Bathroom Faucet Installation with Randy from R Squared Renovations

Randy from http://www.UniqueVanities.com demonstrates the simple steps involved in bathroom faucet installation. This video is ideal for the Do It Yourselfer (DIY). This is one of a series of videos to help home owners with their bathroom remodel project. If you would prefer to hire a Bathroom Remodel Expert, give him a call at 972-998-8544. Dallas, TX. Enjoy!

Transcription: Hello this is Randy with R squared Renovations. I’m a general contractor in Dallas, Texas. We’ve finishing off a small bathroom remodel. I’m going to show you how to install a faucet into a vanity top while we have it off the vanity. This is the easiest time to do it. This is one whole faucet, it also comes with a bottom plate if you were to have a vanity top with three holes and a 4 inch center, you could put this on to cover the holes and still use this faucet.

This faucet has a popup drain mounted in the back, we’re just gonna slide that down into the hole. Because it’s a little hard to see I’m going to show you before we install it. This has two threaded rods that will thread up inside the bottom of the faucet. We have a rubber washer and a brass washer. We’ll put this in the hole and then add these.

This will slide up in here. and then tighten these rod couplings and that will clamp the faucet in here to hold it tight on the top of the vanity.

While we’ve got it off we’ll also install the popup drain. The popup drain will go together similar to the faucet. It has a metal flange that threads in here. You can take it off and set it a side for now. This has a thick rubber washer here, then a dull round washer and nut here that tightens this to the bottom of the sink.

What’s we will do is take a little bit of plumbers putty and put it around here. and we’re gonna set that in the sink and center it. From underneath we’ll thread this back on until it’s tight and then with a pair of channel locks we’ll go underneath and tighten this nut so that this gasket will seal the bottom of the sink.

This particular sink has an over flow up here which inside this bowl comes out down here. Thats why this is made the way it is. There is actually a hole here so if you overfill the bowl it goes down this hole and ends up back in the drain where it’s supposed to go.

Now that’s I’ve got this fully assembled you can a see what it’s supposed to look like. Here’s the rubber washer that we’ve tightened down against the bottom of the sink. Pulls the top of the drain down to the bottom of the sink. This is the popup mechanisms. There is a ball inside here with another washer, just snug that up and it operates the popup drain. it’s adjustable here. According to how much movement you have under here and how high up you want it to go up and down. The nut here attaches to the popup on the backside of the faucet and thats essentially how that works.

Here’s this one. The popup mechanisms back here behind it.

Now it would ready to be sat on top of the vanity. It has a couple of holes in the back of the porcelain here so we can fasten this to the wall. Normally we’d be using toggle bolts into the sheet rock. Here we put some blocking into the wall before hand, so we’ll be running some screws with some big washers on there. Again not real tight just enough to hold it firm against the wall. Normally a vanity top would be fastened down to the top of the vanity. Here we’re fastening the top of the vanity to the wall and then the vanity cabinet will be fastened to the wall separately.