How often do things break on your property?

[bwana]

Welcome to home ownership - stuff breaks. Fix it and move on to the next thing.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

I would say 1 thing every 6 months.

There is 1 big thing I fear is the electricity in my house. When you go to the DB board and switch all light switches off, half my lights still stay on. Same with plugs and their respective switches. One day that is going to break.

Wait till you try to sell the place and see what it costs you for an electrical CoC.

 

[My_King]

Wait till you try to sell the place and see what it costs you for an electrical CoC.

Jip, I think Im ****ed in that regard

 

[SAguy]

How did the CoC pass?

CoC's aren't worth the paper they're written on.

In what world does it make sense for someone to basically score their own work and give themselves a gold star?

 

[SykomantiS]

CoC's aren't worth the paper they're written on.

In what world does it make sense for someone to basically score their own work and give themselves a gold star?

Hey I don't make the rules. Just asking because it sounds really dodge.

 

[neoprema]

We've been living in this house for a few years now (first we've ever owned), and I'm just curious - how often does everyone else experience random things breaking down?
I've determined that the house isn't particularly old, but perhaps not maintained very well. A few shortcuts were certainly taken with regards to extensions that were made to the house, but It doesn't look run down or neglected at face value. Over the course of a typical year, it seems to be luck of the draw that one thing breaks, I fix it and then the next thing goes, then I fix that... a nice game of whack-a-mole, it seems. In the total time we've lived here, It's been all types of components from garage doors to gate motors to sliding doors, carpeting, tiling, plumbing issues, roofs and ceilings and so on.
Some would say it's normal wear and tear, but I don't remember so many things breaking down so often in any of the houses we lived in during my childhood or any of the properties where I was renting later in life.

I bought a house after living in a townhouse for 20 years.

I feel like all i'm doing is repairing stuff and my credit-card looks like a warzone. Its not necessarily bad maintenance either, its just that things pop up all the time, some of them stupid and small, others not.

In the 20 years in the townhouse I was in I spent R30 000 on maintenance. I've spent more than that in the first 3 months in the house lol.

 

[SAguy]

Hey I don't make the rules. Just asking because it sounds really dodge.

Just venting my own frustrations with electricians, so gatvol of them.
Got a CoC when I did renovations and when I was checking out some stuff I realised that it's a complete mess.

So I need to get it done over again which is probably gonna cost me a good few R10k's

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Guest toilet every two months.

ShaunSA monthly visits?

 

[Stokstert]

Almost never, I am still sitting with a lot of stuff I wish would break, then I could have a reason to replace with modern things.

 

[jambai]

Just venting my own frustrations with electricians, so gatvol of them.
Got a CoC when I did renovations and when I was checking out some stuff I realised that it's a complete mess.

So I need to get it done over again which is probably gonna cost me a good few R10k's

Highly unlikely over 20K .You hardly rewire a house for a coc.You correct stuff in board or fix earthing but only rewiring is most liklely lights wired in incorrect cable,

 

[Obieone]

Over the last 22yrs; water leaks due to vrot copper pipes and the odd light switch. Floor tiles replaced in the bathroom, now I need to do the kitchen. Replaced the flushmaster internals on the toilet and a few tap washers.

DB MCB/earth leakage replaced in error ( there was an earth fault on a fluorescent light).

 

[GMAN03]

DB MCB/earth leakage replaced in error ( there was an earth fault on a fluorescent light).

I've been there too. Eventually traced it to a day/night switch which had earth and neutral swapped so the RCD thought the operating current was leakage. Weird thing is it affected me from the day I moved in with at least 2 random trips a week. I don't know how the previous owners lived with this.

 

[Obieone]

I've been there too. Eventually traced it to a day/night switch which had earth and neutral swapped so the RCD thought the operating current was leakage. Weird thing is it affected me from the day I moved in with at least 2 random trips a week. I don't know how the previous owners lived with this.

Mine would not reset at all, turns out it was the ballast that failed and welded itself to the metal housing of the light, a clever mate of mine soon found the problem.