Home Maintenance and Repair

So you want to install a new Faucet ?

    Your wife has this thing called a honey-do-list. If you are newly married you might be surprised by this development. Well guess what all wives have that list its genetic or something. Right on top of the list is replace the bathroom faucet. You decide since the item has been on the list for a year, and recently the wife has started to hint about calling a professional, that you ought to get this faucet changed. Your not sure where to start. These instructions will work with any faucet you want to change.

1. Turn off the water to the faucet, either at the valves under the sink or the main valve usually found outside on the water line that comes to the house.

2. Remove all the stuff stored under the sink to make room for yourself and your tools.

3. Get a flashlight and crawl into the cabinet and look up at the bottom of the faucet you will see where the 2 hoses connected to the faucet. Carefully lessen the nuts holding the hoses to the base of the faucet.

4. There will be nuts holding the faucet in place in the counter loosen and remove them. Now pick the disconnected faucet up and set it aside.

5. There may be some sealant or just plain dirt build up where the faucet was setting on the counter top. You should remove it to make sure you have a smooth surface to set the new faucet on.

6.  You can take the old faucet with you to the hardware store and pick out a new one that will fit the same way the old one did.

7. Set the new faucet on the counter in the holes.  Put the new nuts in place do not over tighten them you could crack the counter depending what kind of material it is made from. The nuts only have to be tight enough to keep the faucet from moving and provide a positive seal. Finger tight is probably tight enough.

8. Reconnect the hoses, turn back the water, check for leaks under the sink and bam you get to check that one off the list.

 

 

Troy Dobson             Fair Oaks, California getaliving@comcast.net