Forum Archive: Monthly Archives: July 2005

I need some help.

Recently a wall-mounted, single-basin, porcelain sink fell off its mounting bracket onto a friend’s toe and shattered (the sink, not the toe, although the cut is nasty) on the bathroom floor.

Related causalities include thumb-sized gouge in the porcelain coating on the bathtub and my friend’s toenail. My Landlord has decided to “fix” the problem himself, which is unsettling news for many, many, many reasons– Some ascetic, some functional, some in the interest of time, and still others frankly related to safety… We have a severed toenail as evidence.

The Landlord bought a new mounting bracket, sink and faucet/drain assembly; but the sink moves around so much I fear a repeat if someone so much as sets a toothbrush on it. He’s a nice old guy, it’s his building, and he insists on doing the work himself; but every “repair” he has ever saddled has made my life more difficult.

I would LOVE for a trained professional to come to my apartment, mount the sink and hook up the drain assembly– And, depending on the cost, I’ll do it on my own dime.

I just can’t take it anymore. At this rate, if he keeps making repairs my wife and I are going to be living in a tent.