Replacing OEM sink faucet set

[_tiredTeacher]

Plumbing is not my forte but I can do simple, straightforward stuff. DW wants a new kitchen faucet. I saw this in CW.
Has anyone installed one? How'd it go?

Teach

[_tiredTeacher]

OK. I have a week long trip coming up at the end of the month, and I never do a mod before leaving town. I met the lawyer, Mr. Murphy, when I was an auto mechanic.
I will bump this topic after doing the replacement.

Teach

[IAMICHABOD]

'tiredTeacher wrote:

IAMICHABOD wrote:
I installed the same one and it went smoothly,all the connections were the same as the old one. ...This thing is just a plug and play faucet,all the connections are the same as the original with out any extra fittings or adapters.

Working in such a small place that makes this a lot easier without all the hassel of getting all the fittings to fit and not leak.

Now that's what I wanted to hear. I'm all about connections being the same, especially since I'm a 3X dude squeezing into a small cabinet.
I think this is the route I'll go.

Thanks to all,
Teach

Hey Teach, let us know how it went on the install.

[Fixed_Sight_Tra]

I replaced the small bathroom faucet on our kitchen sink with this one.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chrome-Finish-Pull-Down-Kitchen-Spring-Sink-Mixer-Faucet-Tap-with-Hand-Sprayer-/251549051703?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a917deb37

The old one was too low to fill a water bottle or pan but this one works great. Good pressure on the sprayer, very convenient design and well made. Realistically speaking it has to work about 30 to 50 days a year. I don't need a $200 faucet.

[gotsmart]

This is my faucet upgrade. The black plastic aerator is for a PUR water filter:

[_tiredTeacher]

IAMICHABOD wrote:
I installed the same one and it went smoothly,all the connections were the same as the old one. ...This thing is just a plug and play faucet,all the connections are the same as the original with out any extra fittings or adapters.

Working in such a small place that makes this a lot easier without all the hassel of getting all the fittings to fit and not leak.

Now that's what I wanted to hear. I'm all about connections being the same, especially since I'm a 3X dude squeezing into a small cabinet.
I think this is the route I'll go.

Thanks to all,
Teach

[Almot]

'tiredTeacher wrote:
Plumbing is not my forte but I can do simple, straightforward stuff. DW wants a new kitchen faucet. I saw this in CW.
Has anyone installed one? How'd it go?

Why not? As long as there is enough space from the cabinet frame for that big washer or whatever is holding it to the counter underneath. You can install pretty much any faucet from big box store.

But you might have to add short supply lines and/or cut your existing PEX tubes, to connect it. Hopefully you won't have to cut - try bending/pushing those PEX tubes first.
If you have to cut PEX tube, you will need supply lines with female fitting on the supply end, and a pair of Sharkbite push-on fittings with male ends to connect to these female fittings. The fitting on the "faucet end" of supply line will depend on what is there on the faucet - most often faucets have female 1/2" nuts. Home Depot will have all this.

[2000_Kiwi]

I added one I got from Lowes... I wanted to add a side sprayer and single lever for temp control. It was a very simple job, the most difficult part was getting under the sink to remove the old one.

Faucet from Lowes

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[tenbear]

By all means buy a faucet at a hardware store or big box store. Make sure that the new shower will fit in the same holes as the old. You may need an adapter to connect to the plumbing.

I replaced our kitchen faucet (sorry, no pics) and I had to remove the sink to get access to the faucet, it is mounted in the counter behind the sink.

[Teacher_s_Pet]

Price Pfister is our faucet of choice, their life-time warranty is real. Just make sure you have your receipt or the model ID tag found on the supply lines. After 9 years fulltiming, had one of our OEM Pfister vanity faucets fail at a supply line entry point to the brass body. One photo of the ID tag in an e-mail and I had a new faucet with-in a week or so. When our second Tiffin OEM B&M kitchen sink faucet failed last year, it was replaced with a similar Pfister model for $50 less than Tiffin's parts department price for another B&M faucet.

[IAMICHABOD]

'tiredTeacher wrote:
Plumbing is not my forte but I can do simple, straightforward stuff. DW wants a new kitchen faucet. I saw this in CW.
Has anyone installed one? How'd it go?

Teach

I installed the same one and it went smoothly,all the connections were the same as the old one.and it is cheaper,at Amazon

I found that the ones from the HD and Lowes that everyone seems to like are not a good match,you have to do some adapting to get the plumbing to fit the connections that are in the RV. This thing is just a plug and play faucet,all the connections are the same as the original with out any extra fittings or adapters.

Working in such a small place that makes this a lot easier without all the hassel of getting all the fittings to fit and not leak.

[nomad297]

Matt_Colie wrote:
As for can you install it? You were a teacher, you must be literate. That gives you an advantage over those people that would do the job if you farmed it out.

Matt

Is that right? :R

Bruce

[Matt_Colie]

Our 40+yo coach is now on its third galley tap since we have owned it. It came to us with a bad one and parts were expensive and the replacement got damaged a couple of years back so, we are now on the third. If DW likes it, go for it.

As for can you install it? You were a teacher, you must be literate. That gives you an advantage over those people that would do the job if you farmed it out.

Matt

[nomad297]

GlennLever, I think, in your case, I would have put a sink hole cover in the old hole and drilled a new hole through the Corian -- if there was enough space for clearance underneath.

The last picture is very similar to what I find on last-minute Monday calls where my customer tried over the weekend, but couldn't do it, but usually there's parts for the new faucet all over the place. At least you accomplished the mission.

Bruce

[GlennLever]

I did mine awhile ago

Oh my gosh another plumbing project, you guys are going to think that these are my most favorite projects, It could not be further from the truth, plumbing is my lest favorite thing to do. Inevitability I have leaks.

The kitchen faucet has been needing attention, the white plastic was faded, the faucet did not turn smoothly, when you turned the water on water would run down the valve, and the valve was not centered.



So out it comes, I did not stop to take pictures of the plumbing mess under the sink, serfice it to say that every fitting available at Home Depot has been used and several different pipe materials.



So now we have a hole in the sink that needs to be filled.



So I go to read the instruction and the only instructions are some pictures, with no written instructions at all. As you can see this is a name brand manufacturer but I gues they think Americans cannot rear any more (Moen).



The first problem is the hole in the sink is to small to except the faucet.



So how to enlarge the hole, well time for some testosterone. I pulled out the die grinder and enlarged the hole.



It left a little bit of a ruff edge, but a file smoothed that out just fine and now a test fit.



I eliminated a number of redundant hoses and connections and clamped the pipes to the wall, it still looks messy, but much better than it did. (sure wish I had taken a before shot)



The hardest part of this project was getting my small body into this large space.



It works and amazingly there were no leaks.



So I must have crawled into this spot a 100 times and made a 100 trips to the tool box to get all the tools to do this job.



I can almost guarantee you that the next project will NOT be plumbing.

I hope this helps.