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I may have mentioned in the past that my dishwasher stopped working some years ago, and a couple of years ago, the boy toy and I took advantage of a quarterly "dumpster weekend" in my condo complex to get rid of the dead hulk.
Lately, after 55 years of hanging on the bathroom wall (this building was built circa 1964) and occasionally getting bumped and leaned on, the bathroom sink started to pull away from the wall. Then it developed cracks around the drain hole, and the water rushed out where it wasn't supposed to. I put a basin underneath the sink, but I really didn't want that to become a permanent solution. At best, it was unsightly; at worst, the standing water would start to stink.
So, when I got a large payment on August 30, the boy toy and I hauled our butts to Community Forklift, which just happened to be having a sale on most major appliances AND bathroom fixtures. We'd had our eyes on a bunch of GE Quiet Power dishwashers that looked as if they had been removed from an apartment complex when the owner decided to renovate all the kitchens, just because. They were on sale for $25 each. Yes, $25. And then we found a bathroom sink that was basically the same size and shape as the one we had, only newer, and in an ivory color instead of 1960s yellow (but I did NOT care about being matchy-matchy). That was $25 also. But with the sale discounts, I paid less than $37 including sales tax!
Getting the dishwasher home was the crazy part. The appliance did NOT fit into the trunk of my 1999 Corolla. Not the back seat, either. I thought the boy toy was going to go all Incredible Hunk on me and rip the doors off the car, but we ended up paying another $10 for a ratchet strap to hold the thing partially in the open trunk, and we drove home very slowly.
Back home, we paid our handyman neighbor a couple of hundred bucks (plus about $60 in parts) to install the dishwasher and sink. The plumbing under the sink still has a tiny drip -- we need a new washer (the flat disk thing, not the machine) or something. Otherwise, though, the dishwasher works *perfectly* and *quietly*. When I am sitting at my desk, I can't even hear whether or not that dishwasher is running! I can't believe I paid less than $25 for such a model!
The new bathroom sink is great, too. When the handyman pulled the old sink off the wall, we found that the bracket that was supporting it was literally disintegrating with rust. Really, it looked like part of the wreck of the Titanic. I think the new sink bracket is made of aluminum, so it will hang onto the wall like a champ.
I am happy to spend less time doing dishes. Finally I feel a bit more middle-class! Since the song "Good Lovin'" is on a TV commercial at the moment, my brain keeps wanting to filk it:
Good plumbin'!
(Yeah, baby, I got to have plumbin'!)
Good plumbin'!
(All you need is plumbin'!)
And on and on and on... :-) :-)
Lately, after 55 years of hanging on the bathroom wall (this building was built circa 1964) and occasionally getting bumped and leaned on, the bathroom sink started to pull away from the wall. Then it developed cracks around the drain hole, and the water rushed out where it wasn't supposed to. I put a basin underneath the sink, but I really didn't want that to become a permanent solution. At best, it was unsightly; at worst, the standing water would start to stink.
So, when I got a large payment on August 30, the boy toy and I hauled our butts to Community Forklift, which just happened to be having a sale on most major appliances AND bathroom fixtures. We'd had our eyes on a bunch of GE Quiet Power dishwashers that looked as if they had been removed from an apartment complex when the owner decided to renovate all the kitchens, just because. They were on sale for $25 each. Yes, $25. And then we found a bathroom sink that was basically the same size and shape as the one we had, only newer, and in an ivory color instead of 1960s yellow (but I did NOT care about being matchy-matchy). That was $25 also. But with the sale discounts, I paid less than $37 including sales tax!
Getting the dishwasher home was the crazy part. The appliance did NOT fit into the trunk of my 1999 Corolla. Not the back seat, either. I thought the boy toy was going to go all Incredible Hunk on me and rip the doors off the car, but we ended up paying another $10 for a ratchet strap to hold the thing partially in the open trunk, and we drove home very slowly.
Back home, we paid our handyman neighbor a couple of hundred bucks (plus about $60 in parts) to install the dishwasher and sink. The plumbing under the sink still has a tiny drip -- we need a new washer (the flat disk thing, not the machine) or something. Otherwise, though, the dishwasher works *perfectly* and *quietly*. When I am sitting at my desk, I can't even hear whether or not that dishwasher is running! I can't believe I paid less than $25 for such a model!
The new bathroom sink is great, too. When the handyman pulled the old sink off the wall, we found that the bracket that was supporting it was literally disintegrating with rust. Really, it looked like part of the wreck of the Titanic. I think the new sink bracket is made of aluminum, so it will hang onto the wall like a champ.
I am happy to spend less time doing dishes. Finally I feel a bit more middle-class! Since the song "Good Lovin'" is on a TV commercial at the moment, my brain keeps wanting to filk it:
Good plumbin'!
(Yeah, baby, I got to have plumbin'!)
Good plumbin'!
(All you need is plumbin'!)
And on and on and on... :-) :-)
