kelric
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I've had this slow, dripping leak in my bathroom faucet for... well, quite some time now, and I decided yesterday that I was going to be ambitious and repair it myself. Now, I've never done anything like this before, but... how hard can it be, right?
Multiple faucet-dismantlings, three trips to Lowe's and one to Home Depot later, I thought I had the part that I needed. Or, at least the guy at Home Depot told me that I did, even when I pointed out that the hole in the little gasket he was selling looked bigger than the one that my old part had... "Oh, that's just because your old one is worn - they get compressed inside the faucet." I was dubious but trusted him... it only cost three dollars, after all.
I went home, popped the little gasket into the faucet (which took more manhandling than I thought it should), reassembled everything, and turned the main water back on. Guess what? The faucet was no longer dripping.. it was running constantly. :steam: Home Depot guy.
This morning I decided that since I couldn't find any appropriate parts anywhere in town, and couldn't identify the model of my faucet, that I'd just try to get a new one and install it myself. Now if you're having visions of some sitcom-repair job, one of those ones where the would-be-repairman does something odd resulting in water spraying, pipes bursting, etc. - well, I hoped I could do better.
Sure enough, after about an hour and a half of poking around, disassembling the old one and hooking the new one up...
My first do-it-yourself home repair job successful
Multiple faucet-dismantlings, three trips to Lowe's and one to Home Depot later, I thought I had the part that I needed. Or, at least the guy at Home Depot told me that I did, even when I pointed out that the hole in the little gasket he was selling looked bigger than the one that my old part had... "Oh, that's just because your old one is worn - they get compressed inside the faucet." I was dubious but trusted him... it only cost three dollars, after all.
I went home, popped the little gasket into the faucet (which took more manhandling than I thought it should), reassembled everything, and turned the main water back on. Guess what? The faucet was no longer dripping.. it was running constantly. :steam: Home Depot guy.
This morning I decided that since I couldn't find any appropriate parts anywhere in town, and couldn't identify the model of my faucet, that I'd just try to get a new one and install it myself. Now if you're having visions of some sitcom-repair job, one of those ones where the would-be-repairman does something odd resulting in water spraying, pipes bursting, etc. - well, I hoped I could do better.
Sure enough, after about an hour and a half of poking around, disassembling the old one and hooking the new one up...
My first do-it-yourself home repair job successful
