Installing Faucet - No Brainer?
My husband, a not-so-handy architect, thinks we need to have our not-so-competent handyman install our new kitchen faucet. Isn’t it pretty simple? Can’t anybody (like me) do it?
My husband, a not-so-handy architect, thinks we need to have our not-so-competent handyman install our new kitchen faucet. Isn’t it pretty simple? Can’t anybody (like me) do it?
Minard, you might think it’s ‘dangerous’ to do electrical work, but the majority of it is straightforward common-sensical stuff which anyone could do. What’s difficult is knowing what you shouldn’t do, or need special expertise for. Same for plumbing.
Take if from someone who has had a LOT of bad experiences with do it yourself plumbing projects–GET SOMEONE COMPETENT TO DO IT!! The biggest problem with plumbing, I have found, is in the unloosening of things that have not been loosened in long time, like shut off handles that crack off in your hand (refer to the great toilet debacle of 2001!), supply tubes that instead of coming off, crack instead, shooting water all over the bathroom, etc. The point is that if you don’t really know what you’re doing, particularly if the stuff hasn’t been worked on in a while, you can create more problems that will cost even more money than the original thing would have cost!
Gingerbrownie, my dear, it’s a snap. Just google a YouTube video on changing a faucet, you’ll be all ready to go.
On a Dyson with diamond earrings inside.
I bet you’d “get a lot more” if you splurged on a Dyson.
dibs LOL!
I can see you’re not married.
Getting my wife a wrench for Christmas would be right up there with getting her a pressure cooker. I understand some women appreciate practical gifts, but most would be tempted to use them as a murder weapon.
DIBS,
I was thinking of a new dirt devil vacuum as the xmas gift, but heck, yeah I could throw in the basin wrench as a stocking stuffer.
“Installing a new faucet is a snap for someone with practice and tools.”
My point exactly. Get a couple of tools and go practice. Assuming, as Tybur6 points out, the shutoffs are in place and not so old that turning them off might cause a break. If that’s the case, go get a plumber.
Bklnite, a basin wrench would make a nice Christmas present for your wife. All of you men should get one for your wives. Makes a perfect stocking stuffer. 🙂