{"id":473,"date":"2004-07-30T23:55:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/30\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T22:55:48","slug":"a-tale-of-two-faucets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/30\/a-tale-of-two-faucets\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Faucets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The faucet in the downstairs bathroom has been disassembled for quite a while now; at least 2 months, since I know I took it apart before Michelle&#8217;s visit, and I believe it was even before the semester ended.<\/p>\n<p>When I first took it apart, I thought it would be a simple matter to put it back together again: go to the store, buy a replacement for the part inside the handle that was broken, then screw the handles back on.  But of course, as with anything related to home improvement, it was not that simple.  The store did not have a suitable part, and after going on a quest with my mother to a number of stores in the area, we became fairly certain that the part was no longer manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>The choice then became more difficult: should we get a new faucet, or try to buy some parts that <i>looked<\/i> like they might fit, on the off chance that one of them would be sufficient.  The latter has a danger of ending up costing us more money in the long run, if we had to buy a lot of parts before we found one that would work.  The former has its own problems &#8212; for some reason when I turned the water off to the faucet back in May, water continued to bubble up out of the faucet for quite some time.  Not mere hours, but for weeks and weeks afterwards.  Now it has stopped, which confuses me a good deal &#8212; was there a leak? If so, where has it now gone? It can&#8217;t have fixed itself.  Added to this concern is the difficulty of reaching the faucet underneat the sink; the bowl of the sink is very much in the way, and our vanity has two doors rather than one, meaning that a person cannot easily slide into it to reach.<\/p>\n<p>But in spite of that, now that the water has dried up, I&#8217;ve been intending to buy a new faucet and install it.  I was going to do that Thursday, then put it off to today, and now I&#8217;ve put it off until Monday.  Hopefully I won&#8217;t break anything.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faucet in the downstairs bathroom has been disassembled for quite a while now; at least 2 months, since I know I took it apart before Michelle&#8217;s visit, and I believe it was even before the semester ended. When I first took it apart, I thought it would be a simple matter to put it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}