Ain't No Quit in a Diabetian!

By Scott Coulter Ain't No Quit in a Diabetian! I've spent the last five days learning more than I ever cared to know about plumbing. My wife and I decided, after years of living with a leaky faucet that required us to turn the hot water on and off by turning the shutoff valve UNDER the sink, to replace our faucet with a new one that would work properly. And we figured we might as well also replace our old dishwasher, which didn't work and recently started ending each cycle with about two inches of brownish standing water in the basin. Needless to say we've been washing our dishes by hand for quite a while (and each time, reaching under the sink to turn on the hot water with the shutoff valve…). So…we ordered our new dishwasher, and purchased our faucet. Initially, we were planning to have a plumber come to take out the old stuff and put in the new. Well, the day before our dishwasher was to arrive (and to be installed by the store that sold it to us), we had the plumber come out just to disconnect and haul away the old one. It was a quick and easy trip for him, and it still cost us $75, which is why we decided the install was going to be done by the store (in spite of reports that the store installs are never quite as good or reliable). The plumber's estimate for the install of the new dishwasher, and replacing the old faucet with the new one (plus replacing an old shutoff valve and a few other odds and ends that would go along with all this) came to about $250&n...
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