Thanks so much for all your comments on yesterday's rant - it seems it's touched a nerve with lots of you and I am not alone in my pain haha!
Well, he came back today and finished off.
His version of it that is.
Quite honestly I've decided I cant be arsed to moan any more, he's clearly incapable of doing a good job and doesnt want to, he was barely civil today ignorant git (Mr Doodles said he made a point of telling him he'd given up his Sunday to finish the job!! SUCH a good job he didnt say it to me I'd have ripped his mucky neck off if he had, it would've sent me over the edge! I'd already secretly considered keying his stupid van when I left the house and it was parked outside, almost wish I had done now!)
He's replaced the chipped tile (which to be fair I didnt even ask him to do). The worst thing is I had to go to work and he caught me on my way out and asked me to look it over to make sure I was happy...obviously when I got home and had a proper look I could then see it properly when I wasnt rushing out the door grrr...
One of my main complaints was about the window sill which would get standing water behind the trim because the trim was sticking up about 5mm above the tiles...he's redone ALL the windowsill and angled the tiles so they slope to the front to drain the water off...just one problem though - yep, you guessed it, the trim still sticks above the freakin' tiles FFS!! He must be thick as.....
So now for life, I'm going to have to dry off that bloody window every time I have a flipping shower. Ok, thats only once every 3 years ; ) but even so!!
He's boxed in the pipes but left a gaping gap at one side and another down the side of the loo so it doesnt really look that neat, and the boxing in has actually shown that the tiles on the wall dont even match up to the floor where they meet, at one side of the boxing it's about 2" out! I didnt see this at the time he asked me to check as he was stood at the offending end, I shouldve pushed him out of the room so I could see properly, AGH, I'm so stoopid! I've already got some polyfilla to fill in the gaps myself because I knew he wouldnt do a good job of it (bought from Tesco, not out of my makeup bag thankyou very much!). He's put the bath panel on and that's not even on right either, it's all stuck out here and there, I'm leaving that for the nice plumber to see cos I know he'll be peed off at that and do it right (unlike his crappo cousin, he prides himself on his work!) He couldnt even be bothered to sweep his mess off the floor today, dirty bugger, says it all really, especially when I'd swept it and cleaned it before he got here so he was working in a clean area.
Overall I'm sure everyone would think it looks lovely and it is 1000% better than it was and I'm probably being very picky, but I am a nightmare when it comes to straight lines and stuff, I have a very annoying nack of being able to measure very accurately by eye only to within a couple of mm's, so you can imagine how things not being levelled and matched up are going to bug me!
I'm just going to have to shut my eyes when I sit down for a poo and not look at that damned ugly tile under the lovely radiator! I might even replace it myself if I can be bothered! The one saving grace of this bathroom is that they've tiled over where the airvent was and that means we wont get so many bloody 8 legged freaks in there now! I never could understand why there were so many till I saw the size of the hole behind the vent which looked like Hagrid's Spider forest in Harry Potter! Never seen so many cobwebs in all my LIFE! I swear there were a million eyes looking through it! eeek!
So, the final piece of the jigsaw is to get the shower screen in later this week which the good plumber is doing, yeehahh! I know that will go without a hitch.
I then need to paint the ceiling, scrape all the grout and plaster off the window, clean it head to toe and then paint all the woodwork and get a door back on. Thank god we hardly ever get visitors lol! When my mum sees the tiling she'd better not dare comment (she does tiles rather well) or I will put her in a bloody home and leave her there till she croaks!
So if you see me in the January sales I will be hunting down a skinny tallboy cabinet and some accessories that are bargains because the Doodlebank is well and truly brock and bankrupt now lol!
Did someone mention kitchens? Maybe 2014 will be the year!!
Well, he came back today and finished off.
His version of it that is.
Quite honestly I've decided I cant be arsed to moan any more, he's clearly incapable of doing a good job and doesnt want to, he was barely civil today ignorant git (Mr Doodles said he made a point of telling him he'd given up his Sunday to finish the job!! SUCH a good job he didnt say it to me I'd have ripped his mucky neck off if he had, it would've sent me over the edge! I'd already secretly considered keying his stupid van when I left the house and it was parked outside, almost wish I had done now!)
He's replaced the chipped tile (which to be fair I didnt even ask him to do). The worst thing is I had to go to work and he caught me on my way out and asked me to look it over to make sure I was happy...obviously when I got home and had a proper look I could then see it properly when I wasnt rushing out the door grrr...
One of my main complaints was about the window sill which would get standing water behind the trim because the trim was sticking up about 5mm above the tiles...he's redone ALL the windowsill and angled the tiles so they slope to the front to drain the water off...just one problem though - yep, you guessed it, the trim still sticks above the freakin' tiles FFS!! He must be thick as.....
So now for life, I'm going to have to dry off that bloody window every time I have a flipping shower. Ok, thats only once every 3 years ; ) but even so!!
He's boxed in the pipes but left a gaping gap at one side and another down the side of the loo so it doesnt really look that neat, and the boxing in has actually shown that the tiles on the wall dont even match up to the floor where they meet, at one side of the boxing it's about 2" out! I didnt see this at the time he asked me to check as he was stood at the offending end, I shouldve pushed him out of the room so I could see properly, AGH, I'm so stoopid! I've already got some polyfilla to fill in the gaps myself because I knew he wouldnt do a good job of it (bought from Tesco, not out of my makeup bag thankyou very much!). He's put the bath panel on and that's not even on right either, it's all stuck out here and there, I'm leaving that for the nice plumber to see cos I know he'll be peed off at that and do it right (unlike his crappo cousin, he prides himself on his work!) He couldnt even be bothered to sweep his mess off the floor today, dirty bugger, says it all really, especially when I'd swept it and cleaned it before he got here so he was working in a clean area.
Overall I'm sure everyone would think it looks lovely and it is 1000% better than it was and I'm probably being very picky, but I am a nightmare when it comes to straight lines and stuff, I have a very annoying nack of being able to measure very accurately by eye only to within a couple of mm's, so you can imagine how things not being levelled and matched up are going to bug me!
I'm just going to have to shut my eyes when I sit down for a poo and not look at that damned ugly tile under the lovely radiator! I might even replace it myself if I can be bothered! The one saving grace of this bathroom is that they've tiled over where the airvent was and that means we wont get so many bloody 8 legged freaks in there now! I never could understand why there were so many till I saw the size of the hole behind the vent which looked like Hagrid's Spider forest in Harry Potter! Never seen so many cobwebs in all my LIFE! I swear there were a million eyes looking through it! eeek!
So, the final piece of the jigsaw is to get the shower screen in later this week which the good plumber is doing, yeehahh! I know that will go without a hitch.
I then need to paint the ceiling, scrape all the grout and plaster off the window, clean it head to toe and then paint all the woodwork and get a door back on. Thank god we hardly ever get visitors lol! When my mum sees the tiling she'd better not dare comment (she does tiles rather well) or I will put her in a bloody home and leave her there till she croaks!
So if you see me in the January sales I will be hunting down a skinny tallboy cabinet and some accessories that are bargains because the Doodlebank is well and truly brock and bankrupt now lol!
Did someone mention kitchens? Maybe 2014 will be the year!!
Loved reading your bathroom saga, hun - I'm glad it's finished, even though not to your standards. I would report him to the bathroom inspector people and get him 'dun'!
ReplyDeleteForgot to say yesterday, you looked fab on the telly (fainting episode aside!) Lol. Keep up the good work.
Sending best wishes for Christmas.
Love Jan xx
I had no words last night & I have no words tonight. Why can't people do their jobs properly? Unfortunately, you're not alone.
ReplyDeleteI think you have done very well to keep your sanitary, (I mean Sanity) Very well done love... I hope your kitchen in 2014 goods well.... :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe you aught to report him to Cowboy Builders! What a terrible week and boy it sounds as if he didn't have a clue.
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis had some lurverly tall skinny cupboards, but that's no good for a budget sadly. I got mine from Homebase which was a tad cheaper, maybe in the sales you'll be lucky enough to find just what you want. Ooo, just seen a spotty pig fly past the window! now there's a thing?
ReplyDeleteA friend who follows your blog sent me a link to your saga with the message 'you're not alone'! I feel your pain! I'm still reeling from a 6 week saga having a bathroom converted to a wetroom (should only have been 2-3 weeks). It took 4 weeks to do the tiling! I also have to sit on the loo with my eyes shut. Everybody tells me it's really nice. I can only see all the problems we had and the faults that are left behind. We'd waited 21 years from our last bathroom makeover. We're hoping we will never see the need again :)
ReplyDeleteJust to say, we had one guy - plumber/heating engineer - who has a good rep on CheckaTrade and lists his other skills as tiler amongst others and wetrooms as a speciality. I'd say ... in his dreams! Since he's been gone we've had to adjust our new cistern as it wasn't flushing properly and also overflowing. We found packing left in it and readjusted everything ourselves. Our new hand basin wasn't draining properly so we dismantled the ubend to find .... packing! Took all that out and it drains perfectly. We've decided that he's a tiler in his dreams and probably a plumber as well. We will not be using him again and his CheckaTrade rep has taken a nosedive!
ReplyDeleteOh Peejay! Never heard of Checkatrade. Our plumber has been great but he recommended his cousin the tiler and I think he's a bit annoyed about the job tbh. I'm still waiting for the plumber to come back and do the shower screen and I'll be telling him that I'm not impressed overall. The annoying thing I never even mentioned is that we had to pay £185 for a skip to take the old suite away and now I STILL have a bath and toilet to get rid of again! Peejay it sounds like yours was much worse than ours, this has only really been since the beginning of December so I cant complain about time, but as you said, all you can see is all the faults!
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