Plumber Pete put his plumbing skills to the test today. As you may remember, the en-suite half bath is the only room in the house that wasn't touched during this remodel so far (well, apart from changing out the blue toilet seat...).
The faucet was corroded to the point where there were distinct visible gaps between the counter and the faucet body. Yuck!
We'd gotten a new faucet a while ago but didn't want to pay the plumbers to put it in. Mechanically, the theory of removing and installing a faucet fixture is easy.
The difficulty comes in, as we learned, when there is so much corrosion on the connecting pipes that it's nearly impossible to get the nuts off to even remove the old faucet!
Here's what the faucet looked like when it finally came out.And here's a shot of the new, much improved faucet. It's night and day!!
I also rediscovered a framed painting of my grandparents', which works perfectly in the hallway.
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