Original watercolor miniature aceo barn painting - Installing a Sink

"Barn on a Hill"
2 1/2 inch x 3 1/2 inch
$18 in My Etsy Store
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SOLD
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I need to get on the ball or I will have to change the name of this Blog, From A Painting a Day, to A Painting When I feel like it.

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The Remodel

First I had 5 consecutive weekend Art shows, then the past 10 days, I have been remodeling the Kitchen. I put Granite tiles over top of our existing Formica counter tops, and added a tile back splash. Of course, the new tile didn't match the room color, so I had to paint the room. I going to say that painting is a lot easier than tiling. My wife thinks it looks great, and she calls it our new SEMI- PROFESSIONAL KITCHEN.

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Impending Doom

So, I thought I didn't want to put the old sink back into a new counter top. With some convincing I talked my wife into getting a new sink. It was 9 at night and we had been without a sink in the kitchen for 3 days. So we decided to go ahead and put it in.

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At the last minute, my wife says, "You know, you are going to ruin those clothes".
Fine, what ever! So now I am prepared to install the sink in my boxers.

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The Incident

The new sink is cast iron,very heavy, we have to be careful not to chip the granite. So I get my son to lay under the sink and do his Superman imitation. We put the sink in the hole, and my son supports it from the bottom side, like he's doing a Bench Press. When we lower the sink, we can't get it to fit quite right, then we hear the Granite starting to crackle. This was suppose to be easy!!!

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I have to get that sink out in a hurry, so it doesn't break the Granite. So I grab it with both hands and jerk it out. I had to throw it against my body to get it out without bumping the Granite. Turns out the sink was just slightly smaller than it said it was suppose to be, and that was just enough for it not to fit.

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The Aftermath

You remember my wife told me I would ruin my clothes. Well she ruined her clothes.
Remember when I jerked the sink out real quick. I got that rubbery Caulk all over my stomach. We had to put the old sink back in quickly before the caulk dried. We got the old sink in fine, but while we were putting the old sink back in the Caulk that I had on me, dried. I took me an hour of scrubbing in the shower to get that stuff off.

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Semi - Professional Kitchen Remodel
Now you understand where we got the title, Semi - Professional.