Counters produce impact in toilet or a kitchen. The rock feels and looks expensive. If you are using an undermount sink tops, and if you are installing your own granite counter, prior to installing the faucet you will have to drill the holes at the granite counter. Normally, the manner of faucet mounted straight to the rock are individual faucet pieces. As a consequence, you will drill more holes in the granite to install your faucet.
Place painter’s tape on the granite covering the area where you want to install the taps. Measure the sink and mark the painter’s tape with the center. Gauge the distance from the sink edge to the rear of the countertop. The faucet will mount based in that distance or approximately 1 to 1 1/2 inches . Find the distance center point you make and want a cross to indicate the center faucet hole.
Mark the location of each extra faucet hole keeping your pieces evenly spaced apart and the exact same distance center from the sink edge. Remember to account for your backsplash across the rear edge of this counter.
Roll plumber’s putty in your hands to make a rope long enough to match your drill holes all. Form the putty and press the rope’s ends together. Press on the putty into the granite to form a 1/2-inch high ring. This putty ring can help hold water within the area throughout the drilling process.
Attach a diamond hole saw bit into a variable speed grinder. The bit should be sized so that your faucet pipe will fit through the hole. Center the bit across the cross mark on the tape and tip the bit so that it rolls on the side but doesn’t touch the rest of the rock.
Drill, allowing the bit to cut through the tape and make a groove at the granite. Tip gradually to cut a ring that is ring When the groove is cut. Add water. Keep on drilling, using varying speed and allowing the bit. Pause to allow the bit cool down and refill the water. High speeds within this type of drilling process work not than lower speeds. Until you cut all the way through rock get deeper into the granite. Repeat for each hole.
Seal the interior edges of the holes to prevent stains. Use the identical sealer that you will use on the counter after the installation is complete. Paint the sealer on using a paintbrush and allow it to dry for 12 hours.
Select a long-shank style sink and make sure that the handles or features of this faucet won’t hit the backsplash throughout usage. Read the manufacturer’s instructions describing how to install your taps. Some taps have a rubber ring seal. Look inside the faucet for a rubber ring that is black. If you tap does not seem to get one, then form a ring of plumber’s putty and press the ring around the drilled hole at the granite.
Insert the faucet through the granite hole from the top. Place the massive plastic nuts that come with the kit on the tap pipes beneath the bottom of the tap where they emerge from the granite and screw them to draw the tap tight into the counter top. If you are using putty, this can compress the putty under the edge of this faucet. Before it dries clean away the putty that reveals from the outside. Tighten the nuts that are plastic employing a long-handled socket wrench.
Wrap the threaded underside faucet pipe together with tape, and screw the larger headed flexible water flow hose nut onto the pipe. Repeat for the second pipe. Some center-handle taps will have their own hoses installed, along with a faucet weight to keep the retractable faucet in its housing when not being used. Follow the specific instructions with the faucet model you have purchased.
Open the inlet valve to flush installation debris from the pipes. Discharge the debris and dirt into a bucket.
Wrap the shut-off valve pipe threaded head with tape. Attach the 3/8-inch compression nut end of this elastic water supply, fitting the hot sides together and the cold sides together, and tighten with a wrench.