A day in the life...

[baldrick]

Function before form

[david44]

Glad you got it done mate your daughter is happy which despite all the piss takes was the goal.

It looks like you raised the unit, good.Much of the tiling is superior to my own Miss matched hovel, once cooler I may try and post up some pix to make you realize that tiler or his 'professor gets around'

JOB DONE, as i always tell MM, ignore the knockers .

[Edmond]

You would, wouldn't you.

I did, didn't I.


Can't beat a good cool rain shower after a sesh. Or a sudsy rain shower with Edith.


One that doesn't also have the normal showerhead also running, of course.

Help a brotha out with the correct tap fitting, Mike.

[Stumpy]

Fuck me Stumps, I haven't been spoken to like that since I was 10 years old.

Sorry to be so blunt there ol Mendo. I mean I only have to go by what you post and you said numerous times that you wouldn't drop 1 more satang in the place so I can understand the basic "make it work approach".

Don't mind the short old American, you know, well, how short and Ameri

As for you ol pervo Eddie. It has nothing to do with stature. Its about integrity and values. You could be 7ft tall or 5 ft tall. Its just a comment. Head on back to your thread in daily cheer. Still an open thought involved there. The Mom 33 and you with the daughter??? One has to wonder. We can go back to your Mao days. What was your age minimum requirement again?

[Edmond]

There he is.

The Mom 33 and you with the daughter???

Alai waa?

JOB DONE

AND DONE PRETTY WELL BESIDES THE POOR CHOICE IN TILES.


Not convinced that Lek was the weakest link.

[Mendip]

^ The 'missing link' maybe?

Give it a few years for the new tiles to fade and the grunge to build up through lack of cleaning and everything will match fine.

A rain shower isn't an option due to the low wall.

Anyway, I'm not putting one more Satang into that shower room!

[david44]

Anyway, I'm not putting one more Satang into that shower room!

Quite right, luckily the drain cover should trap loose change and by sitting over the oriface, and a sharp intake of breath can usually retrieve such loose change to buy lao khao......allegedely

With poster of the year , look forward to your well illustrated travels, who knows you may get a cabin with PJ?

I sometimes wonder if these cheese runs could be avoided by getting a few goats and Mary in the Dairy?

Bum voyage I may have a nok air refreshing towelette and possiblyan Eva air spoon for you soon!

[moose65]

There are combination rain shower and shower head on a hose sets available, when i remodelled the guesthouse bathrooms i put them in, it the best of both worlds.
Surely there is a decent hardware store like do home near you.
Don't be a tight minging b@stard, your daughter will appreciate it and you will enjoy the option of a real shower.

[Edmond]

^ agree. Rain showers and hanging chairs. When will people learn.

[Mendip]

Ok, Ok, I'll look into it... but that shower head is only 17 years old and it seems such a waste to change it already.

I still wonder if a rain shower head will work with that low dividing wall... won't the water go everywhere?

[Edmond]

Not unless it gets clogged up with lime scale and the such and it sprays out at odd angles.

You seem to run a meticulously clean ship, so no worries in that regard.

[Edmond]

Just don't do an Eddie and buy one that can't run it separately from the normal shower head.

[aging one]

Just don't do an Eddie and buy one that can't run it separately from the normal shower head.

Your daughters new shower looks great and she will love it. We have 3 rain showers in our "place". As normal with Edtard he seems to be missing the valve/tap that sends the water to the desired outlet. It makes sense it was a left over part when he finished installing it.

Notice the tap down about navel level. As it is rain shower, pointing up is normal shower.

[Edmond]

There's an Eva Air spoon for ya if you take a wrench next time you stay there Mendo.

[Edmond]

Will see if I've got a photo of it later.


Flights and a month in a hotel I paid for that Euro fudger. Foker was coming in stinkin' o' 1664 and cheap perfume half the time.

[Mendip]

^ Lek's looking for work...

[Edmond]

Looking at Isaan - Don Muang - Phuket flights for Lekso.


You're still collecting internet guys from the airport and putting them up in rain shower en suited rooms AO?

[aging one]

Looking at Isaan - Don Muang - Phuket flights for Lekso.


You're still collecting internet guys from the airport and putting them up in rain shower en suited rooms AO?

Lek would be about as welcome as you. Mendy and daughter have used the one you are speaking of. Its in our guest room.

[Mendip]

^ And a very fine shower it was, too!

Don't be too quick to rule Lek out though AO, he may have some recent jokes to tell!

[Edmond]

Lek would be about as welcome as you.

[Edmond]

I hope you de-haired it AO.

[cyrille]

Looking at that well appointed shower feature and considering he had to work over Songkran, I have to say that it seems Khun Lek has been given short shrift.

[Mendip]

^ Well, he was only 4' 10"

[Edmond]

I'm starting to suspect that me Euro building buddy that I flew over to renovate the villa may not be the best thing since sliced panini after all.


Had a pic sent up and there does seem to be a second tap missing that would turn off the normal showerhead while the rainfall shower is on, as per Sir Aging Vagina's one.


Let's hope and pray that sourcing matching taps is easier than matching 17 year old tiles.

It's a Cotto thing that cost around 15k so I'm not sure if he thought it was a spare, because presumably it was in there with the tap that he did connect.


Screw in shower taps are all the same size, right.

[DrWilly]

Fuck me Stumps, I haven't been spoken to like that since I was 10 years old. Believe me, I feel suitable chastised.


The 'tiler' finally finished yesterday... his estimate of 2 days was 6 days short.

I showed him where he'd gone wrong, paid him and and politely explained that he will never work here again. The gardener and I will do the Buddha room project together, when next I have time.

But contrary to common opinion, I really do care about this and am pissed off it didn't go better.

A couple of weeks ago the daughter confided in me that she really wanted her own bathroom for a number of reasons, but without going into details, anything that allows another step of independence from her fucking (excuse my language) mother has to be good. That is something that I really do care about... passionately.

It took three days of driving around Korat just to find a place that sold tiles of the same size, let alone colour. And try asking for their stock of 17 year-old aged tiles for the perfect match. My Thai just isn't up to that.

Then the (proper) tiler that was lined up let me down at the last minute... so in steps this idiot that the gardener found.

I now had around a week (over Songkran) to get this done as my next opportunity for anything like this kind of thing will probably be September, or maybe not even then if work this year turns out as busy as expected.

So anyway, it wasn't a GREAT project and the bathroom won't be on Instagram any time soon. You can grade the tiling if you like, the current C- seems generous, but that is one thing I don't care about right now. To be honest, with the amount of shit I have to contend with at the moment, I just wish I had a life where perfectly matching tiles even registered on the scale.

The new white tiles will doubtless fade with age and blend in better, and with hindsight I should have maybe just gone a completely different colour for all the new tiling... but who was to know how much the tiles had changed colour over the years. And the option wasn't there to change them anyway... everywhere was shut over Songkran. Sometimes, 'good enough' has to be good enough. Yeah, there I go again, not caring.

Anyway, bollocks to it...the daughter gave it an A+ and I can leave for Norway in a couple of days happy in the knowledge that she has her own bathroom and has a little more independence from her mother. And doesn't have to wait until the Autumn for that to happen.

And I still don't like glass blocks (and this fucking idiot of a 'tiler' wouldn't have known how to install them anyway) and I still don't consider clambering in and out of a bath (even with a nice bath mat) very safe, or enjoyable.




So please... grade away!

ACtually, to be fair that looks pretty good Mendy.

And your daughter is happy.