For those of you who don't know we have a less than handy landlord who when asked to fix something tries to do it her self and 9 times out of 10 ends up making the problem worse. Prime example our kitchen faucet. For some reason it started dripping some months back and the drip got progressively worse. We called, she came over and banged around in our kitchen for a while, and then left stating it was fixed. It was fixed for about 10 seconds and from there it progressively got worse. It ended up getting so bad that we had to manually turn our hot water off to save our sanity and to stop wasting water. We only turn the hot water on to wash dishes and then promptly turn it back off. We've called my dad and asked his opinion, but honestly it's hard for him to understand the problem since he's not here. We've been dealing with the issue for some time and debating if we should call & tell our landlord that the problem she said she fixed is actually worse or if we just keep on dealing with it. Not having hot water in your kitchen sink is a major annoyance, but then again so are having a leaky faucet and having a landlord who tries to save money by fixing (aka making things worse) herself. The other night I was doing dishes and the sink was driving me bonkers. Jesse decided to to some investigating and we took the sink apart. I must admit I was a bit nervous since neither one of us are plumbers and he's not really the handyman type. I thought we would surely loose a piece or forget how to put it all back together and we'd be sinkless for who knows how long. Well Jesse proved me wrong. He did some research online and called the ACE near our house. We walked over there, bought some parts, and before you knew it with a little help from me (mainly reading online sink fixing directions) he had fixed our sink. I have never seen him so Proud or Excited. It was all he could talk about the rest of night. He ended up going out with the guys later that night and I can't help but laugh as I picture him slightly buzzed going on and on about how amazing our faucet is and how he fixed it. He feels very accomplished as he should. I'm so glad our sink is fixed and I'm very proud of my Mr. Fix it.
2 comments:
Yay! No more washing my hands in cold water when I come visit. 2 thumbs up for Jesse!
i'm soooo happy steve used to be a plumber, i never have to deal with these kinds of headaches. yea for jesse for figuring it out. i could read directions all day and probably never be able to fix it.
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