{"id":42,"date":"2007-07-23T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:21:08","slug":"rv-plumbing-drinking-faucet-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/07\/rv-plumbing-drinking-faucet-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"RV Plumbing – drinking faucet replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, riveting topic… but if you read “The Start” and “About” – I did disclose that RV “stuff” – including maintenance and repairs would be part of this blog – great thing is you can skip a post that is of no interest!<\/p>\n

And if you decide to read on, don’t be afraid – it really is about the drinking facuet – this has nothing to do with the toilet part of RV plumbing…<\/p>\n

\"Old\u00a0<\/p>\n

The old faucet fell off and sprung it’s insides when I was cleaning it after the last trip.\u00a0 So, I ordered a replacement from Winnebago Parts<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 The replacement is a much nicer faucet, but it is different which will make a bit of a\u00a0difference noted later.\u00a0 The parts person said that his notes said to include a fitting kit – so I bought that.\u00a0 He did note that he rarely sent the fitting kit and people did not call to get it.\u00a0 I said send it as I can’t turn the water on without the faucet hooked up and I didn’t want to wait for a 2nd shipment if I needed it.<\/p>\n

The best thing about the fitting kit was the instructions which showed everything and how it goes together…\u00a0 My favorite part, though is the first line about “Installation …..\u00a0 being straight forward” – well, that itimidated me a bit.\u00a0 I mean, if I had trouble it would mean I was somehow incompetent..\u00a0 and then the diagram with what looked like many pieces and steps.\u00a0 Well, nothing to do but proceed.<\/p>\n

\"Instructions\"<\/p>\n

The only things I used from the fitting kit were a\u00a0plastic ferrule\u00a0and a tube sleeve.\u00a0 The compression fitting that I needed from the kit was too small for the pipe on the faucet.\u00a0 This I discovered after the faucet was in place and bolted on and that required my neighbor, Nancy, holding at the top while I did a contortion act under the sink.\u00a0 Under a house sink is not that much fun – under an RV sink – less so!<\/p>\n

The 1\/2 way point…<\/p>\n

\"Mess\"<\/p>\n

However, a trip to the hardware with the slightly small compression fitting (1\/4) and I found a 5\/16\u00a0 and a 3\/8 so brought both home.\u00a0 The 5\/16 was the winner and things went together – a bit of teflon tape per instructions was also used.\u00a0 Water on – success! – a working filtered water drinking faucet – much nicer than the original.\u00a0 Not so bad after all.<\/p>\n

\"Running\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, riveting topic… but if you read “The Start” and “About” – I did disclose that RV “stuff” – including maintenance and repairs would be part of this blog – great thing is you can skip a post that is of no interest! And if you decide to read on, don’t be afraid – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-notes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22536,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/22536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}