Thursday, March 25, 2010

Learnin' A Little Plumbing: Kitchen Faucet

Ya'll might remember my plan to make the kitchen & bathroom in my tiny Luck cabin much more eco efficient... there was no bathroom at all and the kitchen was spread out in a space equal to the bedroom. I cut that room in half and am working on piecing it back together with the help of my friends Noelle (pex plumbing) and Mark (carpentry).

I decided to take the old kitchen sink that had already been in the house and re-furbish it with just a change of faucet fixture. When I was attempting to take the old fixture off, mainly made of cheap plastic and corroded badly to the sink, I learned how to put one back on.

(Note to self: Taking shit apart really does teach you how to build/put things together!)
I had to use pliers to get the old parts off because there was so much old plumbing tape and the funky blue/green colored stuff metal corrodes onto itself when wet. Putting the new one on is fairly easy - you just spin those big plastic thingies all rightie tightie till you can't push anymore.
Yay! I swear putting stuff together myself is doing good things for my self esteem. I recommend trying this at home. DIY! :)
XoXo

5 comments:

  1. I'm flabergasted! Refurbishing a kitchen is NOT easy. I wouldn't know where to begin, except to look in the Yellow Pages. Loved your kissing trees. When we lived in Hawaii, I learned that the date tree enables a birdie to drop whatever for the palm tree to grow up beneath, nourish off the date, then kill it off. Mother Nature has her ways!

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  2. Hey Kittie!

    I loooove dates. I mean seriously love them, they are one of my favorite fruits --- i wish I could grow them here but they are so tropical, i would have to have a green house - but then how would the birdie come to do it's job?
    Thanks for sharing your story. :)

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