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Minor Home Remodel

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

We recently noticed that the sink in our mas­ter bath­room was leak­ing. I traced the link to a crack in the sink itself; so we decided to make do for a lit­tle while by using the sink down­stairs. When you have to climb up & down stairs to wash your hands or brush your teeth that gets old real quick. This week­end we did the work to replace the sink. How­ever we weren’t too keen on the idea of just replac­ing the pedestal sink with another one. So we splurged a bit and bought a van­ity & sink kit from Home Depot. We also picked up a new faucet to go with it (the old one was hideous). Today we installed it. *ugh* Now I really under­stand why plumbers charge so much. It’s smelly, painful work in cramped quarters.

I’m really feel­ing it in my back and shoul­ders, from being tucked under the sink hook­ing all the pipes up. It didn’t help that this was the first sink I’ve ever installed, plus the first cab­i­net I’ve ever installed. Count­ing the extra trips back to Home Depot for items we for­get (and items we didn’t real­ize we needed); it took us 6–7 hours to get every­thing hooked up. Right now we’re wait­ing for all the caulk to cure before we try run­ning the water. By tomor­row night, we’ll know for sure if we did every­thing right. I’m fairly con­fi­dent on every­thing except the drain pipe. So cross your fin­gers for us!

Inci­den­tally, the pho­tos attached to this post are the “after” ver­sions. I for­got to do “before” shots and was too busy to do any “dur­ing”. Sorry. :(

Update 5 Dec 2006: All the caulk has cured and the sink works per­fectly (no leaks). As an added bonus, it drains much bet­ter but I think that is due to the drain on the old sink not being hooked up properly.

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