{"id":2551,"date":"2017-10-27T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:00:34","slug":"under-sink-valve-wont-close-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/blog\/under-sink-valve-wont-close-completely\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Sink Valve Won’t Close Completely"},"content":{"rendered":"

My apologies in advance if this is too obvious. The reason I post this is because apparently, many folks in the present generation don’t consider maximum economy when fixing things (they just get a new one).<\/p>\n

Those shutoff valves under the sink are normally wide open. The only time you would close them is when you want to change out the faucet, or do a remodel. But sometimes (especially on the hot water side), it’s drip, drip, drip, no matter how much you try to tighten the valve. This happened to me. So I shut off the water to the whole house, and removed the valve.<\/p>\n

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The water supply was shut off at the main, and the valve was removed from the pipe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The top cap of the valve was unscrewed, and the handle was turned counter-clockwise until the entire assembly came out. There were the remains of a hard, crumbling black washer on the tip. The washer was too stiff to pull off – it had to be broken off in pieces. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture of the old washer in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I went to the hardware store, thinking that I would just get a cheap new valve. As I was looking through the plumbing aisle, a store worker asked if I needed help, and I said Yes. I said all I really needed was a washer to replace the worn one on my valve. He replied that he didn’t have a washer that would fit, but looked for valves that would fit, and finally came up with the recommendation that I get this certain type that was about $20. Too rich for me. After the store guy left, I looked a little further down the aisle and found a flat washer assortment. $1.99, and you get maybe 10 washers in the package. It looked like the smallest one, 000, would fit. So I bought that, instead.<\/p>\n

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Here is the package of flat washers I got from the hardware store for $1.99 . The 000 size can be pushed over the peg at the end of the valve, and fits perfectly. Again, I unfortunately didn’t get a picture of the new washer in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After reassembling the valve, I put it back on the pipe. I then put a piece of brown paper on the floor under the valve overnight to confirm that there were no more drips. It was fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My apologies in advance if this is too obvious. The reason I post this is because apparently, many folks in the present generation don’t consider maximum economy when fixing things (they just get a new one). Those shutoff valves under the sink are normally wide open. The only time you would close them is when … Continue reading Under Sink Valve Won’t Close Completely<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[232,234,236,233,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}