I bet the landlord who's having it done wouldn't live with a bathroom like that, but he expects his tenants to do so.
I once did similar work for the most arrogant man I ever met. He was a landlord of a load of scummy flats and after chatting to him in a pub, he asked my father to do the mainenance on a row of houses (converted into bedsits). They were horrible.
When we refurbed his house, it was the best of everything. The crap that his tenants lived in was like your photo. Just awful. He treated them with contempt, and as they were on low income the dss paid half their rent. Basically what that equated to was that each bedsit was earning him £120 a week, and he had loads of them crammed in. £520 a month. Back then, that was the same as I was paying to rent a nice flat.
He always paid us on time, and gave us lots of work, but in the end we said we didn't want to do the work anymore, and gave it up. I say we, at the time, I just worked for my father. I have some mental stories from those places though. Mad times.
