Home Ownership

[bzarcher]

The moment when you realize "I could totally fix this myself, if the $critical small part hadn't rusted out and shattered."

In a not unrelated story, I took the jammed drain plug out of my bathroom sink today after the Angelbeat seminar. Further repairs on hold until I see if I can replace said part without buying a whole new faucet.

Comments

[flaggerx.livejournal.com]

Does it need replacement or can it be cleaned? Or is part of the lever mechanism missing?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

The piece coming into the main drain pipe from the lever, which the drain plug itself hooks into, has snapped. Once I removed the entire drain and cleaned all the parts (hoping I could clean and reassemble it), you can see where it snapped off the lever, and the rusty remnant that was still hanging off the drain plug.

[flaggerx.livejournal.com]

Well, they're pretty easy to change with a decent sized set of channel locks.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Oh? I didn't think they'd sell that without the rest of the faucet.