My advice is if you have to go through all the trouble of crawling (dreading it first) under the cabinet to get to the faucet for removal, why replace it with another piece of junk Phoenix faucet? I went through the troubles of trying to repair the phoenix faucet with zero luck. Bought a new one from Phoenix, installed it and guess what? Same problems. Get a quality built faucet and get on with life. Think about how many times your home faucet is used, how old it is and they are many times more trouble free than faucets built for vs.