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August 30, 2008
Am I the brunt of a cosmic joke?
About 3 months ago, yes months, my sprayer started acting funny. Half the water would come out the sprayer & the other half would come out of the faucet, which greatly affected my water pressure. I complained repeatedly and loudly, but couldn't get my husband very motivated to repair this. He did try getting a new handle for the sprayer, but that of course didn't change anything.
Then about a month ago, yes a month, the faucet stopped working at all and all the water came out of the sprayer. He called Moen for advice & they mailed us a part. In the meantime, I wrapped a rubber band around the sprayer handle so it would automatically come on & I could use both hands to wash dishes rather than having to always use one for the water supply. Aggravating, especially when you forgot & put the sprayer back in its stand insuring you a face full of water the next time you turned it on, but the part was on the way.
Wrong part. Then we waited another week, for reasons I still don't understand. Then we started having the black or chrome argument, which in all fairness is my fault. When we re-did the bathroom, I insisted on all black fixtures. And it did look so very good. But this faucet is sitting on top of a stainless steel sink, so frankly, I think chrome would look better anyway. But our light fixtures are black, he says. I just don't know too many people determined to have their faucet match their light fixture. I could have gone black - I wouldn't have minded - but you pay about 3 times as much for black and he wasn't willing to spend that much. And then I had my own requirements, specifically that it have a sprayer and that the water be controlled with a single handle. At one point I even accused him of not moving on this because it's not him that uses the sink. "I have to use it too" he says. Oh - he must be referring to the 4 cups of instant coffee he fixes himself on weekends - that's the only time I know of him using it.
Finally, finally, I break him down and talk him into a chrome faucet off e-bay. We pay so little for this faucet that should we decide after getting black countertops that we just have to have a black faucet, we won't mind replacing it. The next day, the handle breaks off the sprayer - the only functioning part of my faucet. That's when I decided this was all planned. It's simply not possible that this much go wrong with a single faucet as a coincidence. So now, I have to fish the broken off part of the handle out of the sink & hold it in place to use it. I no longer have the option of the rubber band. I know handles are not expensive, but really, we're talking about 2 or 3 days until the new faucet gets here, right? (I think you can see where I tried to tape the handle on - I didn't really expect that to work.)
According to the UPS web-site, Friday's the day. Except Friday evening gets here & I still don't have a faucet. So I get back on the web-site where they assure me they delivered it to my front door at 3:00 pm. Mike walks around the yard & checks the garage side of the house just to be sure. Nope - no faucet. So I call UPS, Friday evening, before a long weekend, and I'm told they cannot work with me, that I have to contact the company I bought it from & get them to run a tracer. I'll be sure to do this on Tuesday. In the meantime, if you live in Hixson & have a faucet in your front yard that you didn't order, would you call me?
| By Wifeepoo | 2:08 PM
