Moonlighting as a Plumber

Finally, we got the plumbing under the kitchen sink fixed! And no, we didn't need to call a plumber. I figured that between me and my gardener, this job should be a no-brainer. With a lot of elbow-grease ( and ruined fingernails!), we got the job done!

I now have cold water on my sink and the refrigerator line is connected. The bar is officially (re-) opened.

Check out the before and after pictures:



It looks easy, huh? My arsenal of vocabulary now includes compression fitting, pipe cutter, ferrule, coil pipe and teflon tape. You should have seen how those home improvement guys tried to explain to me how to install the coil pipe, or how to cut a copper pipe. One even stole a small piece of teflon tape "enough to wrap around the thread" of the joint I just purchased and placed it in my shopping bag claiming "nobody would notice such a small piece anyway". I could have told him we have several rolls of them in our garage but that would have spoiled my fun.

I am just not sure why they think it was necessary to speak slow when explaining something to me. Hmmmm..it's not as if I went there not knowing what I was going to buy... or do. Heck! That's what the internet is for. Besides, my resident gardener is also a plumber (among other things).

The look on the plumbing guy's face at Home Depot was priceless when I asked if any of the "faucet thingies" come in any other color. Picture John McEnroe yelling "You cannot be serious!"

Wicked!

Thanks, Ace Hardware and Home Depot!