Replacing OEM sink faucet set

You can install any common residential faucet you find at Home Depot, etc. The plumbing is the same. They will probably be better quality too.
I changed out both the bath and kitchen faucets the first week we owned out TT.

Good luck finding parts when that one starts to drip, get stiff or the hose leaks.

Buy a real faucet like KOHLER or Moen from a plumbing supply house or online, anywhere except Lowe's or Home Depot.

Bruce

Big box store. Buy a decent quality residential faucet that DW likes. A bit of plumbers putty and a few tools and you will have a good faucet that will work for years.

nomad297 wrote:
Good luck finding parts when that one starts to drip, get stiff or the hose leaks.

Buy a real faucet like KOHLER or Moen from a plumbing supply house or online, anywhere except Lowe's or Home Depot.

Bruce

When we renovated our kitchen, we looked at a Kohler faucet at a plumbing supply house. Found the EXACT same faucet, same EXACT model number, etc. in Home Depot for 2/3 the price. Went back to the supply house who admitted it was the same thing but wouldn't match or come close to the price. Say what you want about the big box stores but I'm not about to spend a significant amount of money more just to avoid them.

jfkmk wrote:

nomad297 wrote:
Good luck finding parts when that one starts to drip, get stiff or the hose leaks.

Buy a real faucet like KOHLER or Moen from a plumbing supply house or online, anywhere except Lowe's or Home Depot.

Bruce

When we renovated our kitchen, we looked at a Kohler faucet at a plumbing supply house. Found the EXACT same faucet, same EXACT model number, etc. in Home Depot for 2/3 the price. Went back to the supply house who admitted it was the same thing but wouldn't match or come close to the price. Say what you want about the big box stores but I'm not about to spend a significant amount of money more just to avoid them.

It's a gamble.

Bruce

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.

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

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

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

'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.