Property Improvement Plans On Hold Due to Leaking Shower

Fate has as it oh so often tends to do has inevitably conspired against me, as within 2 weeks of moving into my new house a serious bathroom malfunction has rather frustratingly occurred, thereby resulting in my shower handle breaking off the wall and ultimately resulting in water leaking all over my brand new bathroom. Try as I might, the shower would not cease from its seemingly never ending torrent, proceeding to make a terrible mess of what I hoped would remain a rather well maintained laminate bathroom floor.
    
     British bathrooms are of course, notoriously difficult to deal with for any DIY lover, but an essential part of property improvement for homeownerse and property developers alike. For a near complete DIY amateur such as myself, I'd rather not face up to a bodged job with a monkey wrench in what is essentailly not my own proerty - but a quick fix with a monkey wrench was the best situation salvaging thing I could do to at least stop my beutiful new bathroom from falling through the ceiling and into the spotless living room below!