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  1. Chris White

    Chris White Well-Known Member

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    I was wondering what was under the sheet when I walked into this property?


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    OMG!!! Is that dirt on the floor?
     
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  3. Bran

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    Hopefully.
     
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    I found a 'how to' book on sex tucked away on a cupboard shelf.

    Unfortunately, it was not very good and I read it wearing gloves. I think I left it in the same place for the next tenants.

    I left the front of a car in a roof space once as I couldn't take it. I bet its still there (Chester Rd, Annerley) :)
     
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  5. Chris White

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    It was a filthy lino floor - it came up well though

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    Took more than a bit of Jif.

    Looks great though. Which city? And who did the kitchen?
     
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  7. Chris White

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    Ipswich, last year

    Its a Bunnings Kaboodle kitchen that I had one of our handymen install + sparky and plumber.

    Underneath the lino was fine - funny it put a lot people off though (which was good for us)

    I better leave it there for this thread, don't want to take it off course.
     
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    I found an ornate looking hand bell. Think Game of Thrones "Shame! Shame!" bell.

    Not a bad find in my opinion.
     
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  9. ww2_nut

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    I subcontract for the DOH and do rubbish removal and house cleans for the Dept. I regularly find money at houses and find all sorts of items that they either couldn't carry with them when they do a mid night runner or stuff they forget they have hidden away.
    This week alone I found about 20 X Rated HARDCORE adult dvds which were hidden under a wardrobe which I threw out, a set of barely used golf clubs in the back of a shed behind lots of crap and new still in there packaging children's toys
    In the past I have found a barely used Layzboy leather recliner, all sorts of dvds, playstation games, cast iron driveway gates which I used as a feature at my place and all other stuff. Its amazing what people leave behind when they move out of DOH properties
     
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    Sure you did ;)

    What do you do with the stuff you find, you allowed to keep it?
     
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    Haha, I didn't want to keep the adult dvds.
    I kept the golf clubs and the lazyboy and used the cast iron gates as a feature at my house.
    It makes doing the job interesting as you never know what you will find :)
     
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    In about 40 days i'm going to be gutting a run down property.
    I got a feeling I'm going to find some horrible stuff.
     
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    My parents lived in a house previously owned by a serial killer in the UK. They never actually discovered anything in the house, but found out years later his daughter was buried in the bathroom.
    Little bit of a morbid story- Sorry:oops:
     
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    Buried in the bathroom? How did that work?
    :confused:
     
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    No idea. Maybe a renovation gone wrong? o_O
     
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    What are the tell tale signs of a decent fingernail scratch?
     
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    wow never expected this thread to take off like it has. So many interesting stories!! Thanks everyone for sharing.
     
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    Knew it was somewhere up there, looks like an old QLDer.
    What did you with the old stove nook?
     
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  19. Chris White

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    Made shelves and enclosed it - so makes a good pantry now.
     
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    Good stuff, that's what I was thinking. And just one more off topic, did you leave the little window for light?
     
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