Squiggles
So I have a shiny new house which for the most part, is all ship-shape. There are a few minor issues, a cupboard door hung too high, a cracked tile on the lower roof, a shower that occasionally trips the switch on the electrical box and switches off while you stand there, soap in your eyes.
When I had my pre-inspection, I noticed various lumps and bumps on some of the walls in different rooms. Some of these were where the plaster wasn’t very smooth when it was painted over, others were where the paint had dripped or splattered to leave some unnecessary blemishes. I pointed this out and it was added to my snagging list. When I had my final inspection, none of these issues seemed to have been resolved. This was explained as a confusion between the sales woman and the builders, as while we had naturally assumed the master bedroom to be bedroom 1 and the smaller one to be bedroom 2, it turns out that the builder counts the bedrooms starting from the bathroom and moving out, so they were in fact the other way around. So the builders had gone to look and couldn’t see anything, and had therefore just crossed it off the list, not being sensible enough to go check the other room just in case.
Anyway, to stop this happening again and remove any further chance of confusion, the sales woman drew on the walls over the bumps with her pen, putting big squiggly lines right over the top of them. It probably seemed like a reasonable idea, and certainly made it difficult to not see where the problems lay. The trouble is, the builders have never come back to check my list of problems, so the squiggles have been totally unnecessary. Instead I get comments every time somebody sees one, “what kids have been drawing on your walls?”. The lumps were so minor, they would probably have been forgotten about in time, minor issues seem less noticeable once you have furniture in and pictures on the walls. No chance of that here though, not with the scribbles of a four year old to remind me.
