Watson524
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Hi all,
I'm a DIYer but I consider myself in the above average of handy category. An older friend of mine had a 2 handle kitchen faucet that was constantly dripping and the same in her bathroom faucet. She asked if I could help her out and said that she had someone in the past (several years ago) replace the seats and springs and he told her cartridges would be next. I told her generally if it's leaking out the faucet it's the seats and springs and it's only the cartridge when it's coming out under the handles but she wanted to start fresh. I replaced cartridges, seats and springs in all 4 handles. Bathroom has had no issue (tho you could tell things were old when they came out), things came out, new things went in, no more dripping. Kitchen is a different story.
Replaced cartridges and seats/springs and all was fine, no more dripping. Cold has been fine since (about 6 weeks). About 3 weeks after initial replacement, the hot side started REALLY dripping again. I went down and took it apart and the seat on the hot side had a grove in the top of it. Thinking I didn't have something seated right, I replaced that seat again. Was good for about 3 weeks, no issues at all, all of a sudden starts dripping bad again tonite. I haven't seen it live yet but I'm going to suspect the same thing. Any idea what the heck could be going wrong? She does have somewhat hard water and when I initial did the cartridges I had to clean out some scale to get the spring to go down on its own without being forced down and get the seat to sit flat on it etc. I suspected maybe a spec of calcium got in there and grooved the new seat but that's just a guess on my part.
Since I'm assuming I'm going to find the same groove in the top of the seat where it contacts the cartridge, any ideas what would cause this or how to fix it? Faulty cartridge or something possibly?
thanks in advance!
I'm a DIYer but I consider myself in the above average of handy category. An older friend of mine had a 2 handle kitchen faucet that was constantly dripping and the same in her bathroom faucet. She asked if I could help her out and said that she had someone in the past (several years ago) replace the seats and springs and he told her cartridges would be next. I told her generally if it's leaking out the faucet it's the seats and springs and it's only the cartridge when it's coming out under the handles but she wanted to start fresh. I replaced cartridges, seats and springs in all 4 handles. Bathroom has had no issue (tho you could tell things were old when they came out), things came out, new things went in, no more dripping. Kitchen is a different story.
Replaced cartridges and seats/springs and all was fine, no more dripping. Cold has been fine since (about 6 weeks). About 3 weeks after initial replacement, the hot side started REALLY dripping again. I went down and took it apart and the seat on the hot side had a grove in the top of it. Thinking I didn't have something seated right, I replaced that seat again. Was good for about 3 weeks, no issues at all, all of a sudden starts dripping bad again tonite. I haven't seen it live yet but I'm going to suspect the same thing. Any idea what the heck could be going wrong? She does have somewhat hard water and when I initial did the cartridges I had to clean out some scale to get the spring to go down on its own without being forced down and get the seat to sit flat on it etc. I suspected maybe a spec of calcium got in there and grooved the new seat but that's just a guess on my part.
Since I'm assuming I'm going to find the same groove in the top of the seat where it contacts the cartridge, any ideas what would cause this or how to fix it? Faulty cartridge or something possibly?
thanks in advance!