Household disasters

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

I think i am going insane.. ok let me rephrase I KNOW i am going insane !!

so for the past month there has been a series of maintenence disasters at my house and i am going mad.. let's start at the beginning

1) our bathroom shower stall: so apparently when we got married and refurbished the bathroom.. no one told us that fibre glass shower stalls are crap.. they peel in a disgusting way and well they break.. so a few weeks ago i noticed that water is leaking onto the outside wall of the bathroom.. ( onto the NEWLY painted wall i may add).. so i was like.. the bathroom is new.. the pipes are new what's going on.. and i figured it must be leaking from under the shower stall.. the leakage reached the guest bathroom downstairs.. water was dripping from that ceiling !!

so we replaced the shower stall with tiles... hotel style.. and now everything is ok.. we still need to repaint the wall and the ceiling as the plumber said it will take at least a month to dry out..

2) While me and husband were in ruwi buying tiles etc for the bathroom problem.. our housemaid calls in a panic.. saying " i was sitting with adham (my son) watching tv when suddenly i hear this loud POOF and then the lights went out" ... ahhh so what is the explanation? the flexible heater pipes in the kitchen burst and water flooded the bathroom.. since the heater was switched on an electric shock occurred. Oh and that's not all

while the maid was trying to switch on the electricity from the main switch .. she broke the lever.. so there complete darkness and flooding water.. just great..

anyways we got that fixed the same day..

3) ahh so now its last friday.. me my husband and adham are visiting my husband's relatives when the maid calls again... so i think ,, she never calls ,, this can't be good.. she says " i was vaccumming when i heard a loud BOOOM (yes she loves the sound effects)" ,, now what i think to myself.. she said one of the kitchen cupboards fell onto the floor and all our crytsl glasses ,, bowls etc u name it.. totall crushed.. !! so you think how did that happen? apparently the wood cupboard took in water from problem number 2 and the wood just shattered.. 20 yr old cupboard after all.

we still haven't gotten around to fixing that... carpenter is coming today

4) whatt? its not over yet? .. u would have thought so .. but nooooo.. fate had something else in store for us.. so we are all asleep.. its 5 am.. when this time me and my husband hear a loud crash.. i figure.. there goes another cupboard... nope i was wroooonggg....

so we go down to inspect and we find one of the NEWLY installed lights on the floor.. the whole thing just fell screws and all.. apparently the holes were too big according to my husband.. so i say why now though? the house maid in all her wisdom says.. the banging in the bathroom upstairs when we fixed the shower issue must have caused the screws to be displaced !!!

so there you have it ..

i told my husband.. one more and i go to ibn sina..