounted so close to the wall that the tank lid is scooched forward a half inch, which means that the toilet seat falls down when you pee unless you hold it up while you go. Which I think can be fixed with a thinner seat and cover, or if I can pull the seat forward as far as it goes and screw it down tight, but those plastic toilet seat screws aren't great for screwing anything in tight.
The little pin in the bath spigot that you pull up to switch to the shower head works great, but when you push it back down, it doesn't 100% turn the shower head off. So you still have a 25% water pressure shower coming down while the bath runs.
The oven door came off its hinge yesterday.
All the cast-iron radiators have the hand dials to adjust the steam pressure except for the one in Jacen's room, which requires a wrench to adjust, and it's open full throttle, so when the heat turns on it sounds like a steam train is running in his room. Uber loud. How he sleeps through it is beyond me.
All fixable, but this is the charm-slash-headache of old adorable houses, I suppose.
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