How to Install a Bathroom Faucet

hey kids it's great to see you again today I'm going to walk you through how to replace a bathroom faucet this is actually the new faucet so this is the finished version I'm going to walk you through how to pull out the old one and put in a new one if you've never done that before uh today's video is sponsored by easy fix I mentioned easy fix in a previous video they're an excellent resource if you need help on most of your home projects you can virtually connect with an easy fix Pro that will help guide you through your home repair project it's really easy to to connect with them I'll show you how it works a little bit later in this video but first I have a dad joke for you so I heard a faucet knocking on my door let that sink in ah so anyway let's get started okay so I went ahead and removed my doors here just to give you a completely clear shot of what I'm doing here I would recommend you get a bucket like this this is a rectangle or a square the nice thing about it is you can put it all the way up against the back and that's why I'm I'm using this particular one I can catch any water that might fall so the first thing you want to start with is turning off your water these are your hot and cold water here right so we just want to turn those off so that's off and that's off okay so that's the first thing we wanted to do is connect this and look it's things are mostly just hand tight here so you you won't really need too much to you won't need the wrench too much so we're just going to get that off some water's going to come out of here okay we want to so we're just going to loosen that one too we'll just drop this down to get this out of the way see here we can go ahead and remove that cuz we actually have a we have a new a new spout here we're going to have a new one of these all right do you see that right there that's connecting your the plug okay cuz when this flips up like that it closes the sink right it closes the stopper up above okay so let's disconnect that we'll just pull it off of here like [Music] this okay so that's that and then we'll just disconnect that see that's really going in there because it's connecting with that stopper okay looks like it's got a little bit rust so okay so now that's not stopping that so let's go ahead and remove this guy now [Music] okay so we're just disconnecting that you can see there's some plumbers putty left over from when this was done last time that's the stopper from up above see that that's the stopper so we'll pull that up okay so that's all disconnected now okay we already cut the water off but there's still going to be some water in these lines right up to the faucet so a little water is going to come down once we detach those but we need to detach those up here okay do you see that now those are your two water lines where they're connected I just need to unscrew that okay and my arm might get in the way but I want to make sure you know what I'm doing here okay so I'm just going to make get on there and loosen that up cuz I just need to loosen it a little bit so I can get it off there there again there's going to be some water that's going to come out okay so let's get them both a little bit loose okay okay I'm going to put my bucket back and reach up underneath there okay we're going to do the same thing here now we just need to disconnect the the old faucet and it has just a something just a hand crank here you can p do you see that make sure you can see [Music] that Hardon my arm but can't really do it any other way I'm going to loosen one all right so it just looks like that all right so that's that's that need to do the other [Music] one okay I can feel this the faucet moving around up above because it's been set free okay so we still have this guy on right so we're just going to take that and remove move it okay and all that was was this just pinched right and then we slid it out okay that's how that worked okay see that nut right there we're going to have to loosen that so we just need to try to get to it I'm sure it won't take much to loosen it there you go okay so that's right now it'll come out the top you can see a little bit of the plumber's putty that was underneath there okay and then now you can see this is and that'll slide right through now see it doesn't have that other piece connected to it so all we got to do now is just clean everything up we want to get this all nice and clean so that when we put in the new faucet it'll uh it'll look nice and plus you won't have this Gunk underneath here so I'm going to go ahead and clean that up quick remember if you're in the middle of your project and you're struggling and you don't know what to do next um you can easily connect with easy fix simple as going to their website and then you can see right here the first thing you can talk with a pro right away if you need to or you can get a little closer to the problem and describe your problem connect to chat receive an assessment and then if you keep scrolling on down here you can narrow down what's going on if you're working on an appliance Plumbing flooring your exterior interior heating or cooling or electrical or then you can just talk with a pro pretty easy okay so we got it all cleaned up and we're ready to go there's a little this coloration here I'm not going to be able to get that completely clean but it's clean right there's no debris okay and then this you got to put this gasket on first that's the first thing you do and it actually dummy proofs it for you on this particular one it says top and front so there we go top and front it's just going to sit like that all right so now we got our faucet and we're just going to go ahead and put it right down inside there we need to uh connect it from the other side so you just want to make sure it's seated good on top of that gasket right that it's not wonky right it's you can tell when it's seated properly okay so now we just need to attach these just like we did just how we removed it now we're putting it right back on with this new faucet all right so I'm just going to try to reach around so you can see better so all I'm doing is just putting that on there okay there we go we're close we don't want to overly tighten it until we get both of them on and then we kind of go back and forth to make sure that it's seated properly okay let kind to get it a little bit snug and then I'm going to go back to the other one make sure it's a little snug okay I can tighten it a little bit more this one here I'll tighten it okay so that's all you need to do you don't need a wrench for this this will come should come with your new faucet and uh so this is the mechanism that goes in here that allows your your uh stopper to to move up up and down right so so when we install this I just wanted you to see this from down below or from up above before we put it in down below because uh what's going to happen here is you're going to have uh the thing from up above that you pull up and push down that's going to be connected to this which will allow this to open up and close for you okay thought I'd just show you that from while we got it and it's all nice and clean and I I'll probably try to show you from underneath too but I thought i' just uh show you a much cleaner view from up above okay now it's where we need our plumers putty and what we're going to do is we're just going to detach this top here from here okay this top part is going to be up above in our sink and we need that okay cuz that's going to sit in our sink right that we've cleaned right we cleaned our sink okay so now we're going to take our plumers putty our plumers putty okay and you just roll it between your fingers and get it out to a decent amount right we don't want to go too little but we don't need to go too much you don't want to have it be too much but when this squeezes down in there you want it good enough to where it squeezes in it actually comes out the top and then you just clean it from the top okay so we're just going to we're going to get ourselves a something like that and then we're just going to wrap this this around here okay we're going to wrap it around here okay okay so something like that right again that might be a little too much that's okay cuz we're going to uh we'll scrape it off from the top you just want it to fill in any of those gaps there so something like that okay now we just put this down here right it's just going to go there and like I said it'll uh it'll squeeze out the top especially once you tighten it okay cuz now from down below low we're going to tighten this back up into that all right so now we're down underneath and you want to make sure that you got some space here right so when this thing came from the from the manufacturer it was up here this washer and it wouldn't have been able to reach so we had to pull that back okay and then now we're just I can up top I'm just going to put it through here and up top I can see it okay so I'm just kind of holding it while I'm twisting okay so that's that's pretty solid like like that and then I want I actually want this to be in the back like that okay I need that I need this particular thing in the back cuz that's going to connect with our with this right so that we can open and close that stopper okay so now we can tighten this up all right so I just wanted you to see this see that plumbers putty how it oozed out of there you just take that and scrape it off okay so now we're going to attach this to our plunger from up above and I'm going to go ahead and give myself plenty of room I can see see this and this these need to be able to line up I'm going to have to pick a hole okay so let's get it up there pretty good and then now I got to tighten it and I'm going to use a wrench to tighten it too right see I'm trying to get my arm out of the way but you got to be able to see that nut right there I'm going to go ahead and tighten it so that's good we're going to attach this down below and it's going to go into here to allow that to lift up that's what that looks like okay so when we put this in we want to make sure it's facing backwards okay you don't want to put it in you don't want to put it in like that you want to make sure that that thing is towards the back the hole right not this way but this way okay so we're facing that that way okay so now we're going to take this piece here okay and we're going to put it into here for now we don't have to connect it to that other thing yet but you want the ball facing in okay okay that looks good okay so now you need to decide which hole you're going to put it in and so I've decided that I'm going to put it in this hole the second one from the bottom okay because when I'm up above I can see that when I pull up it closes when I push down it opens okay so that's where I want to put it right here okay so now you got to slide this clamp on this gets a little bit tricky but you can do it so um first thing you want to do is you want to remove that and then you slide one of these on on on this side okay and then we're going to put it through that hole okay so this is how this is supposed to attach I finally had to just turn off the camera so that I could get up underneath here and do this but so you have to put this piece on first and then you have to slide that on and then you have to put that on and then you just slide it over see now we can we can adjust it by pinching that okay but now it's on there good all right so mine came out good here where I ended up putting it but remember that you have this nut up here right that you can adjust this if this doesn't come out right for you where this is good for me you can adjust that right just with that nut up there and just loosen it and tighten it to make it make it uh line up for you better all right so I'm going to go ahead and connect my water lines okay it's right up there I'm just going to hand tighten it first cuz you want to make sure that they're they're on they're good okay and then now I can go ahead and tighten them the rest of the way okay okay I think we're we're solid I'm going to Snug those other things up to make sure that it's not moving up above all all right so we got our new spout here we're just going to kind of reverse what we did before you need to put this piece up here first and then this is a a washer okay that'll go up on there like that okay and then now we got our threads so we need to put our threads up here and then we can tighten that guy down okay like that and then that's there to connect to here so we'll go ahead and put that here and tighten that down close right we don't want to tighten it all the way until we make sure that we got things lined up okay there we go all right so everything's lined up I can cinch it up even more now okay that one goes that way this one goes here that tightens up there that tightens up there okay I think I think we're golden okay so I'm going to put my I'm going to put my bucket underneath my trusty bucket and I'm going to go ahead and turn the water on here always a little scary all right so this is one of the things I liked about this particular faucet is being able to move that back and forth and then here we go things are things are working properly okay and then let's take a look at our flood there's our flug it's a little tight on this particular uh sink but we're good so that is working properly okay I'm sure we've all had the experience of reading through all of the instructions and still aren't quite clear what to do next if you still need help with this project or another Home Project you can reach out to Easy Fix You just go to easy fix right and connect with a pro so that they can help you with it I hope this was helpful for you thanks for watching