Sat weather was nice, so we decided to go and open up our trailer for the season. DH turns on the water, suddenly we have a puddle filling our living room floor. Even though he had winterized with the pink stuff, it seems we blew a kitchen faucet line when the water was turned on. We had an onsite RV repairman come and he told us that yes indeedy we had blown the line, but he couldn't fix it right then, but all we had to do was go to Home Depot and buy a regular kitchen faucet. It would fit there just fine.
(the groaning begins here)
First of all, if anyone here has a Fleetwood Prowler, you know that the faucet lines are not accessable from any place easy! Not from the cupboard under the sink area, not from the cupboard on the side of the counter, but from the cupboard in the front of the counter. So that means DH had to crawl all the way to the back of the tiny cupboard, hold himself with one hand, while looking up and trying to squeeze and reach the water lines to the faucet. Eventually, he got fed up and pryed loose the kitchen sink from it's stuck good with caulk or something, position. Finally he could access the lines easier.
Off we go to HD. buy the faucet. Back to the trailer, faucet does not have the same lines as the RV one!!! RV lines have one end with a smaller connection. By this time, it is getting dark, we do not have water, any food, the trailer is a mess, nothing done, so we just went to bed.
Sunday morning, up early to go to two RV dealers. Only to be told that NONE of them sell parts on Sundays! only sales for RVs!! WTH! So off we went to Meijers, Walmarts, Ace Hardware, Lowes. Nothing. No one has anything like the lines or faucet we need. Ours has the 8" span across, but with a sprayer on one side and a filtered water spigot on the other.
So we decide to go home for the week, go online or to an RV store by us during the week and buy the correct faucet. Now that we are home, I find looking online that the RV stores are only offering the same thing we saw at the other stores!
What are we doing wrong? Has anyone else had this problem?
Where, What and How should we fix this problem?
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We had a similar experience last year when one of the hoses to the sink sprung a leak while were traveling the country. Not the sink itself, but a hose from the pump to the sink. Fortunately, mine are easier to get to than yours seem to be. I fixed it using a 5-ft dishwasher supply hose and an adapter from a plumbing supply place. Cost me less than $10.
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md2lgyk wrote: We had a similar experience last year when one of the hoses to the sink sprung a leak while were traveling the country. Not the sink itself, but a hose from the pump to the sink. Fortunately, mine are easier to get to than yours seem to be. I fixed it using a 5-ft dishwasher supply hose and an adapter from a plumbing supply place. Cost me less than $10.
Was the supply hose different sizes at the ends? Maybe if we took the entire faucet, and lines hookup to a plumbing place they could suggest something like you did? DH says it would be so much easier and cheaper just to put a new line in.
md2lgyk wrote: We had a similar experience last year when one of the hoses to the sink sprung a leak while were traveling the country. Not the sink itself, but a hose from the pump to the sink. Fortunately, mine are easier to get to than yours seem to be. I fixed it using a 5-ft dishwasher supply hose and an adapter from a plumbing supply place. Cost me less than $10.
Was the supply hose different sizes at the ends? Maybe if we took the entire faucet, and lines hookup to a plumbing place they could suggest something like you did? DH says it would be so much easier and cheaper just to put a new line in.
thanks for your reply!
It would depend on where the leak is. If it's a leaky hose I would replace the hose and be done with it. Did the repairman give a good reason why to replace the faucet?
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It's so small I forget it's back there.
It would depend on where the leak is. If it's a leaky hose I would replace the hose and be done with it. Did the repairman give a good reason why to replace the faucet?
No, no reason. DH went to a large RV store by us, and they did not have another faucet like ours at all. Why would Fleetwood build something that cannot be replaced? this is not making any sense.
DH went to a plumbing supply place and they told him that they had never seen a faucet like that with the hoses shoved up inside like they were. Not easy to replace them because of it.
We are lost as what to do.
md2lgyk wrote: We had a similar experience last year when one of the hoses to the sink sprung a leak while were traveling the country. Not the sink itself, but a hose from the pump to the sink. Fortunately, mine are easier to get to than yours seem to be. I fixed it using a 5-ft dishwasher supply hose and an adapter from a plumbing supply place. Cost me less than $10.
Was the supply hose different sizes at the ends? Maybe if we took the entire faucet, and lines hookup to a plumbing place they could suggest something like you did? DH says it would be so much easier and cheaper just to put a new line in.
thanks for your reply!
Yes, the two ends were different sizes. That's why I needed an adapter for the small end.
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