scattershot
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We're wrapping up a kitchen remodel, and I'd be interested in feedback on a particular question that's come up with setting up the kitchen faucet.
We had new cabinets installed, and this week an installer put in the granite countertop, mounting a new sink and drilling a 1-3/8" hole for the single-hole faucet. The faucet (a high-end European model) just arrived today. Our plumber is coming over Tuesday to hook everything up.
The spacing from the front of the cabinet to the back is pretty tight, due to the dimensions of the sink. The countertop installer drilled the hole so that one side of it is nearly flush with the rear lip of the sink.
The faucet package included a 1" spacer made of plastic or ABS or some similar material. The diagrams show this placed over the faucet shaft underneath the countertop; a large-diameter nut then threads onto the faucet shaft to trap the spacer against the underside of the countertop.
As things stand now, the spacer will not fit in the space underneath the countertop due to how close the hole is to the sink's lip. However, I have a mini-mill out in my shop, and it would be a quick job to cut a groove in in the spacer so that it fits over the edge of the sink's lip.
So I'm wondering about this. My wife has been without a sink for a couple of weeks, and doesn't want anything to hold up the faucet install when the plumber comes over on Tuesday. (She also doesn't want to go with a different faucet, or change out the sink or countertop.) Since I'm pretty sure I know what I'd be doing, does it seem like it would help if I cut this groove in the spacer in advance? (In fact it wouldn't be too much of a problem to test-assemble the faucet to make sure everything fits.) Or if you were the plumber in this case, would you prefer to do any alteration to the spacer yourself? Or are there off-the-shelf alternative spacers that the plumber might consider using instead? Just trying to move this along so it gets done as quickly as possible.
We had new cabinets installed, and this week an installer put in the granite countertop, mounting a new sink and drilling a 1-3/8" hole for the single-hole faucet. The faucet (a high-end European model) just arrived today. Our plumber is coming over Tuesday to hook everything up.
The spacing from the front of the cabinet to the back is pretty tight, due to the dimensions of the sink. The countertop installer drilled the hole so that one side of it is nearly flush with the rear lip of the sink.
The faucet package included a 1" spacer made of plastic or ABS or some similar material. The diagrams show this placed over the faucet shaft underneath the countertop; a large-diameter nut then threads onto the faucet shaft to trap the spacer against the underside of the countertop.
As things stand now, the spacer will not fit in the space underneath the countertop due to how close the hole is to the sink's lip. However, I have a mini-mill out in my shop, and it would be a quick job to cut a groove in in the spacer so that it fits over the edge of the sink's lip.
So I'm wondering about this. My wife has been without a sink for a couple of weeks, and doesn't want anything to hold up the faucet install when the plumber comes over on Tuesday. (She also doesn't want to go with a different faucet, or change out the sink or countertop.) Since I'm pretty sure I know what I'd be doing, does it seem like it would help if I cut this groove in the spacer in advance? (In fact it wouldn't be too much of a problem to test-assemble the faucet to make sure everything fits.) Or if you were the plumber in this case, would you prefer to do any alteration to the spacer yourself? Or are there off-the-shelf alternative spacers that the plumber might consider using instead? Just trying to move this along so it gets done as quickly as possible.
