Service
Faucet Repair
Repair and replacement of dripping, leaking, low-pressure and stiff kitchen, bathroom, tub, shower and outdoor faucets, including cartridge and valve work.
- Licensed and insured
- Price agreed before work
- A plumber who works your area
Faucets and valves are the most used plumbing in a home and the most likely to need attention. A drip seems trivial until you add up the water, and a slow leak under a sink can ruin a cabinet before anyone opens the door. Our faucet repair service connects you with a licensed local plumber who carries the cartridges, seats and seals for the fixtures common in your area and can fix or replace them in a single visit.
What fails in a faucet
Every faucet controls water with a moving seal, whether that is a rubber washer against a brass seat, a ball with springs and seats, a cartridge, or a pair of ceramic discs. Those seals wear, and minerals in the water accelerate the wear. Aerators at the spout clog with scale and sediment, reducing flow. Supply lines and shutoff valves under the sink harden with age and eventually leak or refuse to close. Shower valves lose their ability to hold temperature as the balancing cartridge wears.
Repair done right
The right repair starts with identifying the faucet and its mechanism, then replacing the part that failed with one made for that fixture. Universal parts and quick fixes tend to fail again within months. The plumber also cleans or replaces the aerator, checks the shutoffs and supply lines, and looks for corrosion at the base that would signal the fixture is near the end of its life.
Replacing fixtures
When a faucet is corroded, discontinued or has failed repeatedly, replacement is the sensible choice. The plumber installs the new fixture with new supply lines and shutoff valves, seals it to the sink or wall, and tests it under pressure. For showers, a modern pressure-balancing valve can often be installed through the existing opening without disturbing tile.
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Problems this service solves
- Dripping faucets from worn cartridges, washers, seats or O-rings
- Leaks under the sink at supply connections, shutoff valves and sprayer hoses
- Low flow from clogged aerators, scale in the cartridge or a failing valve
- Shower and tub valves that will not hold temperature or leak behind the wall
- Handles that are stiff, loose or spin without effect
- Outdoor hose bibs that leak, will not shut off or froze over winter
- Corroded or discolored fixtures in hard-water areas
Signs you need faucet repair
If more than one of these is true, the problem is usually past the point a plunger or a store-bought cleaner will fix.
- A steady drip from the spout with the handle fully closed
- Water in the cabinet under a sink, or a musty smell there
- Pressure that is fine elsewhere but weak at one fixture
- Shower temperature that swings when another fixture is used
- Mineral crust around the spout or handle base
- A hose bib that drips from the stem when the hose is on
What to expect
How the visit works
Identify the faucet type and the failing part
Compression, ball, cartridge and ceramic disc faucets each fail differently. The plumber identifies the make and mechanism so the correct cartridge, seat or seal is used.
Repair with the right parts
Worn parts are replaced, seats are cleaned or resurfaced, aerators and cartridges are descaled, and supply lines and shutoffs under the sink are checked and replaced if brittle.
Address the water behind the problem
Where scale is the cause, the plumber explains what your local water is doing to fixtures and what protects them, from aerator cleaning to a softener.
Replace when the fixture is done
A faucet with a corroded body, a discontinued cartridge or repeated failures is replaced with a quality fixture, installed with new supply lines and tested.
What's included
What you get on every job, whoever we send.
- A drip stopped before it wastes hundreds of gallons a month
- Cabinet and floor damage from under-sink leaks avoided
- Shower valve repairs done through the trim, without opening tile where possible
- Parts matched to the fixture so the repair lasts
Questions
Faucet Repair questions
Is a dripping faucet worth calling a plumber about?
A drip of one per second wastes over a thousand gallons a year, and a worn seat or cartridge only gets worse. It is a small job for a plumber, and if you are already having other work done it can usually be added to the same visit. Leaving it also risks water damage if the leak moves to the base of the fixture or under the sink.
Why is my water pressure low at just one faucet?
If pressure is fine elsewhere, the problem is in that fixture. The aerator at the spout tip is the usual culprit, clogged with scale or debris. Cartridges and supply lines to that fixture can also be restricted. In hard-water regions this is one of the most common service calls and is quick to fix.
My shower gets scalding when someone flushes. Can that be fixed?
Yes. A pressure-balancing or thermostatic shower valve holds temperature steady when pressure changes elsewhere in the house. If your valve is an older type, or a balancing cartridge has worn, replacing the cartridge or the valve solves it. Many modern valves are required by code precisely for this reason.
Should I repair or replace my faucet?
Repair is worthwhile when parts are available and the body is sound. Replacement is the better choice when the finish is corroded through, when the cartridge is discontinued, or when a low-quality fixture has failed more than once. A plumber will give you both prices.
Why does my outdoor spigot leak?
Hose bibs leak from the stem packing when the handle is opened, or from the seat when closed. Both are repairable. If the spigot froze over winter and split inside the wall, it will leak inside the house when opened in spring, which needs prompt replacement with a frost-proof model.
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