As plumbers, we should not quit our day jobs
Serge and I actually managed to fix our kitchen sink! It was one of those little niggling things that you get used to working around, and then you (after a couple of years) forget about. But while we were away, the faucet worked its way loose, so Serge borrowed some tool from his dad, and we spent 20 minutes dancing around eachother with me trying to hold the faucet in place, and him doing mysterious things under the sink. Apparently the spray hose really complicates things. Just when I thought he had had enough of house maintenance for the season, he decided we should finally fix the leaky sink by replacing the drain basket. Well, not surprisingly, when I had bought the widget, it seemed like a simple install. Unscrew this, slide out that, pop in the new assembly, tighten everything up and you're done. Right? Wrong. What we had was not a standard assembly. Although we could loosen everything, the various pipes were too long to remove. I think the whole thing must have been instal