12-24-2017, 11:28 AM
So the wife came home with a hundred dollar kitchen sink faucet and tells me its time to replace the old leaky one. At around four a.m. this morning I get to work while she's asleep in the barkolounger. Wonderful help mate.
The faucet is connected to the sink by a 6" threaded bolt and a 3/4" rusted nut. Needless to say the nut was rusted to the bolt and there was no room for a wrench in the small space the faucet sits upon. I hit it with some PB blaster and wait a few minutes. A six inch pair of vice grips, some busted knuckles, under-my-breath swearing and one hour later the nut finally loosens. ^&(^$$&&**((^&*^^%&&%$*&%*&***()&)
Open the new faucet box and read the instructions. First thing is to run a bead of silicon around the plastic mating plate between the sink and the faucet base. Run down to the store room and find a tube of clear silicone and my caulk gun only to get back in the heated kitchen to find out the silicone had gone bad.
Off to Walmart for a few items. Seventy buck later and a couple of hours wasted with the MRS. I get back to the project and assemble the faucet and connect it to the sink. Open the cocks and water sprays all over the inside of the sink cabinet.
Come to find out the hose which sends the water to the spout had a screw in joint which had not been tightened at the factory.
So at ten a.m. this morning I finally finished my sink replacement project. Not bad considering the labor was free, the wife never one bit(#3& and the sink faucet doesn't leak.
Merry Christmas.
The faucet is connected to the sink by a 6" threaded bolt and a 3/4" rusted nut. Needless to say the nut was rusted to the bolt and there was no room for a wrench in the small space the faucet sits upon. I hit it with some PB blaster and wait a few minutes. A six inch pair of vice grips, some busted knuckles, under-my-breath swearing and one hour later the nut finally loosens. ^&(^$$&&**((^&*^^%&&%$*&%*&***()&)
Open the new faucet box and read the instructions. First thing is to run a bead of silicon around the plastic mating plate between the sink and the faucet base. Run down to the store room and find a tube of clear silicone and my caulk gun only to get back in the heated kitchen to find out the silicone had gone bad.
Off to Walmart for a few items. Seventy buck later and a couple of hours wasted with the MRS. I get back to the project and assemble the faucet and connect it to the sink. Open the cocks and water sprays all over the inside of the sink cabinet.
Come to find out the hose which sends the water to the spout had a screw in joint which had not been tightened at the factory.
So at ten a.m. this morning I finally finished my sink replacement project. Not bad considering the labor was free, the wife never one bit(#3& and the sink faucet doesn't leak.
Merry Christmas.