Build me a bathroom....

Those who work on cars will occasionally come across a job that tests your patience. Something so needlessly fiddly and difficult that you refuse to believe the job can be this badly thought out.

This includes almost anything you might chose to do on the IVECO a vehicle that sets standards for bad access.

Early Japanese cars were legendary centres of bad design and Citroen's regularly figure in lists of impossible jobs.

But if modern cars are by and large easy to work on the people who used to design impossible to do tasks into cars. They have all gone to work for companies that offer things to do with kitchens and bath rooms.

I have spent a day fitting a sink; contorted into impossible shapes securing things in inaccessible corners. Writhing to reach impossible to find screws and bolts.

Some of use can remember the old days when things were made in places like Tipton and Sandwell, then suddenly cheaper alternatives came in with oriental names and collections of random words in books with "instructions" on the cover.

Again there is no need to assume those writers of gibberish are retired. No they go and work for DIY companies. I looked at the instructions for the mixer 4 times before it dawned on me there was no way on the planet that mixer would go on the way the chaps in IKEA told you to. What a fiendish plot to drive you into the hands of a plumber.

The instructions for the waste was far better, well they might have been, management managed to put them with the rubbish and then burnt them.

It might have been pique, I was still laughing after putting the work surface she had bought on top of the units I had just fitted to the wall (with tools and bits from the GG store I might add) and I asked her which end of the unit did she want the 1 Metre gap....

That's it though, it's nearly done, in as many hours as it would have taken me to do a full service on two green goddesses.

Might be an early night for me.


R