If you’re like most men, if there is a problem with your kitchen or bathroom faucet, you just dive right in without much preparation and without consulting the manual. It’s like asking for directions – men don’t do that:)
Kitchen or bathroom faucet assembly diagram - Make sure you line up the parts as you dismantle the faucet to ensure easy re-assembly.
However, here are a few faucet repair tips to consider before taking apart the faucet in your house.
- Before you start working on a faucet, turn off the water at the fixture shutoff valves. Then open the faucet to make sure the pipes are drained completely.
- Wrap the claws of the wrench with electrical tape so you don’t gouge up the visible parts of the fixture while you perform the faucet repair.
- Before you begin any faucet repair, block or plug up the sink so the small parts can’t fall down the drain.
- Line the sink with a towel to prevent damage from parts and tools unintentionally dropped.
- As you take apart the faucet, soak difficult connections with oil.
- As you disassemble the faucet, line up the pieces in the order you remove them in order to more easily put the pieces back together.