Romantic
gestures aside... our Valentine’s Day gift to one another is... running water in the
kitchen sink. Our plumbing to that spot... has been broken for about a week and a half... due to
a leaky faucet... that stopped working altogether. Not to mention... it had been
corroded for a while... on the outside spigot arch, making it UGLY too. (But in all fairness it was fifteen years old.) The
inconvenience of NO WATER has been intolerable for
the most part. Who doesn’t operate without their kitchen sink in working order? My husband called the Price Pfister people to get instructions
on how to fix it and they surprised him by offering to send out a new faucet,
FREE OF CHARGE. Who can resist a deal like that? This product is warranted for
life to be free of leaks, so they wanted a NEW one in place, not a repaired one.
It was a $200 item replaced totally FREE. Imagine that? BRAND NEW and fancier
than we had. A bargain for sure. Fixing it was one thing, but putting a new one in is quite another. The next problem was... my husband is no spring
chicken, not agile in the least… so he worried about installation and getting
in all the positions needed to connect it without hurting his back or making
himself sick. (He has COPD and SPINAL STENOSIS) I
finally convinced him now that his Social Security check came in, to call the
plumber and see how cheaply he could do it for us and how quickly? I know hiring a professional cuts into the FREE part, but still we were given a gift. So for the cost of a dozen roses, and box of
chocolates… everything was back in working order with new hardware in place,
in time for Valentine’s Day. Now... I’m feeling the love, aren’t you?
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