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Well we have officially made it more then a week and the kitchen is holding together great. We’ll see when my nemesis and I will meet again, but for this week it’ll be quiet I’m on call for work and we will be preparing and a massing supplies for the playhouse work this weekend.

It’s been almost a week and so far so good on the kitchen, no more leaking fittings. Let’s see how long it will take for the next encounter with my friend the Kitchen.

We bought our house in the Fall of 2004 and we completely gutted the kitchen.In this process we added new flooring, appliances, windows, and moved some cabinets around. We also installed a new countertop and resurfaced the original sink. about 6 weeks later we discovered that the water connection for the refrigerator had not been tightened more then finger tight and was dripping water under the dishwasher. this caused the pine floor underneath the new lamanent to warp. We pulled up the entire new swiftlock cherry floor had to plane the pine floor and then had to install the swiftlock floor again. That was fun let me tell ya.

So now 2 years later I was curious about the recent loss in water pressure in the kitchen faucet so while I was looking for clues I found that the Hot water shutoff valve was not fully open. So what did I do being the genius that I am I opened it fully and thought nothing more of it. I did find that the faucet screen was clogged with some rust deposits from our cast iron pipes. Problem solved, not really problem created.

Well after a full day of having the hot water shutoff valve open it was leaking under the sink and once again under my Swiftlock flooring. Lucky for me I found it after a day instead of weeks like last time. Thanks to my trusty helper Emmett and the need to be on the floor with him.

So we quickly shut off the valve and started the prep work for taking the floor up again this make a total of 3 installations of this floor and it has held up pretty well. We removed the dishwasher and the fridge went back into the living room.

The valve was fixed and then instead of waiting for the floor to dry I used a paint stripping heat gun and saved myself 3 days of waiting and agony of no water in the kitchen. The flooring was back down 24 hours after being removed. the good thing this time was we only had to remove 3 feet of the flooring and the trim instead of the entire floor like last time.

Moral of the story: If something is not as you expect it there is probably a reason for it and if you change it go back and check on it later as there may be a new problem.