# Crappity Crap Crap Crap

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 8, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431 "2000-09-08T00:02:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431/1 "2000-09-08T00:02:40Z")

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Brand new house. Wonderful. Great. Lots of cash paid for it. Lived in 1 month. Leak. Ceiling cracking. Drywall buckling. Water stains. So far, weak customer service. Slow timetable. Must breathe. About to explode. Ready to rip someone apart. No complete sentences. I fear for the next person who has to deal with me about this.

Anger soon to be spewing. Mullinator soon to not be so lovable and huggable.

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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431/2 "2000-09-08T00:39:12Z")

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Call me a bastard, Mully. I don’t mind.

I worked in construction for a time, and almost ALL new houses had at least 1 roof leak, and 1 basement leak. Go check your basement.

–Tim

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**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431/3 "2000-09-08T01:19:44Z")

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::: quietly sweeping up plaster :::

{{{{Mully}}}}

I am so sorry. May the Good Drywall Fairy watch over you. If it would help we could go out in the backyard and indian leg wrestle? 😉

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**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431/4 "2000-09-08T02:34:24Z")

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Mully, I know exactly how you feel. We didn’t have our house even a year and the bathtub overflow was screwed up causing a leak into my kitchen.  
One day last winter I couldn’t get the back door open… and when I finally did I couldn’t get it closed! The apparent cause is the frost heaved the back of my house … where we had just put on a deck that summmer, and it moved the door jam. This same frost heave also caused a major crack in the wall of the basement. Fucking frost.  
In my yard I have some kind of cinch bug that is eating my lawn, leaving brown spots all over the place, but don’t worry… nothing a bunch of chemicals can’t fix.  
I could go on and on and on… but you get the idea :eek:

Fucking house, it really makes renting look good!!

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**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappity-crap-crap-crap/32431/5 "2000-09-08T03:31:11Z")

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> almost ALL new houses had at least 1 roof leak, and 1 basement leak

Oh boy, I really didn’t need to hear this. I close on my new house on Sept. 26, and I’ve already had [one major catastrophe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36312).

Sorry 'bout your troubles, Mully. Keep your fingers crossed for me.