This "simple painting job" has blown out to a month. I have most of the painting equipment already purchased to prep the walls and I just bought four litres of paint only to get it home and realize it's the wrong colour. Bunnings mixed that colour up for me and told me I would need four litres to make sure I had enough coverage for the bathroom. I can't use that paint anywhere else, I'm just about to bin $70 worth of paint, I can't afford to do that! Is a tiny studio apartment I would have thought I would only have needed two litres at most for an ensuite sized bathroom considering the doors and frames are going to be a different colour.
I'm prepared to throw another one or two hundred dollars more at this but that's it. I've got plumbing to do, I've got electricals to do, half the things in this place don't work, it's looking like I'm going to have to do my own plumbing and electrical because the contractors in the inner city charge at the top end of the range and it's well outside what I can afford. The paint should be the least of my worries but right now I'm living in a filthy place where nothing works and I can't find anything, my life is on hold until I can get enough of its stowed away that it functions like anything resembling accommodation. I can't move out, I need to get this place into a livable standard.
