Installing a Kitchen Faucet

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Tim Gipson, I'm going to talk to you about how to install a kitchen faucet. Now, we have a single point faucet here, and on your faucet, it's going to be labeled. The one with the tag is going to be the hot water, this is the cold water, and then this one with special attachment is for your spray attachment. Now, this particular one has the spray attachment that is actually part of the neck of the faucet, which is what you'll see typically in a single mount. So, what we do is we put the, feed the spray faucet hose down in to the hole first, which we've already done, and then we will maneuver the rest of this down with the plate, and we'll feed that down. Now, this plate actually just has a rubber gasket that seals it to the sink, so once that's in place, then we can go under the sink. And we're going to have a rubber washer that you'll see, a metal washer that goes over that, and then a retaining nut that goes over the neck, and we will tighten that securely. And then it has a set screw to hold it in place, and to keep it from loosening it up. Now, the first thing we do is we get this rubber washer up in there, and get it seated up around the neck, and it should have a little bit of a friction to it so it'll hold it in place. And then we want to bring the silver washer up, and we're going to have to hold that with one hand while we bring the lock washer up. And the lock washer actually has some grooves that will help you fit it around these fittings. And again, it's just something you've got to kind of work around and be patient with. Then we attach our hot water, and the hot water will be tagged on your faucet. And we want to make sure that we hold the pipe, either with a wrench, or this slip joint plier works good, and then we want to snug it up. Now, on the cold water, we've actually got a compression fitting. And this one, you want to hold it, and this one you just want to hand tight, you don't want to use a wrench on that one. And so, once we've got everything in place, now we can go back and open up the hot water first, and then we want to check, make sure we don't have any leaks, and then we can open up our cold water, and check and make sure we don't have any leaks, and then come back up to our faucet, turn it on. It might have a little air that will come out, nothing to be concerned about. And, make sure we've got hot water, which we do, make sure we've got cold water, which we do, and we are good to go. So, I'm Tim Gipson, and that's how to install a kitchen faucet."