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<p>[QUOTE="MickiSue, post: 172236, member: 73"]</p><p>That whole process is something I strongly identify with. I tend to have an attitude of thinking that, if the information is available online, I can read/watch it enough times to be able to do it.</p><p></p><p>Which, you know, usually works pretty well. I replaced two bathroom vanity tops and installed new faucets for both of them, and removed two bathroom light fixtures, spray painted them with a brushed nickel finish and rewired and replaced them. I completely refinished the cupboards in both bathrooms and my kitchen.</p><p></p><p>But, in changing the faucet and shower head in the one bathroom, where the original plumber had installed the fixture backwards, I couldn't get it to quit dripping, and ended up torquing the pipes so hard that they broke. </p><p></p><p>Cue the $450 plumber bill. </p><p></p><p>OTOH, I would have paid close to that for just the new fixture, if I'd gotten it at retail from any of a dozen plumbers, and now I know that "finger tight" really really means that, in plumbing. Even if the fingers belong to a woman in her 60's.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="MickiSue, post: 172236, member: 73"] That whole process is something I strongly identify with. I tend to have an attitude of thinking that, if the information is available online, I can read/watch it enough times to be able to do it. Which, you know, usually works pretty well. I replaced two bathroom vanity tops and installed new faucets for both of them, and removed two bathroom light fixtures, spray painted them with a brushed nickel finish and rewired and replaced them. I completely refinished the cupboards in both bathrooms and my kitchen. But, in changing the faucet and shower head in the one bathroom, where the original plumber had installed the fixture backwards, I couldn't get it to quit dripping, and ended up torquing the pipes so hard that they broke. Cue the $450 plumber bill. OTOH, I would have paid close to that for just the new fixture, if I'd gotten it at retail from any of a dozen plumbers, and now I know that "finger tight" really really means that, in plumbing. Even if the fingers belong to a woman in her 60's. [/QUOTE]
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