I got the animals fed in the morning in what is now yesterday. It is a little after 1:15 in the morning. Then I did the dishes to get an idea what has been going wrong at the kitchen sink. Sadly, it turned out to be just about everything. The drain was leaking the inputs were leaking, and the bottom of the sprayer was leaking. There was nothing right. I am amazed the bucked under was not overflowing. The simple solution would be to replace everything. I gave the drains some new seals and replaced the drain baskets in the sink. As for the taps, I replaced those with a higher riser than the basic one we had, and it now allows the coffee-maker reservoir to stand under it, making it easier to fill it and fill it fully. The sink seems to be now working really well. Perfectly? Perhaps, but I dare not say.
I need to remember to go back down and get a new head for the shower and make that also a much more pleasant experience. It is leaking everywhere, and the pressure is not up to par.
After buying the kitchen tap parts, I went to work for a couple of hours and earned about half the money to cover the cost of it all. It was meant to be my day off work, but I had all this to do, and to get the problems solved there. Part of that was covering the costs.
It is the middle of the night, and I ama awake and hurting. I don’t know if it was the chili I ate at supper, or something else, but I am sore, and my joints are sure hurting. I had a couple of Advil, and while I was down there, I had a look at the taps and the new drain baskets, and how it all brightens up the sink. That old stainless-steel sink improves brilliantly with new parts. I am not saying it looks totally new, but it sure is fresh.
Is it worth the time I was supposed to have had off working? It was not really much of a choice. I mean, I could have just come home and put the parts in. But I do not think we can afford the cost without the extra. I also will add, I had to put the effort into the left basket as the nut was really stuck on, and I had to take it apart piece by piece to get the basket out. Once the flange was destroyed with a pair of wire cutters, it fit through the hole in the bottom of the sink. I spent a lot of time on the floor under the sink, and while doing that, I was feeling just fine, which was a lot better than how I used to feel a year ago or do now. I was able to work through the whole job, rather than becoming too sore to finish it properly as would have been the case a year ago. I need to voice that appreciation. I need to speak of that accomplishment.
Time to try to go back to sleep.