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How to repairing a faucet
Not only can dripping faucets be annoying, but they can also be
expensive.
Fortunately, your faucet can be rather easily repaired.
Faucets were designed to draw water from a pipe. Faucets in your house
use simple valves that that control the flow of water. Several types of
valves can be used in household faucets: compression valves (sometimes
called stern and seat), disk, ball and cartridge are the most common.
Your outdoor faucets use a type of compression valve, or a long stem
compression design, called a freezeless sillcock.
Different configurations of levers ad
handles can be used to open and close the valves. Some may have a
different look.
Hot and cold water supply lines, which feed faucets from below, have
shut off valves in the lines that can be turned off while working on a
faucet.
Before beginning a repair, you will need to determine what kind of valve
is inside your faucet. First, identify the brand, and if possible, the
model. After determining the brand, you can either write the information
down or just take the faucet with you to the hardware store or plumbing
supply store.
If you had the forethought to keep the
manual when the faucets was installed, you will have the brand, model
and perhaps even some information about the parts needed available to
you to aid in your search for the parts needed to make the repair.
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