Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Something you can sink your teeth into...

So let me start at the beginning. Last monday, the sink in the bathroom started leaking. Well, it was more like just the hot water tap that started leaking. Anyway. When Frank got home from work, i told him that it was leaking, and, being the "handy man" that he is, he decided to go inspect it and see what he could do. After checking it out, he determined that it was a loose...something or other...and that he needed a new part from Cole's. Well, after going to Cole's and talking to our Uncle Jack the plumber, he soon realized that we would have to get a whole new faucet, and at that point we figured we might as well just get a whole new sink. We couldn't go right away because we were both very busy, but we were going to go on Thursday. For the time being, he tried to turn the hot water off to the bathroom sink. To his surprise, the valve didn't shut the water off completely, so we had a slow leak to start with. Everyday, that leak got bigger and bigger until by Thursday it was a fairly steady running. I wasn't happy about the leak to begin with, so as it went on, i was more and more unhappy. It was raising both our water AND our heating bills, since it was the hot water...and it was coming out hot. Thursday came and it was sleeting out, so we decided not to risk going to Lowe's with the baby. As each day came and went, snow and sleet kept coming, and we kept going without a sink. And the leak, it kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally, on Friday night, when the snow slowed down, we decided we couldn't wait any longer to get a sink and get the leak fixed, so off to Lowe's we went. Of course, i picked out the sink, cabinet and faucet. If it was up to my hubby, he would have picked the most expensive ones there...i'm still trying to break him of his spoiled habits. And finally, after a week of leaking, we got the sink put in last night...thank you Uncle Jack, for your help!!

What do you think?!

No comments:

Picture of the week...

Picture of the week...