I like to think I am a simple woman. I don’t really require a lot to be happy. Give me a book and a cup of tea, a comfy chair inside or outside and I am content. I don’t need a lot of fuss and muss but one thing I do like are sinks that work.
You know that dilemma. You have a sink faucet that drips. Your husband doesn’t have the right tools to fix it without having it turn into a major project. It is only one little thing and not worth calling the plumber. So you live with it. For months. You learn how to leave it so that it almost doesn’t drip. Almost.
It is one of those things that you just live with because it is a pandemic and you don’t want to have anyone unnecessary in your house. It isn’t a major thing but it is irritating.
Then the bathroom sink clogs. You use drain cleaner and it really doesn’t help much. You order more drain cleaner. Your husband takes apart all the piping under the sink and the clog is obviously above the pipes and neither of you can remember how the drain thingy works.
So you finally bite the bullet since there are two irritating things in your house. The plumber is called, arrives a couple days later masked and ready to work and within 45 minutes both sinks are fixed and working as they should be.
What a difference it has made to have both of those irritating problems fixed. No more jiggling the faucet to get it to stop dripping. No more waiting for forever for the water to go down the drain. The bonus is now I know how the drain works for the next time it happens. Which it will.
There is a lesson to be learned here but I am not quite sure what it is. Maybe leave jobs like these to the professionals? Don’t let dripping sinks bother you? Stop using so many hair products that goop up your sink drain when you wash your hands? Buy a brand new house with brand new fixtures? Be patient? Don’t sweat the small stuff? What lesson do you think I should learn from this? Leave me a comment and Comment for a Cause.
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Leave a commentHa ha. These things tend to build up and then be bothersome a whole lot. Glad everything is back in working order. 😊
Ha! Be thankful for plumbers. Watch You Tube videos. Always fun to buy new fixtures! You made my day- great post.
I think the lesson is that you have material for a great blog post!! These things drive me mad too but I always hesitate to call a plumber.
Glad they’re fixed. Definitely don’t buy a whole new house, I love the house you’re in, and I think you do too! Plus, new house because of a sink? Probably not a fiscally sound decision. So I guess go with the lesson of “patience and all things will be resolved.”
I say God gave some people the ability to fix things. (Frank & I are not those people.) We should let them do what God wants them to do. We have a plumber, a sprinkler guy, an electrician, a drywall guy and a tile guy that I can think of right off hand. I do tend to wait until I have more than 1 thing and I do find that if I have sent a list of what needs to be done or written down and have each area cleared, they are pleased. In fact, one guy had quoted me a price and when he got done he said he wanted to charge me $40.00 less because I had everything ready to go. (He had to climb through the attic. We had moved boxes out of the way and had a ladder for him.) With the electrician, I had 8 things that had built up over the years. I went around with blue painter’s tape and numbered them and he was able to do all the things in 1 hour instead of charging for each item. (I checked with them to see if they could charge by the hour for little things.) I am grateful that there are people that can help us and do it so well and so quickly.
I think our first instinct is to fix it ourselves. We are blessed because in most things Chuck is a handyman. We are blessed to have professionals too that is for sure. I guess the thing to learn is have patience and them to know when you need to call someone. Glad everything is OK now.
It is such a relief to have even the least annoying problems FIXED!
Yes! Little things like dripping faucets just drive me nuts.
I can relate to this as I mentally click through the list of things that need fixing in this old house (including a leaky faucet). But first priority right now is finding the dead mouse that is stinking up our basement. Last night Randy started with boxes. This morning he was moving the dryer and will take that apart this evening. The last time we had this issue, a mouse had crawled into the furnace. We took preventative measures with the furnace. Hey, could we borrow your cats?
Yes–there is always something that happens to our houses, isn’t there? I am always trying to figure out the next thing that will need attention. Good luck with the mouse situation. Ugh. Not sure if Holly would be any help but Maksim is quite the hunter and would probably be able to find that mouse. Of course if it is dead….may be another story.
Oh, sometimes those small things are the most annoying. It’s always something with home ownership. My hubby tries to fix most things around here, but I keep saying, “You know, as we get older, this isn’t going to be easy to do anymore.” 😉
Chris can do most electrical things and some other things but we knew that he would spend countless hours on these projects and it just didn’t make sense to not call the professional. My ears are so happy to not hear that dripping faucet!