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I finally got around to replacing my kitchen faucet and it turned into a three hour flood fight.
The old one had a slow drip for months. I watched a video, got a new Moen from the store, and thought it would be simple. The shutoff valves under the sink were totally stuck. I tried to turn them with a wrench and the whole stem on the cold side snapped off. Water shot straight up to the ceiling. I had to run to the street to find the main shutoff, which was buried under mud. My kitchen floor got soaked. After I got the water off and cleaned up, the actual install took maybe twenty minutes. Has anyone else had a simple job go this wrong because of old plumbing?
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aaron7406d ago
That's the story of every old house project right there. It's never the new part that's the problem, it's the fifty years of rust and neglect you have to fight through first. I swear, the simpler the job looks on YouTube, the more the house itself is going to fight back. You start with a faucet and end up replacing shutoff valves and mopping the ceiling.
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xena_bailey186d ago
Tell me you replaced those broken shutoff valves too. That old compression fitting style is a time bomb. Bet you never want to see another wrench under that sink.
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