New Red (Collar) SINK!!!

Since my mother was in town in December, our kitchen sink has been leaking.  An investigation of the drain pipes revealed a disaster of rigged-up incompetence beneath our stainless steel monstrosity of a sink.

Look at that horrid mess masquerading as a drain system.

So, I went outside to the garage and pulled out the old, red enamle coated, cast iron sink that was given to us by Jason Kutchma from the Durham rock band Red Collar.  The sink sat in our garage for two years as I hate plumbing more than electrical work.  I know electricity is much more dangerous than plumbing but I have never had much luck with pipes.  Anyway, thanks Jason, the sink looks great!

Replacing the old drain baskets turned out to be the hardest part of the job.  We needed two tools for gripping the drain on either side of the hole in order to dislodge the fittings and remove the basket.  When I finally got them out and my knuckels had been worn down a bit, I put the new sink in the old hole and replaced the drain baskets with new ones.  I spent a little extra to get “professional grade” dain baskets and I’m glad that I did.  These new drains hold the water in the sink until I don’t want it in the sink any longer.  No more do we have to struggle to fill up the sing with water.

So, after the sink was in, the drain baskets replaced, I had to get down undereath the sink and rebuild the drain pipes.  The only problem was that the new drains were not only off center, one basin being larger than the other, but they were not inline with the grey water drain pipe.  This meant getting a drain kit that I had to extend to one end while cutting down drastically on the other.  Then, in order to get the sink drains to flow into the grey water pipe, I needed a drain trap that would swivle toward the back and align the whole contraption with the sink drains.

I know, “boring”.  But whatever, I entered this work worried and nervous and came out of it with the beautiful new sink and a leak free drain system that is one of the few things in the place done to code.

We are super excited to start washing our spring veg (if its even possible to be excited about such tedious labor) in the new sink! 

If you come out to Hurdle Mills, I may even let you do the dishes.

Peace!

Oh yeah, and here's the newest heart beat to stalk our crib, Stripey, AKA Mr. Stripes.