New house, hidden stash bonus!!!

[slowmotion]

Surely a call to the man who owned the property previously is in order. You could suggest that you'll happily send them to his new house addressed to his wife, or alternatively you'd be happy for him to collect them subject to a 'processing fee' of £500?

Splendid!
You didn't happen to be an Agony Aunt in your previous employment , did you?

 

[EltonFrog]

I have just remembered, a house I had in Guildford about 25 years ago I found a Beano under the Lino in kitchen. I still have it somewhere.

 

[Pikey]

Fess up @Pikey. Not even a tiny peek at this stash that you claim to have "found".......?????

I have only just got the heating and electric on, give me chance!!!!!!

 

[TreeHuggery]

when we moved into this house, I was ripping up the carpets and found £100. Yelled "effin hell" and Mr TreeHuggery came running in to see what I'd found.
As I was waving the money around, he was staring at the now exposed floorboards.... looking at a very bad case of woodworm, which cost more than £100 to eradicate.

 

[Arjimlad]

Were there any helmets in evidence?

(2 for the price of one , there )

I couldn't possibly say, officer... possibly some boobies on the beat though..

 

[marshmella]

I couldn't possibly say, officer... possibly some boobies on the beat though..

Maybe a large truncheon and some handcuffs in there somewhere?

 

[marshmella]

I think Mary Berry is in that one. She cooks a fine pie does that gal.

...I won't bother watching my copy then

 

[Dec66]

I think Mary Berry is in that one. She cooks a fine pie does that gal.

With Paul Hollywood?

I think I require mind bleach.

 

[Pikey]

O the mullets, the horror

They went straight in the bin.

 

[classic33]

You never know what you might have missed.

 

[Cuchilo]

Not my house but a few i have done work on have had some spookey secret finds.
One was a place in rural france. The place had been empty for a very long time and a friend of mine bought it. He came back to collect the windows i had made for him and told me he had found hundreds of what appeared to be 1940's childrens shoes neatly laid out in the loft space in one of the barns.
When i asked what he did with them he said we just left them where the are
Another was in Twickenham, the customer had just bought the house and i was fitting out the place with wardrobes and bookshelves but the sizes of the rooms had me baffled. Some where smaller than others but directly above each other so should have been the same.
The lady of the house pointed out a wierd hatch in the kitchen so i poked a tourch in there to see a hidden room about 2ft wide and 10ft long with a chair in it. No way in or out
My guess is a priest hole.......

 

[srw]

When we had the wallpaper stripped in one of our rooms as part of the refurbishment a few years ago we found a love poem from the person we bought the house off to his wife written on the plaster underneath. It probably dated from the 1960s and actually wasn't bad.

 

[MichaelW2]

Thanks to the wonders of t'internet, our verges are free from Hedge Porn.
I did see a CDROM by a roadside in Denmark, some kind of Scandinavian video, judging from the text.

 

[slowmotion]

When we had the wallpaper stripped in one of our rooms as part of the refurbishment a few years ago we found a love poem from the person we bought the house off to his wife written on the plaster underneath. It probably dated from the 1960s and actually wasn't bad.

I often feel like leaving a message for the previous plumbers/builders/ electricians when I discover their hidden work. Unfortunately, they didn't leave their phone numbers.

 

[MichaelW2]

One of my favourite hobbies is reading old newspapers spread under carpets in old houses. EDP from 1973 can be fascinating.