Bathroom faucet repair

Forget about repairing it....It's probably the original cheap plastic (junk) unit.
Go over to Home Depot or Lowe's and pick a better one that you like.

Take the old one in so you can check for clearance, sizing, and base plate fit.

I have had very little success repairing a faucet, even if it is a quality S&B faucet. Odds of repairing a RV faucet would be slim to none.

As stated above just pick up a new one that fits.

downtheroad wrote:
Forget about repairing it....It's probably the original cheap plastic (junk) unit.
Go over to Home Depot or Lowe's and pick a better one that you like.

Take the old one in so you can check for clearance, sizing, and base plate fit.

X2.
Do't buy a new RV faucet. You'll pay too much and it will also be junk.
One from the HW store will bolt right up.

Install a S&B Moen bathroom faucet. If it leaks or binds up you simply replace the cartridge. Moen also has a top-notch help line-I had a leaky kitchen faucet and they diagnosed the problem and sent me the parts at no charge.

I agree to just replace it. With a 2007, it won' t be anything weird (my bathroom faucet is an old marine style and the holes don't fit anything else) and you can get something you really like for a lot less than trying to fix it.

If you're going to throw it away, you may as well tell him to go big and just buy a new trailer. Never hurts to just change the rubber O rings and learn something.

If it is leaking on the vanity top rather than dripping it is most likely o-rings on the valve stems. Take it apart then head to the hardware store. Also try cleaning your aerator, if it is plugged it will create back pressure on your stem seals and possibly push water through. I love the posts that assume you have a poor quality non repairable faucet. My 2008 original equipment bath faucet is a quality piece.

Fisherman wrote:
If you're going to throw it away, you may as well tell him to go big and just buy a new trailer. Never hurts to just change the rubber O rings and learn something.

Have you ever disassembled one of these half pound, all plastic pieces of chrome plated garbage? Probably not, since many of them are just glued together and unrepairable. They are simply not worth plaguing yourself with. They can't cost the trailer manufacturer more than five bucks a piece, and every time they break, the parts are way more than the POS is worth. A decent, sale priced faucet from any big box store is a far better way to handle this issue.

Durb wrote:
If it is leaking on the vanity top rather than dripping it is most likely o-rings on the valve stems. Take it apart then head to the hardware store. Also try cleaning your aerator, if it is plugged it will create back pressure on your stem seals and possibly push water through. I love the posts that assume you have a poor quality non repairable faucet. My 2008 original equipment bath faucet is a quality piece.

Sure they are the same quality, after all trail-lite by R-vision was a quality coach builder just like Carriage. I'm sure your Carriage was an entry level, low cost, weekend grade, ultra-lite built with the lightest, thinnest materials, and full of low end commodity parts, like chromed plastic faucets, and 4MM luan as the thickest structural panel in the whole rig, right? Hum, maybe this is a bit out of your wheelhouse? As a former Trail-Lite owner, and admirer of Carriage rigs, I'm trying hard not to laugh at this.

If you built a Trail-Lite of that era to Carriage standards, and left it on the same frame and suspension, it would literally droop at the ends until the bumper drags, and the springs would collapse. Not even apples and oranges here.

soren wrote:

Durb wrote:
If it is leaking on the vanity top rather than dripping it is most likely o-rings on the valve stems. Take it apart then head to the hardware store. Also try cleaning your aerator, if it is plugged it will create back pressure on your stem seals and possibly push water through. I love the posts that assume you have a poor quality non repairable faucet. My 2008 original equipment bath faucet is a quality piece.

Sure they are the same quality, after all trail-lite by R-vision was a quality coach builder just like Carriage. I'm sure your Carriage was an entry level, low cost, weekend grade, ultra-lite built with the lightest, thinnest materials, and full of low end commodity parts, like chromed plastic faucets, and 4MM luan as the thickest structural panel in the whole rig, right? Hum, maybe this is a bit out of your wheelhouse? As a former Trail-Lite owner, and admirer of Carriage rigs, I'm trying hard not to laugh at this.

If you built a Trail-Lite of that era to Carriage standards, and left it on the same frame and suspension, it would literally droop at the ends until the bumper drags, and the springs would collapse. Not even apples and oranges here.

I have a trailer and don't monitor the build quality and plumbing fixtures of other brands. I have no basis to presume his sink faucet is garbage and non repairable.