Replace a Kitchen Faucet

About This Guide

The kitchen sink has more in it than you think.

Replacing a bathroom faucet is simple: two supply lines, one drain, one pop-up. Replacing a kitchen faucet is a different animal. Under the sink you'll find: two supply lines, a garbage disposal, a dishwasher drain hose, a drain with a second bowl's tailpiece entering it, maybe a hot-water dispenser, maybe a water filter, and a sprayer hose that needs to route back up through the faucet.

The faucet itself bolts on in fifteen minutes. What takes the afternoon is working around everything else.

This book walks the full job:

• ✓ Identifying your sink configuration and what's in the cabinet.
• ✓ Removing the old faucet and handling the mounting nut that's
• ✓ always seized.
• ✓ Installing pull-down, pull-out, and traditional faucets — with
• ✓ and without side sprayers.
• ✓ Routing the pull-down hose through the faucet body and the
• ✓ weighted counterweight.
• ✓ Connecting supply lines around the disposal and filter.
• ✓ Testing — aerator flush, pull-down retract, hot/cold flow.

Written for the homeowner who wants to finish in one Saturday and not discover a leak on Sunday morning.