On Feb 12, 3:58�pm, "TH" wrote:
On Feb 4, 8:36 pm, wrote:





I've spent 2 days this weekend without water because of a delta
faucet.

After about 8 hrs of trying to repair the faucet myself, I've got a
plumber coming Monday.
Its virtually impossible for a layman to replace the springs and seats
on a delta faucet.
The faucet is of such poor quality that they wont seat properly
without leaking unless a professioanl plumber does it at $65/hr.

The delta website provides little in the way of help. *I found a half
dozen other websites that provided more info on how to repair a faucet
then delta does.

My house is barely 5 yrs old. *No reason I should have a leaky faucet
except for the poor quality of delta faucets. *Customer support has
been non existent so far. *You don't want to go through what I am now.
Spend the extra money and buy a quality faucet. *Delta repair products
are cheap, the problem is the $65/hr plumbers charge and only a
plumber will be able to seat such cheap spring seat propertly without
leaking.

Did you use a Delta kit? I repaired my kitchen faucet once with a non
Delta kit and it still leaked. Had to do it over with a Delta kit. Not
too hard, takes about 15 minutes.

In my last house of ~ 20 years. I had two different brand of Kitchen
faucets.
American Standard and a Delta. Each seemed to need to be rebuilt about
every 3- 5 years. *I think it depends on how hard the kids are on
turning it on and off.

Other than that I did have a problem where the nozzle button quit
working.
I called Delta to try to buy a new replacement, and they send me a new
nozzle, hose and rebuild kit free of charge. No questions asked.
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Most plumbers will ONLY replace faucet if it needs anything more than
a washer.

I use only deltas, although I heard quality dropped when they moved
production overseas, but have no confirmation of that.

So whats the offending faucet doing? Single or two handle? Get plumber
to install shutoff valves thru home avoids BIG hassles later, install
ONLY BALL VALVES as shut offs!!!!