Plumbing awaits no virus. Drips and leaks are drips and leaks through fair weather and foul.
Consider the mudroom sink. Hearty, robust, good for washing pets or boots or anything in between.
Almost a throwback to the legendary farm sink where Grandma canned vegetables and strawberry jam.
Mudroom faucets are also usually more functional than decorative. This is the mudroom after all.
A gooseneck spout complete with a garden hose attachment thread is the very epitome of life in
a household mudroom.
So naturally with a drip or leak the guiding principle is simple: Expensive repairs with inadequate
replacement hardware must be avoided wherever possible.
Fortunately, I happen to have an extensive assortment of washers from the Pleistocene onboard my truck.
Yes, there was a time in America when a jar of washers was the only item necessary to fix just about
any faucet in a typical home. Bathtub, lavatory, kitchen, cutoff valves and even the outside hose bib
were all repairable with little more than an adjustable wrench and screwdriver.
Since all this hardware was also from the Pleistocene repairing 2 cutoff valves and the hot and
cold handles on the sink made for a straightforward service call.
I even threw in a chichi new handle set from my legendary salvage hardware box as part of the job.
Your mileage may vary since this type of fixit is increasingly uncommon in the 21st Century,
but this time everything went well with no trauma attached to changing mudroom routines because
of new or awkward modern hardware.
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