Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Bathroom Woes

Things have been absolutely crazy around here recently. The sink in the condo above us leaked into our ceiling and down our wall in our master bathroom a few weeks ago. It made a small brown spot on our ceiling....no big deal, we painted right over it. Well, after the plumbers above us banged around on the floor fixing the leaky pipe, they caused our mirror to fall a little more. It has always been slightly crooked, but not too noticable. Sooooo, Spencer thought he could simply "push" it back into place with my help. Yeah right! So as I'm holding the mirror and he grabs the other side of this massive, heavy mirror, it breaks in half! So now we have to have it replaced. The glass company comes to install our brand new mirror and when they remove the old mirror they discover mold growing on our drywall. Ohhh joy. Keep in mind our home is on the market! After speaking with our condo association, I find a reliable company to come and give us an estimate and do the mold removal. The huge man came yesterday and sealed himself off in our master bath for 5 HOURS in a space suit and removed the mold!! The side of his big truck said "disaster cleanup"!!!! Can you imagine what my neighbors were thinking?!?! They had to rip apart our entire bathroom to get it all out and I had to remove every single item from the bathroom, right down to the bar of soap in the shower! Spencer and I had to camp out in our living room last night because the HVAC they left to remove the mold spores from the air sounded like a jet plane engine that we couldn't possibly sleep in our room, never mind the knock-you-over chlorine smell!
Not only do we now have to hire a construction company to come in and do the repairs, but now we have to pay to have a cracked pipe fixed that was also leaking!!! I swear, it is one thing after another these days!!! Right now we are using our other bathroom until ours is fixed, which I hope, hope will be VERY soon!!!!
I wanted to post some pictures of our sad, sad bathroom! For those of you that know me so well, you know what a neat/clean freak I am so you can imagine how much I am freaking out! hahahahaaa! I am learning patience.....at times! :)

This is where our vanity used to sit and the mirror used to hang.


This is the underside of our vanity countertop. It is propped up against our shower...we can't even take a shower!!!


These are the vanity cabinets stacked on top of each other. You are looking into our closet and the vanity is supposed to sit to the left in the picture.

And to think this ALL started with a small leak in a pipe above us!!! Arghhhhhhh!!! And to top it all off, no, neither homeowners for either party OR our condo association is paying! Lovely, huh?

1 comment:

Jana said...

this is ridiculous!