Water everywhere
March 11th, 2010 by GregA couple of days ago in my post It’s a mystery I mentioned we were in process of fitting some kitchen units etc. As some of our worktop is not over any units we decided to fix some wood to the wall under the worktop to help support it. This was great idea, drilled first hole in wall, drilled second hole in the wall, had already screwed screws into wood so just needed to put up to holes in wall and screw up.
NO, one of the screws wasn’t lining up with the hole in the wall so rather than move the screw I decided to drill another hole in the wall, this was a big mistake as there just happened to be a pair of water pipes just where I drilled and I ended up having a shower fully clothed.
We turned off and called plumber, he arrived later at the same time the Father inlaw was here cutting hole in worktop for sink and taps. Anyway, after about an hour, the plumber had fixed the pipework, the water was back on and I had decided not to put a peice of wood in that spot.
I then thought I might aswell fit the tap, simple with flexi pipes it wouldn’t take too long. Well we had water spraying everywhere each time we turned the water on to the tap, and I wasn’t going to give up until I figured out the problem. Midnight came and I thought it was indeed time to give up until the morning. During the night I wondered if there maybe was an ‘Olive’ or ‘washer’ missing so mentioned it to Tracey. ‘Oh there are some washers that came with it in that little bag’ was her reply and in that bag was the washer that fitted perfectly, and stopped all the water.
We completed the tap yesterday morning and put the sink and waste trap in yesterday afternoon, it did take a while but now it is complete on one side of the galley kitchen. Well apart from the tiling which we will probably do next week. The other side of kitchen will wait until we have purchased all the units from Ikea as well as a new hob.
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