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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Iokastez on 2026-01-12 02:39:30+00:00.
Tomorrow (today) is the last day of a very long term tenancy and I’m due to give the keys back at midday (nine and a half hours time). The letting agents and landlord are pernickety and have always found fault with ridiculous things like ‘the bushes in the garden are too bushy’ ‘there are leaves on the lawn’ (day after a massive storm) etc etc, and left me with an enormous list of things that need to be done before keys are handed over.
So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks absolutely SCRUBBING this house, cleaning skirting boards with a toothbrush, filling in every picture hook hole and painting walls and bleaching grouting and buffing taps and trimming those damn bushes - the house looks better than it did in the original rental listing photos.
It’s 2am and I’ve been here for 18 hours today; just giving the front room a last coat of shiny white paint to smooth over 8 years of scuffs and furniture nicks and eyeballing getting at least some of my £4k deposit back….
…and I just tripped over a 10l can of white emulsion and kicked it over. Onto the dark grey, shampooed-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life, thiiiiiiick pile carpet.
I’ve thrown a very diluted mixture of paintbrush cleaner, washing up liquid, and hot hot water over it, scraped as much up with a rubber broom, bath towels, and everything to hand as I possibly can, and I’m just sitting here staring at a two foot wide paint puddle on a £40/sq.m carpet in THE BIGGEST ROOM IN THE FUCKING HOUSE and I just needed to tell someone.
(I did the maths. £1200 to replace the carpet in this room. Please god someone tell me how to fix this.)
TL;DR - Spent weeks scrubbing my rental house because end of tenancy and landlord is a pernickety fusspot… and accidentally tripped and kicked a massive tin of paint all over the £1200 carpet mere hours before I’m due to give the keys back