Nick Johnson

Why am I so excited about a faucet to put in not just one but three exclamation points after the word in all-caps? After all, it's not normal for someone to get so excited about a faucet, is it?

First, note the handspray. That's a nice handspray isn't it? When I first ordered this faucet from Fixtures and Faucets in San Mateo, they erred in entering the order and I received the faucet without the handspray. So I took it back and asked them to order me the faucet I had originally requested.

Over a week went by, and I hadn't heard anything from them. (The last batch of faucets took just under a week to receive.) I called to see what was happening. They checked into it and returned my call later to tell me that the faucet I wanted was backordered and would not be available until the first week of MAY. Might have been nice to receive that news before the granite countertops went in and before the plumber was scheduled. A call to the manufacturer confirmed that they were indeed out of stock and backordered.

Then I was on to the mad scramble to find my faucet in less time. I found an online store that happened to have exactly one of them on-hand. Their price was a little bit more expensive, and they wanted another $100 to overnight the faucet to me. I started calling around locally, and found that Floorcraft in San Francisco had one on-hand. The cost was more than Fixtures and Faucets, but less than the online store, and I wouldn't be paying for overnight shipping.

Today the faucet arrived. The plumber comes tomorrow. All is well.

Labels: kitchen

# posted by Nick : 12:36 PM