How do you install a new kitchen sink faucet?

Question

My kitchen sink currently has a hot & a cold knob, and a spout...pretty old fashioned. I want to go and get an up to date faucet with a single lever valve and a detachable spout to rinse dishes, etc. but have never installed one before. What do I do?

Answer 1

Spirit gives you a great answer. I'd just like to add my two cents. This equates to some labor, but might save you some knuckle crunching.

If possible do all the suggested up to shutting off the water and disconnecting the flex tubing to the faucet base, where it connects at the valve. Keep in mind, This is my own opinion and not what others might suggest.

I very often remove the entire sink, when possible, flip it over, allowing me easy access to any hardware that holds the faucet in place. With the faucet detached, and if you feel it neccesary to match the faucet "Foot Print"; take the faucet with you when purchasing another.

Once you've done that and are at the work site again, attach the faucet to the sink, add NEW flex tubing and all NEW hardware supplied, including new compression washers for the down drain, then set the sink back and attach it or clamp it, in whatever way it was to begin with. Reconnect the flex tubing fittings, turn on the water taps, then the faucet taps and proceed.

Certainly you can spend more time on your back, perhaps even with a specific, swivel plumbing wrench, designed for tight places. I just offered MY way, and I'm usually off that kind of job in half the time I'd otherwise be cussing while trying to hold a flashlight in my mouth, stripping the hardware with lock jaw pliers, and ending with a headache.

Steven Wolf

Answer 2

You will receive instructions with the faucet.
First turn off the hot water and cold water. Turn on the faucets to drain out the excess water in the pipes and to make sure the water turned off.
Take apart the faucet under the sink so you will need a small pipe wrench or pliers.
Bring the faucet with you or trace it on paper to make sure the sizes of everything are ok.
When you purchase the new faucet check out the size of the hose so you can purchase a hole maker through your countertop or metal sink for the extra spout.
Should take about an hour and you'll be done.
Since you are doing all that work you may as well take off the nut on the bottom of the U shaped pipe to clean that too. Make sure you place a bucket or something there first because there will be a little bit of dirty water.
Good luck.

Answer 3

if the faucet will turn and permit water to realize the 13" component i could midsection it on the sixteen" component this is maximum possibly the place your disposal is? is the midsection divider below the precise of the sink? if so this permits the water to spill over to the 13" component.

Answer 4

If you need to ask, you need to call someone to do it for you.