That's our daughter. The gal can do anything she puts her mind to.
We've had a leak under the kitchen sink and suspected it was coming from the spray attachment. I've not been using it for several days waiting for Papa Pea to screw up the gumption find the time to replace it. (My dear husband gets dizzy and a very sick headache when he is forced to do work requiring him to lie on his back so I wasn't pushing him to do this chore.)
Today after eating lunch with us, dear daughter informed us that the rug in front of the sink was wet. What??
Turns out that even though the spray attachment hasn't been used, the water pressure in the hose going up into the head was still leaking. Ugh.
Angel that she is, daughter volunteered to fix it for us.
Fortunately, we had an identical sprayer to use as a replacement. Years ago when we first installed this sink faucet unit, we found that the box we purchased had been opened, prior to us purchasing it, and some parts were missing. The store told us to keep what we had and they replaced the box with a new (unopened!) box.
Not the easiest place in which to work.
Can't. Quite. Reach.
We tried to provide some comfort.
While checking out the situation, she found two spots where it looked like there might have been some leakage in the caulking around the sink and possibly what looked to be a small hairline crack in the bottom of the right hand sink (!), so did what she could to repair those spots underneath. (New sink is on our shopping list.)
Lastly, she also re-caulked around the upper side of the sink and the surrounding counter.
I now have wide tape protecting the new caulking (so I don't get stuck to it, she said) and the right hand sink is off limits until tomorrow morning.
The new sprayer is working perfectly, and we're hoping this is the end of the minor floods under the sink.
All thanks to our talented daughter who isn't afraid to tackle most anything. Whadda gal. (And her father is eternally grateful she saved him from doing the job.)
16 comments:
Well I do believe that woman deserves a round of applause and a raise in her allowance! Looking good 😊
Glad you have such a resourceful daughter!
Goatldi - We'll give her twice the allowance she got last week. ;o)
DFW - We are, too! :o)
Impressive! Plumbing skills are so useful (says the woman who has none.)
Knowledge and ability are useful, but WILLINGNESS is priceless! (Says the mother of a very capable but unwilling son.)
You must have raised her with 'can-do' attitude; so good on all of you. Women can do all these things and no one should convince them they can't or shouldn't. It isn't complicated (after all men have been able to work it out and they are incapable of following knitting patterns or reading maps).
Wow, I'm impressed! Being able to figure things out and tackle them is a priceless skill.
Girl power!
tpals - In same boat here. No plumbing skills. Won't even get close to electricity either. Hubby understands electricity and can do that in an upright (most of the time) position. ;o)
Michelle - Hang in there, mother of the unwilling son. I have a feeling he'll hit a stage where some big changes will be made and you won't recognize him as the same offspring. Perhaps being out on his own (hint, hint) will speed him in that direction. ;o)
Tigger - All you say is true! My husband watches me making a quilt or following a complicated pattern for some other kind of handwork, shakes his head and says he could never in a million years do it. We all have our strengths, don't we? :o)
Leigh - You said it! She also is extremely computer-savvy and knows how to research and find information she needs.
Katie C. - Super Woman and all that! (She still kindly lets me do all her alterations and mending. Which I'm happy to do.)
Always great to have women like that are life! I used to be able to do that kind of stuff when I was younger but my back would not appreciate it right now. My hubby hates getting under the sink like that because it is a really hard work space. Good luck with your new sink! Always nice to have something new
What a Gem! Just the willingness to help is priceless, let alone the patience to figure the project out! Bravo Bravo Chicken Mama!
Nancy - That's the worst about sink problems . . . it's always a difficult space in which to work!
wyomingheart - She IS a gem. Very independent and yet sensitive, caring and nurturing. (Well, maybe except for yesterday when she told her father that he'd better shape up or she'd push him off a cliff when she had to care for him in his wheelchair.) ;o)
Isn't it wonderful to have a handy person around? Great job, CM!
We all have our strengths, as you said Mama Pea. Hubby is talented mechanically, technologically, and can turn his hand to just about anything, but says my knitting friends and I are talking a different language when we get together!
Rosalea - Don't tell anyone, but I think men and women speak a totally different language no matter what they're talking about! ;o)
That is good work! I really dislike "under the sink" work for the same reason: There's just no way to do it with putting a knot in pretty much every muscle!
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