First things first, if we want to get a new faucet installed, we’ve got to remove the old faucet.  This is a very simple, but at times frustrating task if you have deep cabinet.  Well, let me rephrase that. It can be a frustrating task if the person who installed the last faucet had kung-fu grip and felt that it was important to over tighten connections.  If that’s the case, I feel for you. I had to live that nightmare for this particular project.

It does help, though, knowing that you can go from this:

To this:

So, all that said, the first thing you’ve gotta do is clean out everything from underneath the sink. If you have animals (like we do), it may not be a bad idea to put them in a room so they can’t access the kitchen and sniff around all of those cleaning chemicals and whatnot.  Best case scenario, you don’t have any pets and you keep the area under your sink squeaky clean. Most likely scenario, you’ve got eight bottles of 409 with varying amounts left, two bottles of window cleaner and a whole galaxy of other cleaning products.

Pat yourself on the back. You’ve just finished the easiest step!

Now it’s time for the most crucial step: shutting off the water. You’ll want to make sure you have the faucet running both hot and cold when you shut it off to clear the lines of any and all water so you aren’t greeted with a wet surprise once you start loosening connections.

You should have access to the shutoff towards the bottom of your cabinet.  They’ll look like this:

Once the water is shut off, you need to begin loosening the water supply lines from the old faucet. This is covered in detail in the next post in this series.

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