Faucets for the Dummy DIY Plumber

The inside of a kitchen faucet might look like this

When it comes to DIY plumbing projects, the first one most people tackle after realizing that they don't have dorm maintenance or an apartment super to do it for them is that leaky faucet. Truth be told, the more clueless just leave it dripping until they move out, but sometimes they google a solution just in case it can be fixed with what's in their toolbox: a cordless drill, pliers, and a couple of screwdrivers. That must be how the query, "How to take Apart a Franke Faucet" made it into HomeSteady.com. Let's hope the OQ got a better answer than the one dished up by Andrea Walk.

No one here at the AN has ever installed, removed, or repaired a Franke faucet, but there's plenty of experience with other brands. Our assumption, borne out by all that experience, is that the OQ had a dripping faucet and wanted to know how to repair the leak. Walk, on the other hand, had a different view. According to Andrea, taking apart your Franke faucet entails,

1. "...shut off the water valves."
2. "Use the adjustable wrench to loosen and remove the side sprayer hose... [and] remove it from the sink top..."
3. "Adjust the wrench to fit the brass bolts on the hot and cold water lines on the main faucet connection, turning them to the left to disconnect them..."
4. "Slide a putty knife under the base of the main faucet to work it loose from the sink."
5. "Use a pair of pliers to remove the small pin from the faucet top and then remove the top cap of the faucet. Use an adjustable wrench to remove the rest of the faucet top assembly."

Yup: that's it. To take apart your Franke faucet, you remove it from the sink; at least according to this PolySci grad. What's truly distressing is that the idiot cited the installation instruction sheet for a Franke faucet that pretty clearly shows a nut and washer that must be removed to loosen the faucet from the deck... as opposed to simply prying it off with "a putty knife."
No, dear Dumbass of the Day, you don't remove a faucet to "take it apart" (and your instructions wouldn't work, anyway). Instead, you disassemble the faucet and replace the cartridge, washers, or whatever else is leaking – the precise method differs from model to model.

But you wouldn't know that, would you, Andrea...

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