Guess what?

The previous contractor who was doing up Aiman's bathroom refused to come and complete his work and rectify all the defects.

He just left the bathroom with the sink tilted, the toilet bowl leaking, water ponding on the floor, the tiles not properly grouted, the water heater not installed and the door frameless (he took out the door frame to replace as the old one was in bad shape already due to moisture). He also left without cleaning the toilet of all the cement and plastering work.

He was supposed to replace the door too, but sent an email (did not even bother to call up hubby in person) to let him know tht he is no longer interested to complete the job and will not be replacing the door as agreed earlier. *sigh*

We wondered if we are such fussy customers. I concluded that though I might be, but my hubby isn't and I never interfered when the contractors were doing their work.

Each time there was a crisis, I would just go to my work table and do some crafting. I just did not want to get involved as I did not want to be blamed incase there were some misunderstanding.

My hubby is one very patient guy, and to have the contractor walk out on the job means that this contractor is really horrible!

Sorry, I am blabbering, but can't help it. I am frustrated that Aiman's bathroom has been left incomplete. *sob*

Help! I am having an axiety attack!

We are going through another crisis with the contractor doing up Aiman's bathroom!

We told them on the first day of work on coring a new hole in the floor slab to take in the waste pipe for the new toilet bowl as the original hole will not fit. They insisted it fits. Yesterday, when they wanted to lay the tiles, they realised that they had to core a new hole. Spent half the morning coring the hole when they should be tiling. As it is, they are already 2 days behind schedule.

I don't know how they measured, but this morning, when they wanted to fit in the toilet bowl, the hole is off by 5 3/4"!! urrgghh!

Now they are re-coring the hole, and that means coring the structural slab! The tiles are all done up. Now we are going to have an imperfect tilling work at the back of the toilet bowl where they cored a hole yesterday. The worst part is, there is another hole in the floor slab! Uurrgghh!

I am shivering from all this crisis! I think I am having an anxiety attack!

What we did on Christmas Day.......

We had hoped that Santa *wink* would drop by and give us a bungalow, LOL!, but since he didn’t, we have given up waiting *grin* and thought that it’s time we do something about our never ending closet space problem.

We decided that we would redo our built-in closet to create more closet space. That way, I can bring all my clothes currently in Aiman’s room into our room, thus giving him back his closet and his bedroom!

It’s time he has his own room. It is long overdue, we know. We, I think mostly I, have been putting it off for many reasons, which I don’t think I need to disclose here in detail as sometimes it gives me goose bumps just hearing some of the gory stories (I still get goose bumps when I remember the incident where our house got broken into some 8 years ago!). May God protect us all, insyaAllah.

So, on Christmas Day, we spent the day spring cleaning, all in preparation for a minor renovation to be done in the master bedroom.

First, we had to empty out our entire present built-in closet to make way for newer and hopefully more spacious, built-ins.

We've had these built-ins for at least 10 years already. It was quite sad to have to tear it down, but it has got to be done. Unfortunately, I can’t have my cake and eat it too. :(

Today the contractor came to pull down the present built-ins. Here’s what’s left of the built-ins.

All gone! Now you see it!

Now you don’t!

We have moved everything out of our bedroom already, and almost everything is in the living room.

My hubby commented that first we lost the dining room which I have taken over and made it into a sewing area! LOL! Now we have lost the use of our living room when we brought down everything from our bedroom to the living room! LOL! Definitely we won’t be having any guests until the renovation is completed! LOL!

Currently we are using my mum’s bedroom to sleep in. We can’t have Aiman sleep in his room either as that room too will be undergoing some minor renovations. We hope to put in an air-conditioner in the room and a water heater in the bathroom. I also hope to repaint the room once those works are done with.

We will be doing a lot of re-wiring too to the room as the positions of the socket and lighting points needs to be realigned with the position of our new built-ins.

I am feeling excited, but nervous and anxious too as we will be living like nomads most probably for the next one month, as the built-ins can only come in 2 weeks after the last job is done and there is a lot of work to be done - the ceiling needs to be repaired, the wiring on the walls rewired, and the floor redone as all the parquet pieces are coming off.

I will be putting up progress photos as the renovation gets underway. Check back soon!