After working through the aforementioned issues in the previous posts we happened upon some water in the middle of the basement. Jen then noticed that it was coming from the floor above at the kitchen sink.
Since there was a plethora for "stuff" in the cabinet we hadn't noticed a problem until this water in the basement, but when we removed everything we could see that we had quite the mess under the sink. It appears that the faucet has been leaking for quite awhile, the bottom of the shelf was mushy and black.
So it was time to replace the faucet. Unfortunatly, the nuts had rusted and were difficult to remove. Basically I ended up breaking them. It was not a fun task under the sink with a mucky floor. Eventually got it off though.
Not sure what all this is, probably minerals from the water... Not a good look in any case...
The old shut off values wouldn't turn anymore, so I cut them off and soldered on new one. I have to make sure that the pipes are still properly positioned so that they drain in the winter. These pipes will move up and down now.
Once the old faucet was off and the new turn off values installed the faucet installed easily and Nick did most of the work. It is nice to be able to hand off projects to other people. I am hoping that the new faucet will drain properly, so we might be getting a new one. The guy at Menards said this is their busiest time of the year!
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