Gone, but not forgotten

… or lamented. My disgusting old sink has at last disappeared from my kitchen. It didn’t go without a fight but it was worth every cut, knock and skinned knuckle 😐

It’s just gone 10.00 pm and I’ve only just finished clearing up. It’s been a horrendously long day as I started 11 hours or so ago and only stopped briefly for a meal and drinks. Today’s high was 30 degrees Celsius, not inside my house of course, but even so my tee shirt is wringing wet as I had to do the whole job by hand with just sledge and club hammers and a cold chisel. And as I’m also covered in dust, I can’t wait now to get under the shower.

But I refused to stop until I’d totally removed the old sink from my kitchen. I promised myself that I wouldn’t stop until I’d done it, but anyway, in practical terms it has also raised a lot of dust and I didn’t want that to go on for a second day. I’m not sure whether knocking this sink out or cutting out the old tiles in my lounge has been the worst job that I’ve tackled here, probably the tiles but this must come a close second. It’s going to take a day or so longer than I originally anticipated to finish the job because of the amount of making good there is to do. Because of it, I had to buy a couple more compression couplings so I could make some stub stop ends for the hot and cold water pipes that I had to cut, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to turn my water back on. But that didn’t take long, so apart from having no kitchen sink, I’m in pretty good shape all in all.

Now it’s time for that shower 🙂