Moving House

The House from Outside

Well, this post is a bit later than I'd hoped it would be... As the University year has come to an end I was kicked out of my halls accommodation this weekend and moved into a really nice new house. Or so we thought...

We had found a house that was all alone on the side of a main road opposite one of the university campuses which was convenient for me as that is where most of my lectures are but the rest of the house will have to walk twenty minutes to get to theirs, which is still not bad. When we had a look around back in January everything was clean, there were no obvious issues with any of the house, of course it was slightly unclean in places but, what can one expect from a house where six people are currently living? However having now moved a few things in we have started to find a few little problems with the house.

My room

My first impressions were once again very positive, the house was as spacious as I remembered and it seemed pretty nice. It was only after I started looking at the house with a bit more scrutiny I started to notice a few issues. Some areas of the house were unclean and just seemed to have been poorly maintained.

I was then told of what had happened in the morning. My flatmate had to catch a train at 11:30 that morning so that he could go and see his girlfriend for her birthday. But when he turned up at 10:15 to move in the 'previous' tenants were still moving out, even though they had been told to vacate the property the day before. He was not best pleased and ended up missing his train and staying in Aberystwyth.

Some of the issues we found

There were issues with some of the furnishings, mostly that they were unclean which isn't a major issue but it would have been nice to not have to clean a house we had just moved into. A few of the fittings were loosely attached to the walls as seen in the photo below. There was a damp issue in both shower cubicles and possibly on one of the walls in the hall. The bins had also been filled and then had more bags piled around them. This seems to be because there is only one wheely bin but the bins weren't even piled tidily, they had been thrown roughly in the direction of the bin by the looks of things and had just been left dotted around the gravel area.

Hopefully these issues can be resolved or at least noted (for now) so that any damage is charged to the previous tenants and not to us. Anyway, summer has begun and relaxation can begin!