Repairing Faulty/Leaking RV Kitchen Faucet Parts

You remodeled your kitchen from standard to modular with all new and shining kitchen accessories. In order to make your kitchen look more appealing and modern you decided to put in a new kitchen faucet. But to your horror, the faucet has started to leak in the matter of months and threatens to put all the money you spent in remodeling the kitchen down the drain. You can rectify the fault and stop it from messing the kitchen only if you know the way out.

Get Familiar with the Working of Kitchen Faucet

Before you learn about how to repair the kitchen faucet, you must understand the working mechanism of a kitchen faucet. Also, learn about the different types of kitchen faucets – cartridge, compression, disc and ball – to know what type of faucet you have to repair. While disc and ball type of faucets consist of a single handle control, the compression type has dual handles one for each hot and cold water.

Why did it leak?

The answer to this why is really important. You cannot start rectifying a fault unless you know the reason as to why it occurred. So before you undertake the repair work try to know about the root cause of the problem. RV kitchen faucet parts like worn out washer, O rings, and seals are generally the culprit. Also the presence of sediments in the inlet valve, or obsolete inlet and outlet seals might have resulted in a leaky faucet.

Now it’s Time to Fix It

These simple steps might help you put an end to this leaky problem:

• Ensure the taps are turned off, and then loosen the screws from the base to remove the faucet.
• While removing the parts place them in an order so that you remember which ones to put where later on.
• Tape the area that shows signs of leak, like cracks.
• In case you find any part of faucet damaged like the ball valve, or worn out springs and seals; it is advisable to get it replaced with rv kitchen faucet repair parts.
• Remove all traces of sediments in the inlet valve or other inner parts.
• All set, time to put it back in order.

If the kitchen faucet gets back to its leaky ways, better to replace the complete set rather than fixing it again.

Don’t think it was that tough, or was it? It will take time to learn the procedure, but it isn’t as hard as it made out to be.