A Guide To Install A New Faucet

Fixing a new faucet is not a very difficult task to perform. A homeowner with sufficient plumbing knowledge can do this installation in just one or two hour. The tools required for the installation of a faucet are: pair of large channel lock pliers and a crescent wrench.

First of all, turn off the water supply to the faucet by turning off the water supply of the valve fixed under the sink. Once you are done, check that no water flows through the faucet by turning on the faucet.

Now cut off the supply lines from the valves that are connected to the hot and cold supply pipes. Once you have disconnected the supply lines, the nuts of old faucet that connects it to the sink can be loosened and removed.

After this, take out the nut that connects the stopper pull rod and stopper drain bracket assembly to the drain tail pipe. After that take out the J-Trap drain assembly from the sink tail pipe. Now you can easily take out your old faucet off the sink. After removing the old faucet, clean the area around sink with a rag and putty knife.

From your local home improvement store, you can buy a new faucet having equal spacing between hot and cold threaded tail pieces as like your old faucet. Along with this, take two flexible replacement supply lines.

Connect the new flexible supply lines to the threaded tail pieces of your new faucet. Next install the new faucet into the mounting holes on your sink. Then secure the faucet to the sink using the mounting plates or nuts that came with the new faucet. Attach the other end of the flexible supply lines to the valves on the hot and cold supply pipes. Next, attach the new tail pipe to the sink drain.

Now install a new drain/stopper assembly that came with the new faucet into the sink basin. Again connect the J-Trap drain assembly to the drain tail pipe and start back the supply line valves.

The installation is now complete. You just need to check the connections. For this, start the faucet and check all the connections for any leak. If any of the connection is leaking then turn off the water supply and tight those connections.

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