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Preparing to Remodel a Kitchen Sink
How the Kitchen Plumbing Works
Installing Kitchen Sink Plumbing
How to Install Kitchen Sink Supply Lines onto Faucet Valves
Securing a Kitchen Sink into the Counter
How to Check if your Kitchen Sink is Installed Correctly
Reinforcing a Kitchen Counter to Hold a Heavy Sink
Installing Kitchen Sink Hoses
How to Install a Kitchen Sink Faucet
How to Caulk a Kitchen Sink
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Summary: Get tips on installing a kitchen sink faucet as part of your home remodeling or kitchen renovation project, in this free DIY home improvement video.
Lee Wallace has a degree in architecture from Texas A&M University. He has been in construction for almost 10 years, and is currently remodeling several townhomes.read more
"We’ve applied the ajax to the sink itself, and it’s been dry a little while, so you just want to wipe it off. You’re going to have little spots on it, probably from old plumbers putty. You just want to scrape those off. Make sure you just get them all off. It’s going to leave marks but that’s fine. It won’t after it’s cleaned again. You then want to take the plumbers putty, which just comes in a little can and then roll it into a bead and apply it around the gasket itself. It can break, that’s fine, as long as it overlaps some. Once you get that done, all the way around the entire thing, you’re going to apply it to the sink itself. Just set it on there like that, take the faucet, which has already been pre-assembled, make sure it pops into the plastic gasket, and then just hold it in place. Once you have the faucet through the sink, you take the little plastic nuts and you just fiddle with them a little bit and screw them on. You’ll have rust on the bottom of the sink too, but that’s why you use the plumbers putty. You tighten these down by hand, then you tighten them down with a pair of pliers. You don’t want to break them, they are plastic. And that’s how you would install a faucet on a vintage sink."
eHow Article: How to Install a Kitchen Sink Faucet
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tomcom1 said
on 8/2/2008 Thanks for the instruction. I was wondering if I can use this kind of built in sink.. http://brandfaucet-kitchen.info