Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008

A small thing like a kitchen sink.


Now one would think for a normal handyman (and I think I can call myself one) that changing a kitchen sink unit in a fitted kitchen wouldn’t be a big problem!

On Saturday my wife and I decided to drive to the local do it yourself super market to buy a new kitchen sink unit. We had been talking about replacing the old sink for quite some considerable time. After no luck at the first store, they had a large assortment but the one’s that came into consideration were too cheap (we was looking for one that was going to last us a few years.)

On the way home we decided to do a detour and check out another DIY. Well it didn’t take us long to find one in our price range and also my wife liked it (which is always good.)

The weather turned out to be extremely bad on Sunday, it started to rain around eight and rained all day and all night into late Monday morning. My Sunday run was in the rain, not that I mind, you can only get drenched once.

After getting back from my run I told my wife I would fit the new sink in after lunch seeing that the weather was so bad and there was no sign of it getting any better.

I started at half past one, first taking all the drainage pipes apart, then came the most tricky part, you see we have a warm water boiler (electric low pressure) under the sink and the tap has five connections and also the dishwasher is also attached to the tap (that’s what I meant by being tricky.) After mastering all that all I had to do was take the dishwasher out from underneath the worktop because the draining board side of the sink is placed over the dishwasher.

Now the problems started to develop, I could not get the dishwasher out from underneath the workingtop. No matter what I tried it wouldn’t move a millimetre. The people that had put the kitchen in for us had fitted it so tight (putting it in before the work top was fitted.) that I was unable to move it

There was no way I could get at the clamps that hold the sink in place without moving the dishwasher; I finally came to the conclusion that all my work was in vain and because there was no way in which I could remove the work top seeing that it has three sides to it and they are all fitted and glued together.

There was nothing more I could do but to put every bloody thing back together, fighting the frustration while doing so. I was sorry for my wife she had looked forwards to a new sink and I could see she was disappointed.

On the good note I hadn't destroyed any of the packaging and on Monday morning I was able to return the sink and gett my money back (110 Euros.)

What does one learns from this? check every possibility what could go wrong before tackling the job.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss

2 Kommentare:

RoskillWarrior hat gesagt…

I can well imagine the frustration...

Bazza hat gesagt…

What's wrong with the sink you have?