today i'm going to show you how to replacea 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 theseunscrew, some of them don't. if it does, that makes it a lot easier. i also got my new supplylines. this is 3/8" x 1/2 ". get this thing out. these are compression fittings; littlebit better than what's in here already. i'll bring you down here and show you. it's gotthese old-style supply lines which are pretty prone to breaking and such. they can justgo 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'llopen the faucet up top and just make sure
that there's no water coming out, looks likenot, so we're good there. what i have here is a basin wrench, a pretty handy tool forgetting underneath here. you can flip it one way to tighten it and the other way to loosenit, whichever you need. it just allows you a little bit of a reach to get up in the areasthat can be difficult. some of these old styles, the nice thing about them is they pretty muchjust 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 somewater 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 easiestangle to get in there [inaudible: 02:25].
if you have a paint tray or something thatyou 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 recordingfor you. again, it's going to drip some water out wheni pull this off; the water that's trapped in the supply line. then this portion of thesupply line down here at the angle stop, i can just take off with my leatherman. that'llcreate 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. samewith the other side; loosen that up. again, there's going to be some water trapped inthere, so just try to angle it onto my rag.
then we got a little more of the . . . andthat's up top. this is an old plastic faucet, and in a way, they're nice in that how itcomes apart. it's pretty easy. some of the other faucets have a small, little, tiny neckand 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'llrun into some where they're really tough, where you've got to use the basin wrench prettymuch all the way. this one went pretty good. i'm going to take you up top. pull the faucetoff 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 downa 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 gettingrefinished; will be a multi-spec treatment on it. it's tired, so i don't really haveto worry about it. if you weren't going to be doing anything, cultured marble is thesame material all the way through so you can actually sand it down, and then they sella clear coat-type deal that you can put over it or polish. that's another story. to keep this from leaking, what you're goingto want to do is add a little plumber's putty.
that plumber's putty has gotten a little dryso i'll mix a little water into it so that it'll work better. plumber's putty; just wantto break off a bit, and i'm going to get a little water in my hand because it's a littledry. then just rub it like play-doh; make a circle with it. what we're going to do iswrap it around each of our holes, just a thin amount all the way around to make this good.you could just flatten it down a bit because the faucet itself is going to squeeze andflatten it down. there we go along here. i like to do it separately around each hole,that way if you do have a leak from the faucet, you can determine more which hole it's comingout of, can more indicate whether it's from a neck or whether it's from one of the cartridges,and then isolate the hot side from the cold
side; just isolate in each area so that inthe future if you get a leak, you'll be able to . . . it'll be easier for you to determinewhere your leak is coming from. pushing this all down. let's get some more. i probably should get the new plumber's putty;this is a little bit too dry but it'll still work for our purposes. it's been in the potshop for a whole summer out here so it's just surviving, nut it's going to work. again,just flattening all of this down. plumber's putty just acts as a seal between two differentmaterials; it doesn't dry and it doesn't shrink, it just stays there. keeps water from goingdown those areas. we'll actually want to move . . . put it across all the sides also sothat we've got each area isolated now. you
want to put it across here also, that wayif you splash some water on the counter, it doesn't go down inside there. we're just blockingit and sealing any water out. once we install our faucet, it's going to squeeze it downas we put the nuts on and compress it against the plumber's putty, which is going to actas a gasket; the thing that keeps the water from going down there if there's any splashedon the counter. as we tighten our faucet down, then we'll remove any excess. our new faucet, it's got a pop-up pull. wehave to remove that little piece to gain access to the pop-up pull. i guess some faucets don'thave a pop- up, but that why it comes with this part up here. just pull the plug out.right there, the little plug was in there,
and we just pulled that out. then go aheadand insert your faucet over and feed your pop-up rod through the back. you may haveto lift it up a little bit from inside, and then we can re attach the screw nuts. threadthis on. there we go. i'll bring you down here [inaudible: 11:38] tighten this thingdown. i'm going to just thread them. i'm just holding the faucet steady with my left handas i tighten this with my right hand. [inaudible: 11:59]. the nice thing about these is it's mostly justhand-tightened. there are some times where you need to tighten it down with your basinwrench. you just want to be careful not to
snap the wings off of these plastic nuts,which is pretty easy to do. the other thing is you want to be careful not to strip these.they're plastic, if you strip them, you're [inaudible: 12:30]. maybe you can reuse theold one from the old faucet anyway. we're just going to tighten this up real good. asyou can see up here, it's starting to squeeze the plumber's putty out, so we just want tokeep tightening it down until the faucet seems really good. let me get my basin wrench and set to tighten.let me show you using the basin wrench. what you do is just clip this around one of thewings which is easier sometimes said than done. there's not much room in there. i mayhave to turn this a bit more with my hand
just to get it in there. clip one end aroundthe wing, and now you can turn it. sorry about that. again, just tightening these up. asyou can see, it was pretty loose. we'll come back over to the other side and do the samething. tight quarters. this is where the basin wrench just comes in nice and handy. it'snice to be able to reach up there. some of them actually have an extension on this endso you can get a lot longer reach if you needed to. this seems to work out pretty good forme. there's some nuts where you'll have to hold this backside with the teeth on a littlebit with one finger, but it's still a good tool. it allows you to get in there whereyou need to get. good, nice and tight. next is the supply lines. i showed you earlier,1/2 " x 3/8" on this particular setup. again,
making sure we're not going to cross-threadthese. it's a lot easier to attach it at the faucet first. this is where the basin wrench,again, you may have to hold it with your finger so that it grabs it. sometimes you can . . . sometimesit'll grab it on its own, but other times it'll slip a little bit. then you have tojust use your other finger a little bit to hold it in there better. nice, tight quartersmake it a little tricky. come on, buddy. i think we're okay on that side. that's thehot side; the right side for the cold side. same thing; as good as i can with my handfirst, and then use the basin wrench to tighten up the rest. these you just want them 1/4-turn past tight, and then we'll leak test it after, once we get them all nice and tight.you want to avoid squeezing these portions;
otherwise this'll start leaking from here.now to the angle stops. there are some situations i've seen whereit was plumbed backwards, where hot was on the right side instead of being on the leftside. if that was the case, you could cross your lines over here to fix that. for ours,this one's right. cold on the right like it should be, and hot-s on the left like it shouldbe. again, being careful and make sure these aren't cross threaded, and then just tightenthese down with pliers; same thing, avoiding squeezing up here, as well as making surewe're just 1/4 -turn past tight. you want to keep going while it's loose, and then whenit gets nice and tight resistance, we'll go just 1/4 -turn past tight. that's the rightamount of force; 1/4 -past tight. these compression
fittings are a little more forgiving, butwhen it comes to a copper fitting, [inaudible: 19:36] 1/4 -turn past tight. these compression fittings, you don't needany teflon tape. [inaudible: 20:07] good. you don't want any cross threads or anything;want it to be nice and straight just like it should be. 1/4 -turn past tight and we'regood. we're going to turn on our water. when you turn the water on, you want to haveyour lines open because there's going to be some air in the supply lines, and we wantthat to bleed out. then just slowly turn on each line, and of course, you're going tolisten for any leaks as well; listen and feel for any leaks. open your line, and then thecold side, same thing. that was a little faster
than i would've liked but there we go. i'llcome back and clean up this excess plumber's putty. we're going to field test now for any leaks.i'm going to take my gloves off, and then at each of the fittings just feel around forany moisture here, here, here, and then up top at the supply lines. we're all nice anddry. that's good. coming back up top, we're going to want to turn our water off. thenthis excess plumber's putty, you can just take a flat-edge screwdriver and just go aroundthe edge and remove all of the excess putty so that it's nice and clean. this stuff isgnarly in that if you happen to catch it with a rag by accident and then you go to cleansomething else, you're going to wind up rubbing
this stuff into whatever else it is that you'recleaning. you don't really want that. we're going to remove all the excess. unplug ourdrain. we're all set. nice new, brand new faucet and a nice new pop-up.