For over a year the faucet in one of our bathrooms has been dripping. Initially, we could stop it by turning the handle a certain way. Recently, however, the turning trick stopped doing the trick. So, I knew it was time to change this thing. Here's the piece-o-crap faucet:
Never liked this thing, ever since installing it about 11 years ago. It worked well for about a month, then started getting stiff. It also started corroding. Then dripping. Moen just sucks. I installed a Moen kitchen faucet that was terrible. I didn't want to repair the thing; just wanted to replace it. Here's the drain that's going with it:
I had installed an American Standard faucet in another bathroom several years ago, and it works well, so I bought one for this bathroom several months ago. Just never got around to installing it 'til now.
First, I had to get under the sink to remove the old faucet. Check out this drain, clearly some leaking going on here:
Removing the faucet involves first removing some nuts. They were a little difficult to get off due to corrosion, but that's pretty normal from my experience.
I really like the way American Standard designed this faucet. They use these large threaded brass pipes that are secured with plastic nuts. Very easy to put on, and corrosion won't be a problem.
Once the faucet was installed, I installed the drain, which was pretty straightforward. the mechanism for the pop-up stopper was interesting. I've never seen one like this, but it works very well.
And here's the brand new faucet! Woohoo!
And a shot of the drain:
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