When an old faucet continues to drip even after you’ve installed a new washer and replaced the valve seat, it’s time to replace it. Of course, you don’t have to wait until a faucet wears out; you ...

Old-style faucets, the ones with washers, were usually predictable. A busy bathroom sink faucet could be expected to work fine for about a year, then you’d starting noticing it took more and more ...

Most faucets being sold and installed these days are of washerless design. Washerless faucets tend to go longer between leaks than the old-style compression faucets, but they still can develop ...

It shouldn’t be necessary to turn off the water to the entire house to fix a leaky faucet, but that’s exactly what many homeowners must do. Why? Because they don’t have individual shut-off valves ...

Q: Ed, you help a lot of people and now I need some help with the seals on my kitchen sink. I have an older kitchen faucet, but it still works fine. The problem is with the seals and gaskets between ...

Find your faucet (tap) There are four kinds of faucets: compression, cartridge (sleeve), ceramic disk, and ball type. A compression faucet relies on rubber washers to seal the valve seat. Rubber ...

IN a climate as humid and rainy as Cambodia's, no one wants more water to deal with because of faulty plumbing. Here are some simple repairs you can make to alleviate a leaky faucet. The first thing ...