BATHROOM WOES

Five years on - all the 'come with it' fixtures seems to be taking turn to expire.  Free thing = low quality.

The latest on the list - Shower head holder, in my bathroom.

Since I'm the only one using this bathroom, in order to escape an earful nagging, I die die have to do it all myself.

Was trying to adjust the shower head to a taller height when the knob broke.

With help from neighbours, I realised that the shower pole actually comes in sizes.

 

About 2.3cm

Anyway, being a layman to handy work, it's frustrating for me to find the exact holder.  I went to those old-school hardware shop （五金店 )  whereby the uncle throw me a curve ball and doesnt seems helpful.  After going thru many online shopping site, I realised there's a flexible solution.

I got this from a neighbourhood store at Serangoon.

Regardless the size of your pole, just press and slide in the holder.

Perfect fit. 

Want to adjust the angle of your shower head? Just loosen this screw.

3 minutes.  Job done.  Good as new.

THE HALF YEAR MARK!

We are almost there - but not yet.

Just last week, our kitchen lights from Italu died on us. The technician came promptly on a Monday morning and told us the ballast is faulty. In the first place, the wires were not connected properly causing the ballast to wear out...zzz... Luckily Italu offered us a 1 year warranty for their lights and ballast, so this trip cost us nothing.

Then on Sunday evening, after slipping down the shower stand after so many times, I broke the shower head support while trying to push the thing up one last time!!

Since, all fittings in the flat comes with 1 year warranty, I called the Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council for help since the BSC shifted out in April. Help came 45mins after I hang up the phone.

The circular support for the shower head has been slipping over the past few months. I have to loosen the knob on the left, push up the shower head, then tighten it.
I think I had enough with the nonsense, so fuming mad, I tighten the knob too much that it broke! Dammed!!! Made in CxxxA, lousy plastic material!! Paid HDB PREMIUM PRICING, this is the 'premium' items I get?
But come to think of it, this whole thing is made of plastic!! it will break sooner or later! So, it's not entirely my fault!! Give me ANY trouble again after the warranty expired, then out it goes!
Other than lights and those lousy government fittings... it's so far so good for the rest of the stuff at home.

DAY 5 OF RENO

yesterday was sunday.

tiler finished up the shower kerbs in the both bathrooms today. nice job!

kerb finished with original hdb tiles in master bathroom
same finishing in the common bathroom
but all happiness were short-lived and i had a rude shock when i saw this wire casing out of no where on my kitchen wall!
now i know why my ID said that the gas pipe should turn right then down instead of the current position the citygas guy did...zzzz. now i'll end up with 2 box up or i just leave the wire casing as it is. sianz to the max liao lor!

now just hope that cabinets would be up soon to cover up this casing.

DAY 3 OF RENO

tiler did up the shower kerb for both bathrooms and also did a sample mould top for my sink and hob.

raw kerb in common bathroom
raw kerb in master bathroom
hob mould on left, sink mould on right
electrician tied up loose wires, shifted light and heater switches to other side of wall and did a new concealed outlet for the study room.

wires are tied up neatly
new switches position on the left
hacked new conceal outlet for scv point and double socket
a short week ~ end of week 1.

next week, the base and titles for the kitchen base should be up, washing machine base will be constructed, aircon trunking also scheduled on thursday noon, after the deepavali holidays.