Simple plumbing advice needed
 

I need some advice on kitchen sink type faucets.

24 years ago when we moved in to our house the kitchen sink faucet was a joke. I strongly suspect the previous owners had some high end faucet in the kitchen, and they went to the Wal Mart discount bin and bought the cheapest likely returned faucet to put in place of their good one. It is a crappy faucet, and my wife wanted it gone ASAP. It got moved to the laundry room which had a really short faucet bathroom style, builders grade faucet in it.

Now 24 years later, it is leaking slowly onto the floor of the cabinet in the laundry room.

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My wife uses it to bath the dogs (dachshunds) and never uses the sprayer. She wants a new faucet.

Happy wife = happy life.

Now to the question, are all modern faucets the same "foot print"? Are the holes to hold the faucet down and the center hole pretty much the same size? I know we can get a plug for the hole for the sprayer. She likely wanted a taller faucet, and maybe one the center of the faucet pulls out if a sprayer is needed. Maybe we can put a soap dispenser in the hole for the current sprayer.

It is not very high flow, a gallon takes 40 seconds. Many of the faucets show at 1.5 gallon per minute and a faster flow rate would be better, but likely really hard to find due to government standards.

So can we pick out a nicer faucet made in the current standards that will bolt right up?

I ask mostly because my old bachelor pad house was built in the 1950s and nothing at all, ever, was the same as what was on the market. The bathtub had two knobs about 18 inches apart. They only fix was to remove the entire faucet and have it rebuilt. Same for the kitchen sink that had a lead pipe going to the drain. Nothing was ever simple on that house.

over the past 20, maybe 30 years, the kitchen sink faucets I've replaced come with a rectangular filler plate to cover the existing holes, yes, the old holes are standardized before most sink manufacturers went to the one-hole layout.

I'm sure there are exceptions, and the next 20 or 30 posters will point out their unique situation, but yours looks like what I've encountered in the past few decades.

Most faucets are pretty standard, but there are multiple standards. Measure the distances of the holes center to center of the stuff that you've got. Then go to the website for someplace like Home Depot or Lowes to check measurements on the stuff that they sell. You should be able to pretty easily confirm if your faucet meets the most popular standard or not.

Yes, they're standard. Some are 4 inch and some are 8 inch spreads. Yours looks like an 8 inch.

The 4 " spread is common bath vanity and 8 " is common kitchen .

Expect that the water hook-up will need a couple adaptors.

ONLY lasted 24 years, not bad, don't expect your new one to be trouble free after six years. There are some that require a larger centre hole, I think 1 1/2" diameter is the largest. With most it is possible to change the max flow.

I am sure it will be fun to get the old one out, and the new one in.

I can hardly wait! :rolleyes:

You’ll be terribly disappointed with your options at Home Depot and Lowe’s, bunch of overpriced plastic junk. Hopefully your supply line shut offs are ok and don’t start leaking when you close them.

All widespread kitchen faucets have the same C to C. A single hole faucet can be used with a accessory or included deckplate to hide the outboard holes. Personally I would stay away from a HD or Lowes faucet. All manufacturers make a cheaper faucet for the big box stores. Higher end faucets come with integral long supply lines that should go onto the existing stops.

We love the Delta touch faucet I installed last year. It comes in very handy when cooking or holding a grandchild. Honestly, the photo does not show the removal to be too bad. The plastic locknuts are BS but you could always cut the faucet out by going between the sink and faucet with a sawzall.

Good luck.

I can’t imagine bathing a dog in the sink and not using the sprayer.

My wife does it, and she prefers not to use a sprayer. Don't ask my why. I agree, the sprayer makes sense. Woman's logic???