In article , PGG wrote:

Sigh... Also this is the only bathroom in the house. I figure I can take
3-4 days off to do this job and our inlaws live 0.5 miles away


If you expect to be able to do a complete bathroom remodel in three or four
days, you are in WAAAAAAY over your head.

Best advice I can give you is that the handymen and/or plumbers you've had
looking at this are idiots. Get somebody out to look at it who actually knows
what he's doing. The faucet *can* be fixed (or replaced). You might have to
remove the sink to do it - which probably means cutting out some of the tile
above it - but it *can* be done. Remodeling the entire bathroom to fix a
faucet is just insane.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?