With my step-daughter preparing to head to the trailer Friday for a Sweet 16 girls night, I wanted to get the kitchen sink working so they didn’t have to reach into the shower to wash their hands, and so that they could do their own dishes.
My sister arrived around the same time, and we got to work.
The hole for the tap wasn’t big enough so we started with that, and then re-siliconed it. We also needed to move a support bar back a bit because it was now in the way of the faucet.
Not long into working, long-time camp resident Kurt who travels from Windsor each week, came by and jumped right in to help. It’s a truly beautiful thing about our camp. People don’t hesitate to offer help and between everyone, there is a ton of knowledge and talent.
Kurt helped me get the tightening brackets on the sink, as well as attached the drain plug for me. He had some other advice of what we needed to attach the drain and faucet plumbing, before heading back to his trailer.
It turned out, between my leftover supplies from my home kitchen job, and with odds and ends my sister had in our shed, we had almost everything we needed to complete the job.
One 90 degree elbow short and with darkness upon us, we had to call it a night. The sink would have to wait until another day.
The one problem with doing work at the trailer, is that you are 20-30 minutes away from the supplies we need for these types of projects. It’s not a bad thing really. It should encourage better planning. At home, I can walk 10 minutes and have much of what I need for many home or auto jobs.