Yesterday I finally came face to face with my nemesis - Kevin from Bathroom Bazaar! I offered to take his photo for the blog 'Hall of Shame' but he told me not to be so nasty - guess we won't be shopping there again.....
The saga started back in May when we were told by our builder that the coverplates for the shower and bath taps were 'missing' when we bought the taps and were therefore on order. We thought that this was a bit odd (given the rest of the taps were intact) but had much bigger and leakier things to worry about. In the meantime you just had to guess which taps were hot and which were cold.
By July, I was getting fed up with the non arrival of the coverplates and phoned Bathroom Bazaar myself - first contact was made with Kevin! The story then took another twist: apparently the blank coverplates had been ordered because our bathrooms had been plumbed with with the hot and cold pipes in the wrong place. For those of you not aware, we had just had the bathrooms re-tiled, posing the very sensible question - "WHY NOT FIX THE PIPES AT THE SAME TIME".
Anyways, we were assured that the bank coverplates were on the way so for the next 2 months, poor Kevin was hounded by weekly phonecalls pertaining to the whereabouts of the elusive blank coverplates
Finally, on Froonchen's birthday we got the call from Kevin - they had finally arrived! Full of anticipation we went to collect them only to find they didn't fit. Instead, we have retrieved the original coverplates from Kevin and installed them upside down so that the hot and cold labels are on the right taps - a suitably African solution!
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