Yes, I know the title is a stretch for a pun, but you have to imagine it with a high society British accent and it gets closer.
After I removed the old faucet and the sink was installed the next day, it was time for the new faucet.
We decided to go with this AquaSource faucet in polished chrome:
One requirement was that it was fairly inexpensive since we didn’t want to spend a whole lot on it. Even bigger than that, though, was that it had enough room between the water stream and the back of the sink. You know those faucets that don’t stick out very far and are so close that you can’t hardly wash your hands without rubbing all over the back of the sink? Yeah, not a fan. So we wanted to make sure to avoid that. Yes, we measured the existing ones and then measured the displays at Lowe’s to make sure it stuck farther out.
The faucet installation was pretty easy. The parts included were the faucet itself and the plastic nuts that go under the sink to hold it in place:
I had to get some piping and other parts to complete the installation:
There are different options for the water supply piping, but I chose to go with the plastic tubing rather than the braided stainless steel mainly because of cost.
After attaching the faucet to the sink and making sure it was straight, I attached the piping to the faucet with some more plastic nuts (sold separately). You can see the white nuts in this pic:
Since it was a little long, I trimmed it off rather than try to wrestle it into position.
The connection to the supply valves used another compression fitting like I talked about when installing the valves. And all done:
So now we had a working faucet once again. Only problem was we didn’t have a working drain. That installation was a little more complicated since the drain in the sink was farther out from the wall than the last one. Somehow I didn’t get any pictures, but to fix the problem I had to add a coupling and some more pipe to bring the drain farther out.
So here’s our shiny new faucet installed:
We actually left the protective plastic on the sink since we still had to texture and paint the walls, but finally got that done and the sink cleaned off. More pictures on that later.
Do you have a pet peeve (like the faucet being too close to the back) about bathroom sinks?
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