Plumbing · Faucet Repair
Faucet repair in Toronto and the GTA.
Drips, weak flow, a stiff handle, a puddle at the base. Most of it comes back to a worn cartridge or a set of O-rings, and most of it is a repair rather than a replacement.
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What usually
turns out to be wrong.
A faucet is one moving part doing a lot of work. Inside the body is a cartridge or a pair of ceramic discs, and around it a set of O-rings and a seat that all wear at different rates. Most of what people call a broken faucet is one of those parts, not the fixture. We open the faucet, find the worn part, and tell you plainly whether it is still made. When it isn’t, replacing the faucet is the honest answer.
A drip that won’t stop
The spout keeps dripping after the handle is closed. On a single-lever faucet that is almost always the cartridge; on two-handle taps it is usually the rubber seats and springs underneath.
A wet ring around the spout
Water appears around the base of the spout while the tap runs, then dries once it is off. That is the O-rings on the spout body, and the faucet has to come apart to reach them.
Pressure that dropped off at one tap
Flow at one tap has fallen away while the rest of the house is fine. Usually it is the aerator screen packed with grit, and after that the cartridge screens behind it.
A leak you only find later
The cupboard floor is damp but the faucet looks dry. Supply lines and the shank nuts under the deck weep slowly, and water tracks along the pipe before it drips, so the wet patch is rarely under the leak.
A sprayer that hangs or dribbles
A pull-down head that won’t retract has usually lost the weight off its hose, or the hose is catching on the disposal. A head that dribbles when the tap is off is the diverter.
A handle that fights you
The lever grinds, sticks halfway or spins without changing anything. On ceramic disc cartridges that is scale or a broken stem, and forcing it usually cracks the plastic splines that drive it.
What the job includes.
Finding the actual fault
We run the tap, check it hot and cold, and take the faucet apart on the deck rather than guessing at a part from a photograph of the handle.
Cartridges, seats and O-rings
The wearing parts replaced: cartridge or ceramic discs, seats and springs, spout O-rings and the aerator. We carry common cartridges, and we identify the odd ones by the faucet body.
Supply lines and connections
Braided supply lines replaced rather than reused, shank nuts pulled up tight, and the compression joints at the stops checked while the cabinet is open.
Replacement when the parts are gone
Where the cartridge is discontinued or the body is corroded through, we say so and fit a new faucet instead: old one out, deck cleaned, new one sealed and run.
The test before we pack up
Hot and cold run through their full travel, the spray head cycled, the base watched dry, and the cabinet underneath wiped down and checked with a torch.
How the visit goes.
- 01Which tap, and what it doesBrand and model help, and a photograph of the handle and the spout usually tells us which cartridge is inside before we set off.
- 02Isolate and stripWe shut the stops under the sink, drop the pressure, and take the faucet down to the worn part. If a stop won’t hold, we deal with that first.
- 03The price before the part goes inOnce the fault is in front of us we tell you what the repair costs and what a replacement would cost, and you choose before anything is fitted.
- 04Rebuild and runNew parts in, supply lines remade, and the tap run hot and cold with the cabinet open underneath so we can see the joints dry.
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On the public record
“He was quick to respond and repair a punctured pipe in my home. He gets the job done right.”
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Faucet Repair questions.
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A repair begins with a flat $79.99 service call. That covers coming out and finding the fault properly rather than guessing, and once we know what has failed we quote the parts and labour before anything is fitted. If the sensible answer is a new faucet rather than a rebuild, we say so at that point and price both.
Water where it shouldn’t be?
Describe what is leaking, dripping or draining slowly, and we will tell you what the fix takes before we come out.