Problems, problems!!

I know, this is a very long overdue post. I can't promise that it will be everything it should be but I'll try to cover the issues from the past few weeks!! As promised, here is the background on the main causes of our stress:

The tile problem - we decided that we would like to consider alternative borders for the bathroom as we weren't sure that we had picked the best option so we took one of our bathroom tiles to a showroom to compare. As we were doing this, my boyfriend noticed that the pattern on the tile was slightly out of focus and was making his eyes go a bit funny. This got worse as the day went on and ended up giving him a migraine. At one point it looked like we were going to have to ditch the tiles we had bought (costing us £350) and start again. Eventually, my boyfriend decided that it was down to him being over tired and so more sensitive to the pattern, so we are sticking with them - phew!!

The handbasin problem - the hand basin was fitted in the en-suite but there was a fault in it and the taps would not sit straight, also the pedestal was off centre so looked a bit odd. When we returned it, they conceded that there was a fault causing the taps to look off centre but advised that the pedestal was not designed to go with that basin. We ended up ordering the next size up which fits the pedestal and the taps are sitting correctly - result!!

The bathroom fitter problem - our bathroom fitter is a nice guy but he is soooo slow!! He is also very expensive!! We agreed a price at the beginning of the work which, in my opinon, was over the odds. However, I think he thinks we have money to throw away as he started to say it was going to be more for odd things that had to be redone. It all came to a head last week when we had to stand our ground and point out that he was being paid very good money to do the job and we expected there to be a contingency in that to cover unexpected hitches (ie having to refit the basin due to the fault). As it happened, it all smoothed over and is fine but that was stressful!

The floorboard problem - our plumber caused stress last week by sulking at being asked to put back the floorboards he had taken up!! It ended up with my boyfriend putting a lot of them back just to keep the peace!

Anyway, we are through most of worst of it now. It is lovely to have hot water and a flushing toilet - you don't appreciate these things until you don't have them!