Repair the Faucet by Yourself

Kitchen faucet repair, you better need to know how to do, so you can repair at the time while you get break or leaked faucet. A break or leaked faucet will impact so much to your kitchen. Since there are no water supply or, water comes out due to its leakage. Without any water supply you can’t clean your dishes or cook. When the faucet leaks, you will lost the water and possible to plunge you with high cost of water.

Tools for repair and parts of faucet

To repair the faucet, commonly you need some tools; there are pliers, wrench and screwdriver. The tools will used for dismantle the faucet. And then, you need to know the parts of faucet itself. Usually faucet consists of handle, cap, faucet spout, cam, ball, faucet body, seals or gaskets or o-ring, and some nuts or screws. You will know when you dismantling the faucet and the position. You need to remember that.

How to repair the faucet

Faucet at your kitchen usually gets trouble due to leakage. Some leakage come out from the handle gap, or the faucet seems enclosed even we close full the handle. So you need to dismantle each parts or faucet to know the trouble. It is possible due to the seal gasket or o-ring was expands, thus you need to change it with the new one. The leakage is also possible due to the ball inside was enlightened. You can only tight the screw of the ball and reset up the faucet after that.

This kitchen faucet repair is for your knowledge and prevent whether you get it. You will no need to ask another people help, or invite a handyman or others. You can do it by yourselves and save your money. Anyway, you also need to know the kind of faucet for your reference. Commonly, faucet has 4 kind, they are ball faucet, disc faucet, cartridge faucet and compression faucet. Ball faucet is the most common to use. It has simple system which uses a ball to set the water flow, the ball will turn holes side when opened and let the water flow. Disc faucet usually use for different temperature water. It will manage hot and cold water flow. The disc will shift to close one of the lines and open the other line.

Cartridge faucet has same system with ball faucet, but the difference is cartridge faucet has bullion that move up and down to manage the water flow. Compression faucet is the oldest system for faucet. Since it has two handle to flow different water temperature, it is not like disc faucet. Hope the reference possible to help you to do kitchen faucet repair.