No, I’m talking about pouring water on knob on top of the vertical rod. Water just goes down the rod into the cabinet. Edited my initial post to make that clearer.
I fear you have drain issues, also
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lol nice edit. disregard this
well of course it will
and if any droplet from the natural use of the faucet were to somehow find that orifice, it’d do the same
there’s no waterproofing that opening, unless u completely eliminate that functionality from the drain - the ability to raise and lower it via rod manipulation
and it’s well hidden and on the backside of the monolithic spout
Ah, I didn’t realize that. Nevertheless that’s is clearly not the only problem. I’ve spent some quality time under that sink and I’ve seen water coming out of the other two holes as well.
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right. long story short, u need someone that knows wtf they’re doing, not passing the buck
I do think that I need to retest it. This last time (after the silicone) I just poured some water on the counter and saw it fall into the cabinet. I didn’t get under the sink to see which hole it came from. You can’t really tell unless you’re underneath looking right at it. It’s entirely possible that it only came through the un-waterproofable drain assembly hole.
the hole through which the vertical rod travels?.. yeah that hole should not be part of any test
a retest is in order
pour water on the counter top among the 3 trimmed-out assemblies
the hole through the spout-body has got to be at least an inch above the counter-top, and should not receive any water lmao
if the water is traveling down that rod, in my experience, it will continue to travel vertically and be visible on the connecting linkage( the rod that travels through the spout connects to another ‘rod’ of different design, which allows that rod-of-different-design to connect(according to both their designs) to a horizontal rod
the water finding its way between the counter-top and the handle and spout bases should act much differently… welling up on the underside of the counter-top as sufficient quantity rolls down those sleeves( drill holes)
lol I thought I’d make a good teacher
face-to-face I’d be better at communicating this stuff
That hole is nowhere near one inch off the counter. It’s less than a 1/4 inch. If you look at the link I posted, check the 360 degree view There is a thin square base and the opening of the hole is just above that.
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Yes, I’ve seen both of these things happen. They are different. I wasn’t sure what I was looking for so I never really kept track of where water was poured and what effect each had.
Of course, none of these experts really did that either. In one convo early on, the plumbing guy basically admitted that he never really considered the leak was coming from the counter since he was focused on plumbing leaks and this is kind of a different issue. He did kind of feel bad for not thinking of it though.
still, I submit very little water should ever find its way through that opening during normal use.
do you have this exact faucet elsewhere in the home?
inexperienced and non-expert
Yeah, I agree with that. Thinking back through it there were clear leaks through the hot and cold taps at first. But in subsequent tests I mostly noticed the water in the middle. I’ll spend some more time checking it out and report back.
Nope. That would have made the troubleshooting a lot easier.
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need update on resolution to problem.
Been out of town for the holidays. Didn’t have time to spend before I left, but will do my repeat test when I get back. .
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Ok, so I retested and I think that the silicone that the last guy put in fixed it. Likely what happened is on my last test is I poured a lot more water than you would see under normal conditions and some of it went through the drain assembly rod hole. I was under the sink and I had someone carefully pour water all over the faucets everywhere and made sure not to get any near that drain assembly hole and I did not see any leakage. Going to try one more time just to be sure, but I think that problem is solved.
It’s still unclear to me why the silicone was required. There was certainly a leak under each tap that was not from the drain assembly hole prior to placing the silicone (I could see from under the sink exactly where it was coming from). And now that appears to be resolved. I’m just going to test one more time to be sure. With a half day of normal use, the cabinet remains dry, so that’s a good sign.
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OK, now on to the next plumbing problem.
My water heater is about to die and I need a new one. I was thinking about getting a tankless. Plumber initially said that tankless would not be a good idea because this water heater sits in a closet with no external walls, so venting and whatnot would be difficult and expensive.
So we were probably going to go with a new 50gallon to replace the old one and then he thought about potentially going under the house into the crawl space (it’s massive) and using that.
After looking around for a while he found a good spot that is clear on the other side of the house (about 10 yards from where the old water heater is and that side of the house has it’s own water heater).
He says that he can put some sort of recirculating device so that there is no wait for the hot water.
One concern I had is that we live in a pretty wooded area and there are a lot of rodents around and he said that he would use some sort of flexible piping.
We have a service that comes by quarterly and sets up rodent traps and does other stuff to address the problem. But occasionally some rodents will find their way in to the crawl space (they generally die down there from the poison in the traps - we probably find one or two a year down there). What I wonder about is if the rodents can bite or tear through the whatever stuff he needs to put in down there to get water from the heater to the side of the house that it will be serving.
So, in addition to asking about the rodent thing. Any other things I should be concerned about or ask about?