I am
Da Man!
Well sort of...
See, I changed out the leaky kitchen faucet with a new technologically up to date one.
My house was built in the early '70s.
Some where in the mid nineties, they stopped making replacement parts for my sink.
I looked.
Along with Zelda.
The cold began to leak back in '03-'04. I shut off the cold supply and didn't worry about it.
Zelda likes cold water along with her warm...
So we looked at three different hardware stores and talked to a number of sales assistants before we learned thru trial and error that we'd have to buy a new faucet.
Then we decided we could wait till we changed out the kitchen cabinets.
But there is no telling how long that might take.
So Friday we went shopping for paint.
To finish the bath room that has been left unfinished since at least '03 when I worked out of the house...
Being an old house, it has some problems here and there.
The bath room faucet washers need to be replaced. They don't drip, but if the water is on only a trickle, after about a minute the sink begins to "sing". Sounds just like a single note from a saxaphone. Only the player never needs to take a breath.
We wondered back to plumbing to look at new fixtures when I spotted the kitchen faucet.
My first thought was," I do NOT want to climb up under the sink, with the disposal and years of dirt and grim and who knows what else to change the fixture. Let's call a plumber".
Well, actually my FIRST thought was, "we spent HOW much?"
Next was, "I want to get this done and out of the way".
Zelda kept gently encouraging me.
"If my father can do it, so can you".
And after many hours under the sink,
which wasn't nearly has cramped as I thought it would be.
and a couple additional runs to the hardware store for new tools,
"we spent HOW much?",
I was able to cut, pry, wrench, and pull the old one out,
*I'm going to get half way through this and not be able to get one bolt loose and , Hey, how about we call a plumber?*
and finally install the new one.
Which works wonderfully.
Zelda love it, it's "her" new faucet.
(got me laid!)
as it should be!
Well sort of...
See, I changed out the leaky kitchen faucet with a new technologically up to date one.
My house was built in the early '70s.
Some where in the mid nineties, they stopped making replacement parts for my sink.
I looked.
Along with Zelda.
The cold began to leak back in '03-'04. I shut off the cold supply and didn't worry about it.
Zelda likes cold water along with her warm...
So we looked at three different hardware stores and talked to a number of sales assistants before we learned thru trial and error that we'd have to buy a new faucet.
Then we decided we could wait till we changed out the kitchen cabinets.
But there is no telling how long that might take.
So Friday we went shopping for paint.
To finish the bath room that has been left unfinished since at least '03 when I worked out of the house...
Being an old house, it has some problems here and there.
The bath room faucet washers need to be replaced. They don't drip, but if the water is on only a trickle, after about a minute the sink begins to "sing". Sounds just like a single note from a saxaphone. Only the player never needs to take a breath.
We wondered back to plumbing to look at new fixtures when I spotted the kitchen faucet.
My first thought was," I do NOT want to climb up under the sink, with the disposal and years of dirt and grim and who knows what else to change the fixture. Let's call a plumber".
Well, actually my FIRST thought was, "we spent HOW much?"
Next was, "I want to get this done and out of the way".
Zelda kept gently encouraging me.
"If my father can do it, so can you".
And after many hours under the sink,
which wasn't nearly has cramped as I thought it would be.
and a couple additional runs to the hardware store for new tools,
"we spent HOW much?",
I was able to cut, pry, wrench, and pull the old one out,
*I'm going to get half way through this and not be able to get one bolt loose and , Hey, how about we call a plumber?*
and finally install the new one.
Which works wonderfully.
Zelda love it, it's "her" new faucet.
(got me laid!)
as it should be!
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