Replacing the Pedestal Sink

Sim­i­lar to Drew Scott of the prop­er­ty broth­ers, I great­ly dis­like pedestal sinks. It’s wast­ed space!! You can’t put things on it, if you put things around it, well it just looks messy. Espe­cial­ly in a small town­house, every bit of stor­age space is impor­tant! The half bath had been both­er­ing me for­ev­er. With all the stuff strewn about in there, no one want­ed to use it…what an eye­sore. It has toi­let weird­ness too, and yes, it’d be smarter to replace the toi­let before the sink for space rea­sons, but monies, and the van­i­ty was on sale.

This isn’t a nor­mal DIY step by step because I ran into obnox­ious issues giv­en that the house is 30 years old and plumb­ing stan­dards have changed. You’d think I’d remem­ber from the oth­er projects, but alas. Instead, this is just some pic­tures of what I did and the end result. There is a mas­sive gap in pic­tures because I got real­l­l­l­l­l­ly frus­trat­ed. This was pos­si­bly the most slop­py install I’ve done yet. At least it looks so much nicer!! Haven’t per­ma­nent-ed any­thing as of yet. Wait­ing to make sure there are no leaks. And the caulk I used to secure the top is all wrong. Got loose with­in the day.

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Eye­sore!!
Cleaned up of clut­ter. Look at all that space! Not to men­tion it’s pret­ty much impos­si­ble to access the plumb­ing in the event leak or some­thing else hap­pens.
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Undo­ing the water sup­ply line
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It’s being held on by 2 bolt screws as well as a line of adhe­sive to the wall
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Thank good­ness it’s not screwed to the ground
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Undid the sink plug thing
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Sock­et wrench to the sink
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That suck­er was long!! Had to undo 2 of them in the small space.
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Sink gone!
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Unpacked the van­i­ty
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Dry fit­ting
Issue #1: the base­board and trim thing cre­at­ed a mas­sive gap. Bring on the Dremels!
New faucet!
Installing faucet to van­i­ty top
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After 7 hours and a mas­sive headache, back­ache, hand ache, and oth­er aches, final­ly got every­thing done
At least it’s flush to the wall. More.

DIY: Replacing 2012 Subaru Outback Brake Light Bulb

03/22/2018

One of my brake lights went out, so I need­ed to replace it.

Dif­fi­cul­ty: Very Easy!

Time: 5–10 min­utes

Tools: Philips head screwdriver(s), replace­ment bulb, gloves (impor­tant!!) and option­al ratch­et­ing sock­et wrench

Here we go!

  1. Open the trunk and you see this:
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2. Use the screw­driv­er to unscrew, and you’ll feel it click twice-ish

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3. It’ll pop out like this, so care­ful­ly twist/pull it and the ring out. Repeat with the 2nd one

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4. Care­ful­ly insert a thin screw­driv­er or pry tool around the side clos­est to the out­side and gen­tly loosen the part until it pops out

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5. Now you see this

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6. Take your big­ger screw dri­ver and locate these screws. Mine hap­pened to be stripped from last time and replaced WAY too tight­ly, so I need­ed the sock­et wrench to help

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8. And with a lit­tle pull towards you, the whole hous­ing comes off!

9. The one we need today is the mid­dle grey one where the lines con­nect. Just a lit­tle twist and off it comes

10. There’s the old bulb. Just give it a tug and replace it with the new bulb

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11. New bulb! *Impor­tant* Wear gloves before putting the new bulb in!! So, every­thing now goes back­wards. Put the bulb in and twist until it locks in place

12. Replace the brake hous­ing. There are two tabs on the side where the hous­ing will slide into.

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13. Slide it in…and…

14. …push! It’ll click into place.

15. Do every­thing back­wards and VOILA!!!

All done. Make sure the light works, but that’s all there is to it!!!

This is what hap­pens, by the way, when you touch the bulbs with your bare hands. The upper bulb has a burned spot where the oil from my fin­ger got, heat­ed up, and *poof* burned out the bulb.