I've already bitched about this to a friend of mine, but I don't see why you guys here should escape reading about my crappy experience.
Unless I win the lotto, just shoot me next time I say I want a house. As most of you know, I'm still unemployed and am having for several reasons to move back in with my mother.
I was at my mother's today moving stuff in and TRYING to get her washing machine out of the back bathroom where she had it installed for some ungodly reason so I can actually use it as a bathroom.
It seemed to me to be a simple thing to get the plumber to come out and put in some new hookups.
The plumber came today and did an estimate.
He wanted
$2300 to do the job! To move the fucking machine 5 feet from where it is now and put in new hookups.
I wanted to cry. No way we could afford to pay this. I was SO upset. So after he left, I figured, well, fine, I'll just use a step ladder and climb over the machine anytime I want to use the toilet. So I climb over and fill up the toilet tank and turn on the valve so water will start flowing toward the toilet....
and the tank starts to leak...
which I fix but in doing so I managed to break off the floater. Then the water valve behind the toilet seat starts to leak. Badly. Water is running all over the floor. I have to turn it off.
At this point I wonder why the fuck anyone buys a house.
Who am I going to call to fix this?
Not a professional, and why?
BECAUSE THE FUCKING WASHING MACHINE IS IN THE WAY!!!!!
I can just manage to squeeze in there next to the toilet because I'm 5'1" and am not a butterball. No way a man can get back there.
So guess what? Yes, I had to go to the hardware store, get instructions and next time over I'm going to have to shut off the water, carefully unscrew and move the tank, remove the valve, take it in so they can figure out why it's leaking and if they can figure it out, then I can put in the new goddamned floater and maybe get the toilet working.
My mother saw how upset I was and tried to offer an alternative,
"Well, we have bed pans, you can use that and then empty it out...."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's the 21st century!!!!! Is a working toilet too fucking much to ask?!?!?
My apartment was so lovely and wonderful and repairs were a phone call away...