Well today is day 4 of being at home. But I guess it technically doesn't count as a "stay at home from work" day, since today is our flex Friday, so we wouldn't be working anyway. It did, however, mark the fourth day that the plumber couldn't make it back to our house. Because it snowed last night. It snowed a lot last night.
So, being the impatient resourceful person that I am, I started googling "how to replace an O ring on a single handle kitchen faucet". Surely it couldn't be that hard. And the plumber was going to charge us $125 to help us out. After about 10 minutes on the Internet, I somehow talked my unconvinced loving husband into trekking out in the snow to Home Depot. Surely someone there could help us. And based on my research, O rings would only cost us about $2.
Driving conditions were actually better than yesterday. The snow provided adequate traction and we made it to Home Depot. We found a guy to help us, but since we didn't bring the busted O ring with us, we didn't know what size we needed. Off to the faucet section we went to see if Home Depot sold our sink - negative. But standing in the faucet aisle, we I realized that it would be cheaper to just replace the whole faucet than to pay the plumber to fix our O ring. Long story short, we agreed to purchase a new faucet and attempt to replace our old one. It can't be that hard to install, right? David wasn't entirely convinced.
Fast forward one hour and....we have a new faucet!
It would have only taken 20 minutes to replace the thing, but the old one was such a pain to get out. We're pretty sure that the builder attached the faucet to the sink before putting the sink in the counter. There's no way they did it any other way. So, we're back in business!!! I think I'll bake some cookies tonight to celebrate! Now if we could just get the front door unlocked...
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