HOW TO
- Examine the locknuts under your faucet and try to tighten them by hand.
- If hand-tightening doesn’t work, use your pliers or basin wrench to tighten the nuts under the faucet until they’re snug. Do not force a plastic nut because you might crack it!
- If the nuts have bottomed out, add a couple of rubber washers to the nut—this will add more depth to allow the nut to grab against the sink and pull down the faucet. To do so, first shut off the water at the shut-off valves, unscrew the supply lines with tongue-and-groove pliers, and then unscrew the nuts. Now you can add a couple of rubber washers inside the nuts.
- Screw everything back into place, being careful not to over-tighten a plastic nut.
A basin wrench is a specialized plumbing tool that I highly recommend owning. It makes easy work of loosening and tightening fittings when there is limited space or access to reach a nut or hose coupling underneath a basin or lavatory. Without one, something as simple as loosening a faucet nut can be next to impossible to accomplish—certainly not without a lot of cursing and sweating!
How To Tighten a Loose Faucet Part 1
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