{"id":10627,"date":"2021-10-07T08:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:47:03","slug":"my-553-faucet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/07\/my-553-faucet\/","title":{"rendered":"My $553 faucet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The expensive faucet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I think I have mentioned that both of my bathroom faucets were useless for the entire 51 days of the TS7. The upper bathroom faucet was useless even longer – it was reduced to a dribble mid-summer. So my first RV maintenance priority when I got to Ft Myers was to fix the faucet problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which I did. For $553.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, that is expensive for replacement of two faucets. And it doesn’t include the cost of the replacement faucets (about $130), so the total cost was close to $700. But it does include a $130 remote service call charge. And the bulk of the 2.5 hours of labor (at $120 per hour) was to get and install in-line cutoff valves on the four faucet lines (2 hot, 2 cold) and the upstairs toilet. I figured that it would be worth the cost to put cutoffs on the lines. I know why they weren’t there when I bought the RV – Heartland wanted to save a few bucks on the construction cost – but needing to shut off the water supply to the entire RV every time some fixture needed to be changed was just stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost also included an hour for the repair guy to run to Home Depot to get the right cutoff valves. I had tried to get them myself, based on his description, but utterly failed. I got two different types but they were both wrong. So chalk up $120 to my incompetence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a pricey repair. But it feels damn good to have running water in my bathroom sinks again. I now go into a bathroom occasionally, just to see the water run. A cheap thrill that wasn’t so cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I have mentioned that both of my bathroom faucets were useless for the entire 51 days of the TS7. The upper bathroom faucet was useless even longer – it was reduced to a dribble mid-summer. So my first RV maintenance priority when I got to Ft Myers was to fix the faucet problem. … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10630,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions\/10630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}