Plumber.
Our neighbour is a plumber, and a good friend of the owner of the property. Having sold my house nearly 2 years ago, we've been in a number of rented places ever since. Most have been fine.

One morning about five weeks ago, I got out of bed, dragged myself to the shower as I am prone to do. Only this time, no water came out. I figured I'd use the other bathroom and went downstairs. That's when I saw a big streak of dirty water across the dining room ceiling dripping onto pretty much everything electrical in there - and there was a lot of electrical things in there (as can be seen in the pics on the Techno-DIY QoTW).

I phoned the letting agency, who - to their credit - sent a plumber round pretty quickly. The next door neighbour plumber.

Anyway, in the mean time, I've pulled the bath out, removed tiles etc... to have a look and see if I can find out where it's leaking from. When the plumber arrives he has a quick look, can't find anything and just adds sealant to pretty much every pipe he can find - which to be fair did actually fix the leak.

Then, the snidey crap-bag phones the landlord of the house and tells him "that bathroom was so filthy I wouldn't set foot in it again".

...which of course prompted a phone call to the agency. Who, in turn phone me, and arrange a visit the next day.

The lady turns up, has a look - has a very suprised look on her face, as the place is spotless (my misses is on the verge of having OCD when it comes to cleaning).

She tells me that "well, the landlord said, 'if they can't keep the place clean then they can f*** off!". Bloody charming.

So, having only been there for about 10 minutes I seem to have made an enemy of my neighbour - or rather he did of me. What on earth did he expect to see - the.bathroom.was.leaking.fucking.dirty.water.everywhere! Of course it was dirty.

I suppose he can't be that much of a plumber, as the plumbers I know are used to being arm-deep in other people's shite.
(dchurch bah, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:51, Reply)