30’s era Kohler pedestal sink faucet replacement

[Betsy chandler]

We have a vintage pedestal sink with original faucet in great condition. The faucet has about 2 inches of clearance from the wall of the basin so washing your hands or any functionality is limited. Went to replace it and my bf was having a difficult time getting anything off. After fully removing the basin from the pedestal, it seemed like the faucets etc wouldn’t come off without being cut out. It was all one piece. Does anyone have experience with this? Are we on the right assumption that the basin and faucet hardware were sold together and not removable?

 

[James Henry]

Post a picture of the top and underneath of the sink. I would love to see this.

 

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[Betsy chandler]

Post a picture of the top and underneath of the sink. I would love to see this.

He’s already reassembled it but you can see from the second picture, where I’ve marked, there is a notch where the faucet hardware goes from underneath. This combined with the fact that the three pieces are attached by a small pipe, you are unable to loosen or turn from underneath at all. He thought about using a large monkey wrench to try and loosen from the top but didn’t want to destroy it. Any ideas?

 

[James Henry]

I've removed many of these faucets, unfortunately I've had to cut most of them out because of all the rust. your's looks pretty good.
remove the handles and escutcheons, then remove the large nuts holding the faucet to the sink. If you can do that your half way there.
next, loosen the nut under the sink that holds the spout and try to unscrew the spout. if you can do that then the whole faucet should drop out of the sink.

 

[hj]

First, remove the two supply lines, then remove the pop up rod from the spout, finally unscrew the nut on the end of the spout which frees the tee. Then remove the handles and trim from the valves and remove the lock nuts which are underneath them. The whole underneath part can then be reomved. The last step is to remove the nut holding the spout to the sink Since everything is brass it should all come apart fairly easily. The "notch' is immaterial and has no bearing on removing the faucet.