Ha. Amateur.
Mine started with the syphon in the bathroom loo packing up. A bit of the flush button and leverage shattered.
Bear with me, I'm going somewhere with this.
So, syphon. Easy. Turn water off, and replace. £3. Easy. But .... it's quite an old loo, and the syphon has a funny-shaped pushbutton in the cistern lid, and you CANNOT get a direct replacement. Okaaay, fit a different type.
No problem. Except that the drop pipe into the loo bowl now doesn't fit. It's too long. So, simple, remove pipe, trim a bit off, and replace. Job done. Uhhh huh, except that the cistern, which is quite elderly, has plastic that's gone .... powdery. Where? Where it bolts into ths wall, natch, so the bleeping thing falls off, doesn't it.
Argggh.
So, replace cistern.
Ever tried sourcing a cistern to match a '60s Avocado coloured loo bowl? Right, you find them next to the piles of rocking horse poop.
Sigh. New loo, then.
Of course, now the loo doesn't match the washing basin. Oh well, we wanted a white loo suite anyway. But .... don't forget the bath. More of that in a minute.
So, basin. Naturally, that means replacing the counter top, because it's cut wrong for the replacement and, of course, it's been tiled in and can't be done without replacing the tile. At which point, about half the plaster came off with the tile. So, plaster before I can retile, having stripped the entire bathroom tile.
But am I done? Oh, hell, no.
Now it gets REALLY stupid.
Whoever the dickhead was that built the house put the doorway in the wrong damn place. When they measured up, they miscalculated and put the door in a place where the ONLY way to fit a bath, even a narrow one, is to cut a notch in the door surround, and seeing as we're now redoing the whole bathroom, we don't want an overly narrow bath.
So, that's rebuilding that wall, in order to move the stupid bleeping doorway about 6 inches. But now, re radiator is too close to the new doorway, so we decided to switch to underfloor heating and a heated towel rail, rather than move the radiator.
It cost thousands, not £3, took me weeks and all because the damn flush button broke on the syphon.
Can't have "that much" more to do, indeed. Tell me about it. I'm an expert in cascading disasters, now.
In case anyone wonders, no, I'm not making it up.
Still, the good news. The bathroom light pull-cord switch was okay, and survived the process of fixing the cistern flush button. Pretty much nothing else did.
EDIT .... You hate PCs, Kal. How do think I feel about bathrooms?