Nothing better than washing dishes and go to empt the sink and think, gosh the water sounds really loud. Hmmm…

And then realize…. OH MY GOSH… the pipe under the sink drain had broke and there was water all over the place under the cabinet!

YUCK!

And then you have a whole pileup of dishes and no man around to save ya!

So we do what all good moby women do.

We go to Lowes the next day and bring parts and talk to the nice fellas over there. And then you buy what they tell you to buy.

Plumbing parts are relatively cheap actually, and not that hard to install. Kitchen sink parts all are finger screw on and all. No tools and sealing glue or anything is required. Pretty cool.

Just screw the pipe piece onto the bottom of the drain, and make sure the T section is pointing in the right direction to accept the pipe from the other sink. (Don’t ask me how I know that… hahaha) And get that all tight. Then you screw in the other sink section.

We had to unscrew the other pipe from the other drain to make it all fit. Since the non-drain side had to insert into the main pipe piece a bit, it was easier to do it that way.

I put my old 5 gallon pail under the main sink piece because I just didn’t want to have a repeat performance. My faucet is leaking a bit as well, and the water seems to come down that main pipe. I want to replace the sink and faucet with a one drain sink… and a nicer faucet, but I’m still saving my pennies for that. I want to get over to our Habitat for Humanity Re-Store and see if there is a suitable sink there! That would be sweet.

But it was nice to have all new pipes under there for less than $11. And it only took about a half hour to get it all fixed! Plumbing just doesn’t scare me anymore. It’s really not that hard. I think the hardest part is finding the right parts at the hardware store!!! That took almost 45 minutes of standing there, looking and considering what could be done, and can be done and what would be nice and what would just get the job done. A lot of options. But in the end, it was not too bad.

I’m definately going to have to have the old floor pulled out of that cabinet and a new one put down. It’s clearly gotten wet a time or two… or maybe 15 or 20 times! I don’t really store anything under there because it’s nasty. Another task for Tim to see if he can figure out how best to salvage the situation. I really would like to find some decent cabinets to put in there, but again, that will have to wait a bit. Just can’t afford to change out everything right at once!

At least it works now and I’m caught back up with my dishes!!!

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