Yesterday I asked my son to help me dismantle 2 double wardrobes in our bedroom. There was a run of 4 double wardrobes along one wall and we'd decided to remove two from the middle and push the bed back into the gap.
As we pulled the second wardrobe out, my son noticed the carpet was sagging alongside the wall. We pulled the carpet back and discovered that the floor underneath was disintegrating! There appeared to be just an inch thick of plaster or cement, but there was nothing underneath to support the plaster! Previously there had been a fireplace and chimney breast in the room which the previous owners had removed. For some unknown reason, they had just filled in the space left with the plaster although there was no support underneath. They had then proceeded to place two large wardrobes over the weak floor.
As we pulled the carpet back the plaster just crumbled away! We now have a hole 4 foot wide and 3 feet deep in our bedroom floor!
It's really quite scary the bodge up jobs some people leave behind when they sell their homes. I only hope we don't leave an horrendous legacies for future owners of our property!
It's all good fun though! As long as the bed doesn't move in the night and fall down the hole... I'd hate to wake in the dining room!
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