Recent content by sussexwoman

I have ordered a new handle and will try it out. Maybe it will fit, maybe it won't. Many thanks to all!

Gosh! I am most grateful to you for all the trouble you have taken. I will copy and paste and print out what you have written. Thank you so much! The valve does still work. I mean I still use it to shower, and I adjust the temperature with a pair of pliers, which is very awkward especially as...

Two plumbers and a builder have independently told me it cannot be repaired or replaced.

here it is

Thanks, Oldbuffer. I don't have any photos but I can take my mobile up to bed and get some. Opps - I honestly do not know!

Oh I did not think of that. The tiles are a matte white, I guess can be bought anywhere. I don't like that huge ugly thing, it's just a tiny cubicle.

In 2008 a builder fitted a shower in my bedroom. No idea where he got the shower valve from. It's a triple-valve: top knob for the rainfall shower head, middle for the temperature control and bottom knob for the handheld. The middle knob has corroded internally and fallen off. Two plumbers...

That's what I told him! What if it took me two or three months to choose a vinyl and book in a fitter? It is my lodgers' bathroom and not nice to make them live for weeks with paint all over the floor!

Yes. Quite a few. As I have been a single lady home owner for 43 years, and moved house nine times, I must have employed about 25 or 30 of them by now. Most have been good, one or two were outstanding, but some, especially lately, have been abysmal. I had a lady two years ago who was an...

I phoned around loads of local painters and some of them could even come round to quote for several months; the rest quoted but could not start work until the autumn. This one was able to do 2 days a week for a few weeks as he was already booked up for the other days. Strangely, he is working...

He painted the bathroom walls without using any dust sheets and spattered paint all over the vinyl. When I complained to him the next day he said that he'd overheard me mention that I might get new vinyl in there once he'd finished, which he assumed meant it did not matter if he got paint on the...

Not a wind-up. I have 20 more photos of his work. And his name and address if necessary.

Example of work that he thought and told me was "finished".

Sorry, perhaps I should have said, he has sometimes done work at a set price but tries not to, warning me that it will "cost me more that way". He quotes a fixed price based on £25 ph. The work I am referring to above included some days when he was doing "bits and pieces": going around the...

(NOTE for context I live in a small seaside town where rates of pay are far lower than in big cities. Also I am a disabled pensioner.) My previous painter/handyman charged me £20 an hour and did a perfect job first time every time. Sadly he retired to Portugal last year which is why I looked...