Did I Say Peaceful & Relaxing?

Whoops.

I'd totally forgotten about the maintenance guys coming over today.

It all started on Friday when I got home and there was a post-it note in the left-side kitchen sink from Rob saying not to use that side of the sink because it was leaking underneath. The garbage-disposal side, thankfully, drained just fine with no leaks. No big deal, we could get by with just one side until maintenance came by to fix it.

Both of us pretty much stayed in our separate spaces, snoozing away on Saturday, so we forgot to put in the call. Rob took care of it on Sunday, and left me a note saying that they'd be by to fix it on either Monday or Tuesday since it didn't really classify as an emergency.

Well, the maintenance guy showed up a couple of hours ago and worked on it for about a half an hour, then left to get reinforcements. He came back with another guy, and they brought in stuff like hacksaws, sledgehammers, and torches. At the time, I was trying to watch a little ESPN in the living room, but that proved fruitless once they brought out the big guns.

It seems that the drain pipe was an easy fix, but then they noticed that our cold water had very low pressure. That didn't seem right, so they went to investigate. First they thought it was a clog in the faucet, then maybe a clog in the feed line. Turns out that basically the whole damn sink/pipe/fixtures needed replacing, but the hardware just didn't want to cooperate. So they spent about an hour destroying out kitchen. Seriously--I wish I would've taken pictures--it was an insane amount of work to fix a leaky pipe.

But after busting out all of the offending pieces, they had to replace pretty much everything but the sink shell itself. Luckily that was ok, otherwise the counters would've had to come up, too. And they had the pry-bar sitting there ready to go, I saw it.

Finally, after almost two hours of smashing, hammering, sawing, and numerous other types of noisy destruction, they just finished up a few minutes ago and got the kitchen put back together. So we now have a new faucet, the sink doesn't leak, and we've got plenty of cold water pressure (the hot water was never a problem).

I guess that means I'm free to get back in there and start cookin' again.

Mikey