Spilt paint, burst pipes and plaster falling off walls are amongst the most common DIY disasters encountered by new housebuyers, according to research from Aviva.
A study of around 1,000 recent home-movers found that people spent on average more than £10,000 in the first year doing up their new properties with none out of ten of those surveyed trying to carry out the work themselves.
However 39% of these admitted to a DIY disaster while doing up their new home and worse still, when things went wrong, more than half of DIY-ers (54%) had to call in a professional to put right their mistakes.
The most common DIY disasters revealed by the study are as follows:
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