All About the Kitchen Sink

The other evening when I entered the kitchen I noticed a small puddle of water below the kitchen sink. I thought to myself, "Hmm, that's strange I don't think I spilled water when I was washing the dishes." And then I did what any normal person would do and wiped up the water and headed on my way. Later that night I needed a plastic bag and when I started rummaging around underneath the sink I realized there was more leaked water.

After calling Marc in to take a look we realized that the washer around the pipe that connected our sink to the drain had rusted through and actually fell off in Marc's hand. So a couple days of not using the right side of the sink and letting the dishwasher fill up and it was off to Home Depot for a replacement part. 

Last night we had the pipe replaced in about 10 minutes. Easy-peasy. But, we figured, while we were messing with the sink we might as well swap out the faucet which we've been wanting to replace since we moved in. The instructions said less then an hour so we were all in. Except our probably 20 year old faucet didn't get that message. 

We first removed the hand sprayer to gain more access to the faucet pieces. In that process we realized that the bolts holding the faucet to the sink were so rusted there was no way for us to unscrew them. Quickly our thoughts spiraled - if we can't take the faucet off the sink, we'll just remove the sink and replace both. But after a quick internet search we realized that our extra large sink is actually quite pricey to replace so for the cost of replacing the sink we could replace the whole countertop. However, I'm pretty sure that removal of the countertop would lead to new cabinets so suddenly we were looking at a kitchen remodel all because we wanted a new faucet. Neither of us were ready for that. 

Thankfully we realized we could cut through the bolts which would allow us to remove the faucet. So after another trip to Home Depot to purchase the right blade to cut through metal and another hour of cutting our way through the bolts in the tight space under the sink we finally had the old faucet removed. 

The rest of the installation was as easy as the instructions had intoned and within half an hour we had our new faucet and soap dispenser up and running. 

I've never been happier to do a pile of dishes then I was today. And the new faucet works like a dream!