bathroom faucet woes.

I hate plumbing. And I do not like to use that word. 'Hate,' not 'plumbing.' Well, maybe 'plumbing' too. This bathroom sink and faucet were the worst hell I have experienced remodeling my house and it has never worked really. Well, it did for a little bit. Then the cold water supply started leaking from where I had used a compression fitting to attach the rigid supply line to where I had cut off the supply going to the fixture. So I shut it off. No cold water. I do not even want to think about how long ago that was but it was at least a (*cough*) year.

Then about a month or so ago the same thing started happening with the hot supply. This is why I hate plumbing. Hate hate hate.

So I knew I had to buy a new faucet. Trouble is the one I bought two of (that's part of this long story that never seems to end) had gone up from something like $80 to $150. And it was never my first pick. The first pick was a Kohler Memoirs Stately faucet that would match the shower faucet I installed with the guest bath remodel. But that one ran $300 and for some reason I could justify spending whatever I did on the shower model but not the sink one so I got a Pegasus one that was pretty similar.

But realizing I needed to fix this no working sink in the bathroom situation I went to Amazon and totally by chance some individual was selling that Kohler faucet for half price because their design plans changed! I totally grabbed it that night.

It came the other day, and after probably four or five hours it is installed. I did not bother with rigid supply lines for this install - I will make sure when I do the plumbing for our Jack & Jill bath and the new bath during the kitchen remodel to put the supply lines coming out of the wall lower to accommodate rigid lines and ignore the stupid Kohler instructions (that also did not account for a wide-spread faucet).

Anyways - it is not leaking now and was much easier to install with just braided steel supplies (although they don't look quite as nice). I of course am not convinced a leak won't pop up and I'll have to fix something but for now I have cold water. Yea!