If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

And if it is broke, fix it, dammit!!!

...and it is well and truly broken, believe me...

Guess what?! The painter guy didn't put down the new laminate after all. Turns out the sink is still slightly leaking, so he decided he better didn't touch anything lest my landlord decided to put the blame on him later (Good thinking, I grant him that.)...

Then the landlord and a plumber guy came into my flat while I was at uni today and I came home to this:

They had simply uninstalled the sink! What a simple but brilliant feat: If there is no sink, the sink cannot leak. (I bow my head in awe in the face of such masterminding.)

Meanwhile I rescheduled with the painter/laminate guy for tomorrow morning and got the plumber's number off my landlord so that he might come one of these days and put the sink back (and hopefully fix it too, why, wouldn't that be something!) once the laminate finally got laid (bahaha, that lucky bitch! ...ehm, sorry!).

I enjoyed about three minutes of triumph at having managed to organise this whole, god-forsaken circus. Then I realized...

...that that weird carpet underneath the old laminate (kept in place because Scrooge wouldn't cough up for a new floor...) is in fact still soaking wet! Well, maybe not as bad as last summer, but definitely damp. It dried off reasonably well back then. But it's the end of October now, so there's a fat chance that carpet will ever dry at all now and I somehow don't fancy living in a building site for much longer. So let the laminate people come - the worst that'll happen is they remove the old laminate, then disappear again to let the carpet dry some more. It's not as if this place can look any more chaotic...

Or can it???

tbc...

P.S. What's that? You're wondering why neither landlord nor plumber noticed the wet carpet this afternoon when they removed the sink? You think a plumber should recognize a leak when he sees one? Well, you'd think so, wouldn't you?!