It is with great sadness that I announce that I’ve lost my battle against the Citadel Faucet of Leakiness. The kitchen is littered with the detritus of battle, metal shavings, tools, broken washers and cartridges litter the area. I may have lost the battle but the war is won… Moen has judged in may favour and a new Citadel will be constructed in place of the old one within 3 to 5 business days.
There was much rejoicing…
😉
Yeah, kitchen faucets are no fun.
My last kitchen faucet encounter:
Water had started spewing from the base of the faucet for no discernible reason. I disassembled the whole thing, bought a replacement cartridge, put it back together and nothing changed. After taking it apart and thinking some, I realized that one piece (a washer that had been part of the faucet for a decade) seemed redundant. I put the faucet back together without that piece, and everything starting working fine. How did it work all those years if that piece was the problem? Did I really fix it or is this a long con? Questions like these haunt me now.
Yeah – that is strange.