The hole in our wall...

better be gone, plastered and painted over when I get home!

We had a bathroom adventure before we went to Kelowna in July. When Roslyn and I moved into the Blue House, the taps in the bathtub were stripped and the faucet leaked, leaked, leaked. The plumber came and replaced one tap, but couldn't get the other one off and that seemed to fix the leak...for a while...

Then the mysterious puddle started appearing on the bathroom floor, ostensibly from the shower door, which had never been caulked.

So we caulked it. And called the plumber back to fix the leak again, because now it could fill a large bucket in less than ten minutes. At which point he advised our landlady, K, to replace the taps, faucet and shower head to fix the leakage problem.

This remedy required two small holes to be cut in the drywall outside the bathroom, which we were warned might still be there when we got home, but at least this way we'd be spared the inconvenience of no water in the bathroom.

Well, sure enough, we came back from our week away and there were two holes in the wall in the hallway. And a number of large puncture marks and cracks and you get the picture. Then we went in the bathroom. Our bathtub and shower and tiles and everything in that part of the room were gone and had been replaced with a brand spanking new tub and shower. OH SO PRETTY...except for the cracks and holes and lack of trim, but not to worry, that will come...right?

We talked to K, who assured us the wall would be done in the next ten days...so we hung the picture that was in the hallway back up to cover some of the holes and waited.

One day the guy came back and got plaster all over the picture, but filled the holes...it looked horrible, but it was filled. Then he came back and put the trim around the tub. Which made it look WAY better. But he didn't sand it or measure twice, cut once, and we still had nasty plaster marks on the outside wall, lots of holes and cracks and no paint.

He came back to paint on Sunday. We were on our way out, but K came down and we pointed out all the holes and cracks that were missed the first time around and we left.

When we came home the wall looked funny, but it was wet and dark, so we left it until morning. When much to our surprise, we discovered that he had not fixed all the holes/cracks, used a different colour paint, painted in about six different directions and only did the middle portion of the wall...

I was in shock...or there'd be pictures...K was in shock when I showed her too.

He's coming back today to paint it properly, with a roller in one direction and cover the whole wall with one colour.

So...it better be fixed because I'm getting sick of this as are Alex and K.

MMMmm...grumpy!