The Little Rince (when a small wash is good enough)

The vanity unit has arrived! And what a miserable job the renovation boys have done of putting it together. Covered in filth, from the taped up box it looks as if someone has opened it, and returned it, and they just sent it to us.

Greasy fingerprints galore, stains on the top, and even the sink hasn’t been glued properly to the underside of the unit, so water just slops out over the rim of the very small basin and into the vanity.

It also weighs a ton, and is designed not to have any legs, but just to ‘float’ on the wall, looking as if it’s hovering there, and not screwed in by the four hefty bolts I’ve put in the wall, with a good wooden beam for it to sit on too. There could be an earthquake, and the only thing standing would be the vanity.

However, I’ve yet again had to curse both the tiles and Aldi. The tiles for the bathroom were fired at an amazing high temperature, so the aren’t so much glazed, and a solid lump of rock. After trying to drill into them on several occasions, I now don’t bother, and cut them with a diamond saw. That, however, is no good for bolts. So I got out my nice set of new drills for Aldi, and proceeded to ruin a number of them. When drill and tile meet, what comes of worst is always the drill. In one case, it ended up red hot, dripping steel, with nary a dent in the tile.

Time for some new drills.