My kitchen faucet stopped working at some point in the middle of tax season. I was doing dishes by using only the sprayer, since my dishwasher hooks up to the faucet, and while I typically do them by hand, it’s tricky when you have no constant running water.
I was too busy to do dishes anyways. The short term solution was to use paper dishes and silverware (something I’ve never done, even if I have guests on my patio, everything is washable).
So I changed my faucet.
Then I figured, “hey, while everything is cleaned out of the under-stink cupboard, I should clean the cupboard floor because it looks awful.”
When I scrubbed and scrubbed, I got no response. Technique one is try to clean a mess. Technique two? Cover it up!
So I tape off the edges, when I noticed there was a big gap on the left side.
So I bought latex caulk to fill in the gap and white enable paint to paint the rest. While I usually use my local hardware store (I bought what I could there, of course), when they didn’t have a small sized white enamel paint, I went to Menard’s (it’s ok because I saved BIG MONEY).
I ended up doing two rounds of caulking and three coats of paint. It doesn’t look perfect, but 1) it’s a big improvement, and 2) it’s just the cupboard under the sink – no one will ever see it because it will be full of boxes of assorted garbage bags, a fire extinguisher, a bag full of nice-ish reusable bags (like Target, not cheap-felling ones like Cub), and wonderful chemicals.
That’s my adventure of manual work for the moment.