Sluggo
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I have a wall-mounted vanity faucet (Newport Brass) with lever handles in a powder room. It looks like this:
The normal closed position is with the handles horizontal. When you want water, you rotate them downward. I recently had to turn off the water at the meter to change out a valve elsewhere and opened a couple of taps to drain the system. While I was walking past the powder room on the way to turn the water back on, I heard water dribbling out of the faucet in the powder room. I thought this was odd since that was not a faucet I opened. The I noticed that the ends of the lever handles had rotated downwards about 15 degrees. When I went to put them in the closed position, they slowly rotated down again. I went outside and turned the water on to the house and came back to the powder room. I put the handles in the normally closed position and they stayed; and, when I opened them, there was a normal amount of gentle resistance to turning. These handles are 14 years old, but don't get heavy use. Is it normal for something to happen like this when there is no water pressure and you have the weight of a fairly substantial lever handle exerting downward force? If not, what, if anything, should I do about this?
The normal closed position is with the handles horizontal. When you want water, you rotate them downward. I recently had to turn off the water at the meter to change out a valve elsewhere and opened a couple of taps to drain the system. While I was walking past the powder room on the way to turn the water back on, I heard water dribbling out of the faucet in the powder room. I thought this was odd since that was not a faucet I opened. The I noticed that the ends of the lever handles had rotated downwards about 15 degrees. When I went to put them in the closed position, they slowly rotated down again. I went outside and turned the water on to the house and came back to the powder room. I put the handles in the normally closed position and they stayed; and, when I opened them, there was a normal amount of gentle resistance to turning. These handles are 14 years old, but don't get heavy use. Is it normal for something to happen like this when there is no water pressure and you have the weight of a fairly substantial lever handle exerting downward force? If not, what, if anything, should I do about this?