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How To Replace A Tired Bathroom Faucet by Kung Fu Maintenance

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Time for a little change. How to replace a bathroom faucet. Buy The Kung Fu Maintenance E Book Here http://www.amazon.com/Kung-Fu-Maintenance-ebook/dp/B007KQFI3Q/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid;=1379045417&sr;=8-1&keywords;=Kung+Fu+Maintenance http://KungFuMaintenance.Com http://Blog.KungFuMaintenance.Com http://Arcade.KungFuMaintenance.Com http://VGBlog.KungFuMaintenance.Com http://TheMaintenanceEar.KungFuMaintenance.Com Twitter ~ KungFuMainTen@twitter.com Today I'm going to show you how to replace a faucet. I've got my new faucet ready to go in. Those are the nuts that go on the bottom. I'm going to reuse the existing pop-out so I'm just going to unscrew these. Some of these unscrew, some of them don't. If it does, that makes it a lot easier. I also got my new supply lines. This is 3/8" x 1/2 ". Get this thing out. These are compression fittings; little bit better than what's in here already. I'll bring you down here and show you. It's got these old-style supply lines which are pretty prone to breaking and such. They can just go on you one day in the middle of the night. They are pretty common and they do work. Go ahead and turn off my water. Then I'll open the faucet up top and just make sure that there's no water coming out, Looks like not, so we're good there. What I have here is a basin wrench, a pretty handy tool for getting underneath here. You can flip it one way to tighten it and the other way to loosen it, whichever you need. It just allows you a little bit of a reach to get up in the areas that can be difficult. Some of these old styles, the nice thing about them is they pretty much just can be hand-loosened, that's why I don't even need to use the basin wrench. Loosen up supply lines; there's going to some water there that'll drop out. Same on the other side; going to loosen it up real good. Sorry, not the most interesting thing to look at. That one's pretty tight. Not the easiest angle to get in there [inaudible: 02:25]. If you have a paint tray or something that you can put down below, that'll minimize the amount of cleanup that you have to do later. I just got a rag, so I'm just going to use that. Let's see; make sure it's recording for you. Again, it's going to drip some water out when I pull this off; the water that's trapped in the supply line. Then this portion of the supply line down here at the angle stop, I can just take off with my Leatherman. That'll create tension. Again, there's going to be a bunch of water trapped in this supply line. I'll just angle it onto my rag, or if you had a paint tray down there or a can. Same with the other side; loosen that up. Again, there's going to be some water trapped in there, so just try to angle it onto my rag. Then we got a little more of the . . . and that's up top. This is an old plastic faucet, and in a way, they're nice in that how it comes apart. It's pretty easy. Some of the other faucets have a small, little, tiny neck and it's a little trickier; you have to use your basin wrench on those and that's awkward. These wing nuts are nice and big, it's easy to get a hold of. This one is rather a tiny bit tougher. You'll run into some where they're really tough, where you've got to use the basin wrench pretty much all the way. This one went pretty good. I'm going to take you up top. Pull the faucet off already, but anyway, it just pulled right up from the seat where it was and off. We want to clean up this area a little bit. Take your rag . . . if you have some sand paper, it's a good idea to sand this down a little bit because sometimes the profile of the new faucet is a little bit smaller. I may have to come back later with [inaudible: 06:10]. Also, this counter top may be getting refinished; will be a multi-spec treatment on it. It's tired, so I don't really have to worry about it. If you weren't going to be doing anything, cultured marble is the same material all the way through so you can actually sand it down, and then they sell a clear coat-type deal that you can put over it or polish. That's another story.