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Summary: When fixing a leaky faucet, the first thing to do is shut off the water and check the stem and stem lock washer. Fix a leaky faucet with tips from a carpenter in this free video on home repairs.
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"Hello again, this is Oscar Moreno with Moreno Custom Home Visions. Today we'll be teaching you how to repair a leaky faucet. Some of the tools you are going to need to repair a leaky faucet is going to be your regular screw driver, Phillips preferably, also, you're going to need a six inch crescent wrench, and as well you're going to need, in some applications, an eight or a ten inch crescent wrench. It all depends on the faucet that you have at home. And on this application, you're going to do, first things first, is we're going to shut off the water, and the water is located right under the sink, and there are shut off valves. All you have to do to make sure those are nice and tight, tighten them clockwise, make sure they're shut off. You can give them a real simple test by opening and closing the handles. If you have no water it's safe to proceed. First things first, then is to remove the plastic cap on top of the handle which is covering a screw that holds the handle in place. After doing so, you're going to find your stem and your stem lock washer, you can easily remove that by using your six or your eight inch crescent wrench. After you've done so, you can pull out your stem, you can observe it, look at it to make sure there's no seals broken and make sure there's no trash, little stuff that you can find inside there which can cause the leak. But once you determine that and you see the stem well is actually old and needs to be replace, make sure you take that to a local hardware store, match it up, bring it back home. All you really have to do is reinsert the stem back into place, putting your lock washer back on, put your handle and your screw in your cap, and you've fixed your very own faucet handle."
eHow Article: How to Repair a Leaky Faucet
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