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Today was the day that was planned to have the sink (in the upstairs bathroom) replaced. I should explain a bit first. A couple of weeks ago, I turned one of the taps on the faucet of our bathroom sink. It has a tendency of sticking so you have to put some pressure on it before it turns. Anyway, while I was turning the hot water on, I heard this awful screeching noise before the water started to flow. Nothing bad seemed to happen, so I left it at that. The next day, while I was trying to turn on the water, I noticed that the faucet wasn't stable anymore. In fact, it was quite loose! Somehow the caulking must've been broken (after years of jarring the faucet and the water damage). Oi.
The plan was to replace the faucet in the bathroom, but when my dad went to remove the faucet, he noticed that the sink was also in dire need of replacement (probably from water damage and other things..). So, we had to go out and buy a new sink and drain pipe in addition to the..
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Oops, I never got around to finishing that previous entry. I got distracted by someone.. (at one in the morning they ask?) Anyway, let us continue shall we?
So it was "replace the sink" day, and we headed out to the local Home Depot (which isn't really local, but more local than Ikea). They didn't have any sinks the same size as our old sink, so after scratching our heads, wondering which sink to get, we chose one that was slightly smaller than our previous one and headed back home. After picking up some soy milk, we proceeded to remove the old sink (after turning off the water of course). No problem. Then we slipped the new sink into the slot of the old one.. and it didn't fit. It was too big. Too big you say? Didn't I just say that the new sink we got was smaller than the old one? Oh yes it was. The new one however, had these little feet that protruded from the edge of the bowl, which meant that to fit the whole thing in, we had to have a larger hole to accommodate these feet. Sucky. It took fifteen minutes of cutting before we were able to slip the new sink into place, the next part of the project was to slide the new drain pipe in and connect it to the trap. Looking down the sink hole, you could tell that the sink wasn't aligned properly with the trap. It wasn't even close. Moving the sink up was out of the question. We didn't have the space, and moving the trap out was impossible since it was firmly attached to the rest of the plumbing. The only thing we could do was to yank and pull at the pipes so that the connection between the drain and the trap was sort of straight, and then tighten up all of the connections so that any gaps in the seals caused by the poor fit were squashed. That required a lot of tightening (and a few pennies we had to use as feet for the screws that attached the sink to the cabinet). In the end, things worked out fine. It'll take some time to see if this thing falls apart or not..
We went out to the Lotus Pond (a vegetarian restaurant) for dinner tonight for someone's birthday. Afterward, we had a game of pictionary, where the birthday person won, and then a few games of schoolyard handball at the local elementary school. I've been out of practice (last time I played was sometime in early high school), but I still had a couple of my moves. I forgot to mention to the guys that when I was in grade seven, a few of us got so good that we started to show off my hitting the ball between our legs. Eventually, it became one of the rules, and we all got pretty good at it. I think it shocked them the first few times I did it. (It also helps when you're playing with a racquet ball.)
Anyway, this entry's getting harder and harder to write as I slowly drift..
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