Housework is always a lot and knowing how to do it yourself is always useful. It will save you a lot of resources and a lot of time. Today in this short guide we will deal with how to assemble a faucet for your sink. A simple but difficult job, especially if you don’t have the right equipment at your disposal.
Tools for installing a faucet
Our situation is the following: we have an old faucet in our sink and we want to change it. To do this, as a first step, we choose the new tap, on our store you can find something for all tastes.
Once this is done, make sure you have the following tools:
Parrot key
Socket wrench
Phillips screwdriver
Few tools that will be indispensable to proceed.
Remove the old sink faucet
To proceed with the work you must take care to turn off the water through the special tap. This will avoid flooding your bathroom during disassembly. Convenient isn’t it?
Once this is done you have to proceed to let the residual water out of the tap. So open it and let it flow, when the water stops the hoses will be empty and we can proceed.
Retrieve your parrot wrench and unscrew the two flexible hoses that connect the tap to the hot water and cold water connections.
At this point, if your tap is equipped with a pop-up waste, use the cross screwdriver to disconnect the plug rod.
Now the tricky part of the guide. Take the socket wrench and carefully proceed to unscrew the nut that holds the old tap that you want to remove together with a ring nut.
How to assemble a sink faucet
Once you have removed the nut and the ring nut, all you need to do is remove the old tap with its flexible hoses.
At this point, assembling the new tap will be quite simple, just follow the previous instructions, but in reverse.
Re-tighten the ring nut and nut that hold the sink tap. Reconnect the rod for the cap, checking the height for a correct closure and finally connect the water hoses as well. Be careful not to reverse the hot and cold water hoses.
Now turn on the water again and check that everything is working at its best.