Kitchen
We decided to fix the kitchen sink today. A shiny new sink, faucet, garbage disposal, spud wrench, drain assembly, a half dozen pieces of PVC, plumber's putty, joint compound, ball valve, 22-16 gauge barrel wire connectors, silicone caulk, rubber mallet, steel braided supply hoses, and a whole day stuck under the kitchen cabinets eating spider webs later, and we have a partially installed sink!
We didn't get the drain hooked up because we couldn't find the hacksaw. And it isn't caulked yet, but other than that, it's as good as it's gonna get. Shortly after I started, the shut-off valve for the hot water supply line broke, so I had to shut down the water heater and replace the valve, which took two attempts before I got it to not leak. As it turns out, when using pipe joint compound, you have to put it ALL the way around the joint, not just part of the way and say "it's probably good enough" - because it probably isn't just good enough.
It turns out, the old sink is cast-iron, which is pretty heavy and almost gave me a hernia pulling it out. And there was one of those inline water heater things on the underside that kept getting caught on the sewer vent, but it eventually came free.
The old sink, the gross messed up disposal, most of the piping, and the inline heater are sitting out in our side yard until trash day. I'm not moving it again until I have to, even if our social standing falls a little with our neighbors.
We didn't get the drain hooked up because we couldn't find the hacksaw. And it isn't caulked yet, but other than that, it's as good as it's gonna get. Shortly after I started, the shut-off valve for the hot water supply line broke, so I had to shut down the water heater and replace the valve, which took two attempts before I got it to not leak. As it turns out, when using pipe joint compound, you have to put it ALL the way around the joint, not just part of the way and say "it's probably good enough" - because it probably isn't just good enough.
It turns out, the old sink is cast-iron, which is pretty heavy and almost gave me a hernia pulling it out. And there was one of those inline water heater things on the underside that kept getting caught on the sewer vent, but it eventually came free.
The old sink, the gross messed up disposal, most of the piping, and the inline heater are sitting out in our side yard until trash day. I'm not moving it again until I have to, even if our social standing falls a little with our neighbors.