Well my husband has been off work since Thursday. We decided back before Christmas to have a shower added over our guest bath whirlpool tub to make it more convenient for guests. The man who has always done our home repairs came out and we told him we wanted ceramic tile. He said that is so expensive and would "cost a fortune" and had we considered using a tileboard porcelain looking material he recommended. He told us to go down to Home Depot and look at it, which we did. We thought it would look fine, so he came out and did the job. I wasn't thrilled with the way it looked up, but thought maybe it would be ok. I realize I am on the picky side when it comes to this townhouse. Anyway, when our first guest used it, she noticed the shower head wobbled really bad, the whole pipe, not just the head. And the tileboard he had put up was separating from the walls. So after Christmas, we called him back and said this is TERRIBLE. He said well he had just bought a nice fiberglass shower surround and if we wanted it, he would put it up for just what it cost him, no labor. So we said ok.
Thursday, my husband took off work to be here while the guy did the work. Well, he got here and decided the shower surround he already had bought, was the BACK only, and wouldn't do, so he'd have to go back and buy something else. He goes to Home Depot and comes back with this long thin thing that was one piece and flexible and says he's going to put it up on the walls. I said how is that going to look? He assures us it will be fine. So he goes off into the small bath and we notice this HORRIBLE smell. He says its the adhesive. Our whole house smells like VERY STRONG magic markers. We're suffocating and he comes back out and says it "didn't quite fit" and he has to go get something else to put around the edges of it, and heads back out to Home Depot. Well we went to look and he has this huge gap where it doesn't meet the tub, it doesn't fit into the corners so there are these huge holes at the corners you could run your whole arm into. I freaked. So my husband called him and said, "Don't spend anymore money. Come back and get your stuff and we'll figure out something else." He comes back to get his tools and I told him he wouldn't want HIS bathroom looking like that, and that we have decided to go with ceramic tile. He said well he can get ceramic tile cheap and will do the job with no labor since we are not happy with what he's done so far. SO NOW ceramic tile is "cheap" when to begin with, it "costs a fortune." We said we'd be in touch. THERE IS NO WAY this guy is touching my bathroom again. So now we have this horrible mess glued to the wall, without the shower head even being up there, and we have to wait until we can afford to have someone come out and put tile up. I pulled the shower curtain over it and decided just not to look at it. Thank goodness we don't use that bathroom! But now we've paid for two different shower surround thingies and still no shower.
Anyway, hubby took off to do that on Thursday, then got sick with a bad cold on Friday and hasn't felt like doing anything all weekend. He said he's staying home tomorrow, too. I'm going through the "I need time alone!" blues and hope he feels better soon.
No we didn't watch the SUPERBOWL. I hate football and married a guy who doesn't care for it either. However, I do have one good thing to say about the Superbowl. It made it very easy to get a table at the restaurant tonight. :-)
So how was your weekend?
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