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So, apparently hard water eats metal plumbing, as we learned last summer when a pipe in the wall sprung a leak. The plumber said that the pipe had been put together fine, everything was normal, it's just that over time water hard as ours corrodes metal pipes.
This explained why the sink drains had become unusable, with screw-in drain plug/strainers. One wouldn't screw in anymore, and in the other the part it screwed into had broken off. I got plastic strainers, but those wouldn't plug the sink to fill it. Also, the faucet would actually leak (out the back) when turned on just wrong.
And hey, the faucet was much too low. The counters are, too. But on already low counters, the faucet was nearly horizontal from the base, meaning that to use it either of us had to hunch or bend over.
So yesterday J undertook an heroic renovation of the sink. He took out the old drains and put in new (as well as new pipe pieces for the ones that simply fell apart when he undid the drains), and replaced the faucet with a much taller one. Terrific! This will make a huge difference to sink usability. (Now we just need to figure out how to get stains out of porcelain.)
This explained why the sink drains had become unusable, with screw-in drain plug/strainers. One wouldn't screw in anymore, and in the other the part it screwed into had broken off. I got plastic strainers, but those wouldn't plug the sink to fill it. Also, the faucet would actually leak (out the back) when turned on just wrong.
And hey, the faucet was much too low. The counters are, too. But on already low counters, the faucet was nearly horizontal from the base, meaning that to use it either of us had to hunch or bend over.
So yesterday J undertook an heroic renovation of the sink. He took out the old drains and put in new (as well as new pipe pieces for the ones that simply fell apart when he undid the drains), and replaced the faucet with a much taller one. Terrific! This will make a huge difference to sink usability. (Now we just need to figure out how to get stains out of porcelain.)