He is out, and thus away from the damage zone if something else breaks, but it really will be okay. A professional certainly would have had it done sooner, but then they'd have had to cough up the change.

"Always," he says, laughing. He stands up and stretches, having spent so much time shoved under the counter. (For the record, he is a perfectly decent cook, if you like southern food.) "How's the place comin' along besides the waterworks?"