Recently, there have been a lot of council workers at my house.

It feels rather more like a construction site at the moment.

The other week, some of the bathroom tiles started to peel of the wall.

The guy came and removed all the tiles. Then he selotaped plastic to the wall - which is just card board and wood. Then he said someone would come the following Thursday (so yesterday) to fix the tiles and replace the bath.

That same day, a guy for the extractor fan came. It took the piss a bit because it would not work for my mum and it has not work since, but when the guy came all he had to do was push a button to switch it on.

The guy who came yesterday said that the other guy had not mentioned that the bath needed to be replace so that guy had to fill in a report and so they did not do anything yesterday.

Today, a guy came for a routine check of the gas meter and found that there was a gas leak. He switched of the gas. Then he sealed the leak but found that it was still leaking but said he could not do anything about it because it was National Grid's side of the meter that was leaking.

So he called National grid and an hour later another guy came and said, no, there is not a leak on our side of the meter. He also said he could not turn the gas back on and that meter we had was old and rusty and it had something on it that causes problems. As a result, we needed to get the changed. However, the cupboards were blocking him so he could not access it so we needed to call the council to do something about that.

The other guy came back and told us we needed to call the council to fix the boiler and then we'd have hot water without gas. A guy for that turned up 4 hours later and then said that something in the boiler was broken and as a result, we would need to call up the council to come fix that.

My mum called the out of hours service and they told her that she needed to wait to Tuesday to get something done.