Kitchen Faucet Replacement
Services offered in: Tri-Cities, Vancouver Core, The North Shore, and The Fraser Valley
Every kitchen faucet has a last day. Maybe yours announced it with a leak from the body that no cartridge will cure, or a finish shedding flakes into the dishwater, or a handle that finally sheared off in someone’s hand.
What We Do
- We start with an honest repair-or-replace verdict.
- We help you choose before we arrive, if you want the help.
- We test and, when needed, replace the shutoffs.
- We remove the old faucet without collateral damage.
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Kitchen Faucet Replacement
Every kitchen faucet has a last day. Maybe yours announced it with a leak from the body that no cartridge will cure, or a finish shedding flakes into the dishwater, or a handle that finally sheared off in someone’s hand. Maybe nothing broke at all and you are simply done fighting a low, fixed spout that can’t clear a stock pot. This page is about the swap: taking out a faucet that has finished its service and putting a better one in its place, on the same sink, without turning a one-visit job into a renovation.
Replacement sounds like the simplest job we do, and the new faucet itself usually is. What separates a professional replacement from a frustrating Saturday is everything around the faucet: shutoff valves that haven’t turned since the house was built, a corroded mounting nut fused to the underside of a stainless sink, supply lines older than the faucet they feed, and a deck hole pattern that doesn’t match the new fixture. We treat replacement as a small system refresh. The faucet, its supply lines, and its shutoffs all get renewed together, because the faucet is only as reliable as the twenty-year-old parts you leave connected to it.
What a Replacement Actually Involves
The visible work is quick: disconnect, unbolt, lift out, drop in, tighten, connect. The real job hides in five details.
The shutoffs decide everything. Before any wrench touches the faucet, the two little valves under the sink have to close, fully and without drama. In older kitchens they often don’t; original multi-turn valves seize open, weep at the stem when finally exercised, or shear. A proper replacement starts by testing them and, when they fail the test, replacing them with quarter-turn ball valves while the water is already off. It adds minutes and removes the single most common cause of mid-job floods.
The old faucet rarely leaves politely. Mounting nuts live in the dampest, least accessible spot in the kitchen and corrode accordingly. Plastic nuts get brittle; brass ones fuse to steel studs. Getting them off without gouging the sink or flexing the countertop is where the specialty tools and the patience earn their keep.
Hole count is a compatibility problem. Sinks and countertops come drilled with one to four holes. A modern single-handle pull-down wants one; your old two-handle faucet with a side sprayer used three or four. Deck plates cover extra holes, soap dispensers or air gaps can occupy them, and going the other direction, more holes than the sink has, means drilling stainless or stone, which is a decision to make before purchase, not after.
Supply lines are not reusable. The braided connectors that fed the old faucet have been under pressure for years and their rubber cores age whether or not they look tired. New faucet, new lines, every time. It’s a few dollars of insurance against the most preventable flood in the house.
The first hour under pressure tells the truth. Every joint gets checked hot and cold, the sprayer gets run through every mode, and the cabinet floor gets a dry-towel test before we call it done, because a replacement that weeps is worse than the faucet it replaced.
What Happens If You Wait Too Long
A faucet at the end of its life fails in one of two directions, and only one of them is polite. The polite version is a worsening drip that costs you water and patience until you schedule the swap. The other version is sudden: a corroded body lets go, a brittle plastic nut cracks, or a supply connection weeps overnight, and the failure happens under pressure with nobody standing there. Kitchen cabinets, hardwood floors, and the suite below a condo kitchen are all downstream of that moment. Waiting also narrows your choices; a faucet replaced on its own schedule is chosen calmly, matched to the sink, and installed in one visit, while a faucet replaced in a panic is whatever can be gotten fastest. The cheapest and best-chosen replacement is always the one booked before the failure, not after it.
The most common regret in faucet replacement isn’t quality; it’s geometry. A tall gooseneck over a shallow single-bowl sink turns the water’s landing into a splash zone. A short spout over a deep double-bowl can’t reach the far basin. Before buying, measure three things: the depth of your sink bowl, the distance from the faucet hole to the centre of the bowl, and the height of any shelf or window ledge behind the sink. Match spout reach to bowl centre, keep very tall arcs for deeper bowls, and confirm the handle can swing without hitting the backsplash. Five minutes with a tape measure prevents the one flaw in a faucet that no plumber can adjust afterward.
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Service details
- Tri-Cities
- Vancouver Core
- North Shore
- Fraser Valley
Spot the signs
Signs Replacement Is Coming
- A leak from the faucet body itself. Pinholes in the casting, water seeping from under the finish, or a crack at the spout base. No serviceable part fixes a failed body.
- A finish that is flaking, pitting, or shedding. Cosmetic at first, then sharp-edged and unsanitary. Once the plating lifts, the base metal corrodes quickly.
- A second or third repair on the same low-grade faucet. When repairs recur, the math flips; the next cartridge and service call cost a real fraction of a better fixture installed.
- Parts that no longer exist. Off-brand and discontinued faucets eventually orphan their cartridges. A faucet without parts is a countdown, not a fixture.
- Function that no longer fits the kitchen. No sprayer, a spout too low for your pots, a single sink where a tall arc splashes everything. The faucet works; it just works against you.
- Seized or weeping shutoffs discovered during any other job. If the valves have to be replaced anyway, a tired faucet’s replacement gets dramatically cheaper to bundle.
- A drip returning weeks after a proper cartridge repair. That means the valve seat inside the body is pitted. The faucet is telling you it’s done.
- Cartridges that keep wearing out ahead of schedule. In hillside areas and other zones where municipal pressure may run higher than typical, internal faucet parts can wear faster than the manufacturer’s estimates. A pressure reading during the replacement visit will show whether a pressure reducing valve would protect the new faucet and every other fixture in the house.
Job steps
What The Crazy Plumber Does
- We start with an honest repair-or-replace verdict. If your faucet deserves a cartridge instead of a coffin, we say so; our repair service exists because we mean it. Replacement gets recommended when the body, finish, parts availability, or repair history genuinely points there.
- We help you choose before we arrive, if you want the help. Hole count, sink depth, spout reach and height, sprayer style, and finish, matched to how your kitchen actually gets used. Supply the faucet yourself or have us bring a professional-grade unit; either way we confirm fit before wrenches come out.
- We test and, when needed, replace the shutoffs. Quarter-turn ball valves go in whenever the originals fail the test, so the next person under this sink, including future you, can shut the water off in one second. In homes built from the late 1970s through the mid 1990s, we may also find grey Poly B supply piping arriving at the kitchen sink. When that happens, we document it and explain what it means, because a faucet replacement is the cheapest possible way to start that conversation early. Our Poly B Pipe Plumber category covers where that road leads.
- We remove the old faucet without collateral damage. The right basin wrench, the right penetrating approach on corroded nuts, and protection for the sink and countertop throughout.
- We install the new faucet completely. New braided supply lines, mounting torqued to spec so the faucet never wanders on its deck, the sprayer weight positioned to clear everything under the sink, and the aerator flushed of debris before final assembly.
- We verify under pressure and leave it clean. Hot and cold at full flow, every sprayer mode, a firm shutoff, a dry-towel test of the cabinet floor, and your old faucet taken away unless you want it.
Before you book
Questions homeowners ask
Yes, and homeowners do it all the time. Bring us the model number or a photo of the box before the visit and we’ll confirm it matches your sink’s hole count and depth. What we ask in return is the honest caveat: we warranty our workmanship fully, but the fixture’s own warranty runs through wherever you bought it. When we supply the faucet, you get one phone number for everything.
Most swaps run one to two hours. The variables are almost never the new faucet; they’re the old one. Seized shutoffs that need replacing, corroded mounting nuts, and hole-count mismatches add time. We quote after seeing what’s actually under the sink, and the quote is the price.
A ceramic cartridge from a brand that will still sell you one in fifteen years, a metal body rather than plated plastic, a finish warranty the maker stands behind, and a sprayer hose assembly sold as a replacement part. Beyond that, you’re paying for style and features, which is a fair thing to pay for, just know which dollars buy longevity and which buy looks.
No. Most single-handle faucets include or offer a deck plate that covers a standard three-hole spread. The extra holes can also host a soap dispenser or a filtered-water tap. Going the other way, a faucet needing more holes than your sink has, means drilling, which we can do in stainless and can arrange for stone, but it’s a pre-purchase conversation.
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