20 March ‘08 Thursday
Yesterday morning it finally happened…our shower faucet let go. This wasn’t really a surprise to us as it had been “acting” a little funny the last couple of months and when Louise turned the water off the cold side started spitting water all over the shower. Fortunately I had already contacted the technical people at Monaco a couple of months ago and they had given me a possible idea as to what I had to do to replace the faucet. What they had told me was so impossible to believe I called for another opinion…they gave me the same answer. The shower stall sits on the corner of the wall that backs to the kitchen and the faucet is directly in the corner of the shower stall.
Yesterday morning it finally happened…our shower faucet let go. This wasn’t really a surprise to us as it had been “acting” a little funny the last couple of months and when Louise turned the water off the cold side started spitting water all over the shower. Fortunately I had already contacted the technical people at Monaco a couple of months ago and they had given me a possible idea as to what I had to do to replace the faucet. What they had told me was so impossible to believe I called for another opinion…they gave me the same answer. The shower stall sits on the corner of the wall that backs to the kitchen and the faucet is directly in the corner of the shower stall.
Now, attached to the kitchen wall are floor to ceiling and doorway to exterior wall, beveled mirrors and they have to be removed. Yep, they have to be taken off so that I can get to the back of the shower to remove 2 retaining nuts and remove and re-install the two water lines, and that’s all... As it was, neither Louise nor I had really liked the mirrors but there wasn’t really any reason to take them down until now. So for having the faucet go out gave us the reason and timing to get rid of them. There is only one more thing we have to do now and that is pick out a new wall covering and get it mounted over the hole we now have in the kitchen. I was a little surprised as to how little time it took to get the wall of mirrors off, the faucet replaced, and settling down to lunch having gone as far as I could in finishing the project…now let’s get ready for a sharing a bottle of wine with Dave and Carol (a couple that purchased one of my kayaks). Louise and I look forward to doing some paddling with them back up in Washington.