When it rains, it pours…

It seems like one of those weeks where all of our warranties have expired at once.

Late last week, one of the knobs on our kitchen faucet broke off. We weren’t sure if we wanted to replace the entire faucet or just replace the knob(s). Switching the one working knob back-and-forth between the hot and cold for a few days turned out to be effective motivation to find a solution. I wanted to avoid replacing the entire faucet until we remodeled our kitchen. Unfortunately, finding a replacement knob for our Kohler faucet turned out to be surprisingly difficult. I looked on eBay and at the local Habitat ReStore for a matching knob, but came up empty-handed. I then bought some universal replacement knobs from Lowes, but they had a horrible design (if your hands were even slightly wet, they were difficult to grasp), so we returned them. Unfortunately, the other hardware stores seemed to all have the same lousy selection.

Desperate for a solution, we ended up buying a new faucet. We wanted to get a Kohler to match the rest of the house, but we ended up buying a Delta faucet since it seemed to best match what we were looking for. I think we made the right choice – our new faucet is very nice.

Earlier this week, our garage door opener went on the fritz. The unit had always sucked, but it finally decided to take a shit. I had a new, fancy one installed by American Overhead Door in Appleton. The product was exceptional, but their customer service left some to be desired, but overall, we are quite satisfied.

On our way home from work on Tuesday (Wanda and I carpool), the car stalled at an intersection and the “service engine soon” light came on. I brought it into the mechanic yesterday, which ended up being $300 I will never see again.

We’ve also had a very slow leak in our roof for quite some time. It hasn’t been a big issue, but since winter was (hopefully, finally) over, we decided to have it looked at. We were hoping our roof didn’t need to be replaced since there were also some shingles that were peeling up. By recommendation from my dad, we decided to call Drew’s roofing in De Pere. Fortunately, the roofing guy said that our roof was fine and probably didn’t need to be replaced yet. He also caulked the leak and didn’t charge us anything. I was impressed with their customer service and would recommend them to anyone in the Fox Valley who needs roofing work done.

So far we’ve survived the week, but it’s only Thursday!