Homeowners Share Their Pain on Web

You’ve got mice in your house, bats in your attic and you’ve just discovered that your roof has been sending torrents of rainwater down the inside of your walls for months. But if you think you’ve got problems, just log on to Thathomesite.com (https://www.thathomesite.com), where you can share your pain with hundreds of other calamity-struck homeowners.

Disaster stories and helpful tips from fellow sufferers can be found on the home disasters forum on this witty site, which puts out the welcome mat with a wisecrack from George Bernard Shaw: “Home life as we know it is no more natural than a cage is to a cockatoo.”

Here you’ll find postings on all kinds of household disasters ranging from carpet odor to electric can-opener fires (who knew, but there have been 170 incidents reported so far). There are remodeling catastrophes: Rotted fence posts used for studs? Extension cord rewiring?

The site includes other forums on remodeling, home repair, gardening, appliances, woodworking, real estate, home finance and organizing.