We had a faucet changing marathon last weekend, three faucets in one day! It may not seem like much, but believe me it was a lot of work. Especially since it was our first time changing a faucet.

These were our old faucets, aren’t they lovely? They had definitely seen better days. We’ve partially finished our master bath vanity area and the faucets were just holding us back.

My dad, Mr. DIY himself, came over the day before and helped us change the top part of one of the faucets. We left the plunger part like it was, but then the next day on closer observation I realized it looked terrible. The faucet was brushed nickel and the plunger was chrome.

I just needed to convince my hubby it had to go. He of course did not see my point, they both looked the same to him. But after a little persuasion, I convinced him that we would need to change the plunger and the faucets on the other two sinks as well. How hard could it be?

Well let me just say that it took us about four hours to do all three sinks. Plus one was still leaking, argh!  The existing faucets were so old and some of the parts were so corroded that they were nearly impossible to loosen. And  WD-40 did not really help.

This is what we found when we removed the plunger part. At first I thought it was sludge and junk, but it was actually plumber’s putty. But it was still pretty gross.

As we were working we lost a small vital plastic piece and almost had to run to Home Depot in the middle of the job. But luckily my hubby found it in a trash bag that I was putting old sink parts in, oops my bad.

That’s a small glimpse of some of the stuff in our pipes, I’ll spare you the view of what was on the inside.

We must have used about twenty tools for this job. We had to use a different tool to loosen every single connection. But by the third faucet exchange we were pros.

Ahhh, the new pipes and hoses, much better.

BEFORE

AFTER (Now that’s what I’m talking about!)

I heart our new faucets…

It was not an easy task at all but it was well worth it.  The new faucets make a world of difference. Plus we saved at least 100 bucks worth of labor (that’s the best part for me).

We bought these faucets, I’m embarrassed to say almost a year ago, for about $20 a piece. And the new hoses were about $4 a piece if I remember correctly. So for under $90 we gave our three bathrooms a mini facelift.