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Hot take: the $12 tension rod that saved my kitchen in a 380 sq ft studio
Saw a lady at the Bed Bath in Columbus use a shower tension rod under her sink to hang spray bottles after her cabinet flooded from a leak the landlord ignored for 2 weeks. Tried it in my rental and now nothing sits on the cabinet floor, so when the pipes sweat again nothing gets ruined. Anyone else have a cheap fix that started from watching a stranger in a store?
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laura_chen411mo ago
A tension rod under a sink with sweating pipes is just gonna rust and sag in a few months, you're trading wet bottles for a bent rod. And that lady at Bed Bath in Columbus was probably just killing time, not handing out life advice. Real fix is a $6 drip pan or a towel, not mounting hardware under a cabinet you don't own.
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the_tessa1mo ago
Sweating pipes under a sink are usually a cold water thing and that condensation drips right onto whatever is below, so a rod that holds stuff up off the floor actually does solve something a drip pan can't if the pan fills up. A cheap shower rod is like three bucks and if it rusts in two years you replace it, no big loss. Calling a random Bed Bath lady a time killer is fair, but the idea itself isn't dumb just because the messenger was bored. I've seen people use coated rods for this exact thing and they last way longer than people expect. Not every fix has to be the fanciest one, sometimes the five dollar hack holds up fine.
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