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SITREP
I rent an apartment from Nielsen Properties (aka "Nielsen") here in Midtown Sacramento and I guess it was just time for my kitchen sink to *crash* completely:
1. The faucet started leaking, but not just drops, it was a consistent small flow of water that I had to mitigate by using strong rubber-bands to compress the lever as close to the faucet as possible to reduce the flow;
2. And unfortunately, only HOT water was coming out of the faucet - there was no cold water (so I had to kind of inconveniently mitigate this for myself by constantly traveling to the bathroom sink for glasses of water OR to the bathroom tub if needing to fill up a pitcher with cold water; and then on top of all that,
3. This is also when the garbage disposal decided to crap out.
THE SETUP
So I was having a winner-July-month! I just knew in advance that I would need (want) to be home during any repair work that transpired and unfortunately, I was work-traveling for most of June and July during the week (and so when I was home on the weekends, I had to endure these plumbing-indignities).
So these irritations no doubt took longer than necessary since I wouldn't be able to sync up my schedule with a plumber until I would be home more regularly, WHICH as it turned out happened to be this week and the rest of the summer.
NIELSEN & ROONEY PLUMBING
Thankfully, Nielsen has a relationship with Rooney Plumbing (aka "Rooney") so as soon as I put in a work request to Nielsen, Rooney was already on the ball contacting me to set up an appointment the very next day.
And actually the owner's nephew, Dylan, ended up being my plumbing-guy to rescue me from my plumbing predicaments.
GREAT WORK
Dylan did the visit to see what he was up against. He noted the faucet issues and said he would head out to Home Depot to get the replacement faucet which would take care of the leak.
But before he left, he did some "magic hand" stuff with the garbage disposal under the sink, found some debris, noted a disconnected electrical line (because when I flipped the switch, there was not even a sound to the motor coming on), clicked some reset buttons on the disposal unit and got the unit working before he even walked out the door! [That would have been a much more expensive headache if he had had to replace the entire unit, but he didn't have to.]
Dylan came back an hour later with a new sink faucet (newer model of the one I had before) and set it up - and no leak! I should also state at this point, Dylan called in a work notice that the was turning off the water to my entire building (8 units) so he could continue the faucet replacement.
This was also necessary because when looking at the cause of only the hot water coming through my faucet, he discovered a clogged cold water line that he had to fix (DE-clog) in order to get that working again.
After doing the particulars, he turned the water to the building back on, and *whooosh*, my sink was working again with both Hot AND Cold water.
THE LOWDOWN
I couldn't be happier to have a working kitchen sink again in all of its faucets (and faucets ;) ), and I am grateful to Rooney Plumbing for making this happen. read more