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<\/a><\/p>\nIn the past year or so, I’ve learned a little bit of super-basic plumbing in figuring out how to fix a slow bathroom drain and when I super-clogged the kitchen drain being a bad garbage disposal user (twice). I watched some youtube videos and decided I could totally replace the faucets myself. I ordered one faucet, in brushed chrome, from efaucets.com. I thought I’d just start with the one and see how it went before committing to doing both. <\/p>\n
I took out the old faucet and then (after being grossed out and quite frustrated several times) finally got the old drain out. I ran into some problems that several confused trips to home improvement stores solved in the course of putting the new stuff in, but eventually, I got everything installed successfully. EXCEPT! Upon standing back to admire my beautiful new faucet, I noticed (and could not unsee) that the drain and the faucet were different colors (!):<\/p>\n
The faucet was the brushed chrome that I ordered, but the drain was brushed nickel. The parts had come in one Kohler box with Kohler seals on it, and I was so focused on figuring out what the hell I was doing that I didn’t notice the mismatch before I installed both parts. As you can imagine, I could not deal with these things not matching. I contacted efaucets.com, and they told me that I needed to talk to Kohler. I contacted Kohler via their website (so that I could send a picture of the mismatch), and they sent out a new drain assembly to me right away, free of charge and without having to send the mismatched one back (I could not be more pleased with how this was handled).<\/p>\n In the mean time, I decided that I rather liked the way the brushed nickel drain looked, and I also decided that in no way did I want to take the drain that I had already installed out, so the second faucet that I ordered was brushed nickel. I took the brushed chrome faucet out of my bathroom, and I replaced it with the new brushed nickel one. Here’s a picture once the mismatch in my bathroom was resolved with the second new faucet:<\/p>\n The brushed chrome faucet and the chrome drain that Kohler sent me to match it went in the hall bathroom. That installation went soooo much better than the first since I knew what the hell I was doing (relatively). Admire:<\/p>\n A bonus to this is that I have an extra brushed nickel drain assembly that I can try to sell on the interwebs…assuming it’s possible someone would need just a drain, I could make upwards of $40!!<\/p>\n I’m super excited about having done this, even though it turns out that replacing faucets is pretty easy and definitely not the big deal I thought it was. I thought it was kind of fun. <\/p>\n (Also, one-handle faucets are the best faucets. That is all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always thought the builder’s grade basic faucets in my bathrooms were gross, but I didn’t want to bother with finding a plumber (or getting “Uncle” Dan to come all the way here) to have them replaced. Additionally, since … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n