How To Install A Kitchen Faucet

Pro Tip: These will have visible hoses running directly up to the faucet’s base.

Grab the new escutcheon and under cover plate.
Tighten the sprayer, then remove the clip from your faucet hose.
Double-check under the sink to make sure all stays dry.

Use These Materials For Installation Of The Kitchen Faucet

• New / replacement kitchen faucet
• Crescent wrench
• Screwdriver
• Old towels (optional but recommended)

The Step by Step For Installing a New Kitchen Faucet

Under the sink, slide the weight onto the faucet hose.

Step One: Turn off water

You’ll notice Hot and Cold hoses coming out of your faucet. 

Turn on your faucet to make sure it works. 

Step Two: Drain the lines

Pro Tip: The tabs on the escutcheon should line up with slots on the bottom of the faucet hub.
Grab the new faucet and carefully thread the hoses down through the escutcheon and center sink hole.

Step Three: Check for the escutcheon

Pull the kitchen faucet and all of its connected pipes, tubes, hoses, whatever, up and out of the sink holes.
Check under the sink for leaks. 

Step Four: Disconnect hoses

Pro Tip: Some faucets may have additional-length hoses that connect the faucet to the water source; some faucets may have hoses that are long enough to connect themselves.
Use a screwdriver to lighten the locking screws.
Run the faucet for a minute or two to flush out any debris.

Gently pull the faucet hose a bit to make sure it’s connected securely.
Either way, disconnect them all.

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To replace a kitchen faucet, you’ll want to clean out your sink first. Then, turn off the water and disconnect the hose. Loosen the nut under the faucet. Clean the sink holes. Once this prep is done, you’ll follow along the step-by-step guide laid out in this post to install the kitchen faucet.
Place sprayer back up next to faucet spout.

Step Five: Remove weight

Push hoses all the way down.
Remove the weight from the hose.

Step Six: Take out faucet

Everything is disconnected at this point – the two escutcheon mounting bolts, the water hoses, and the faucet mount.

Since your water is now turned off, you have no need for the hoses up to your faucet. Disconnect these (red arrows in the photo). 

Step Seven: Clean any grime

These need to be connected to the Hot and Cold water sources under your sink.
Attach the end of the faucet hose to the faucet outlet (right up under the faucet shank) with a clip or other attachment provided with the new faucet. 
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Step Eight: Install new escutcheon plate

Make sure the faucet hose is still secured (generally with a plastic clip) up on the sink side so the hose doesn’t get pulled through the faucet during the next step. 



The water source that is connected to your dishwasher is the Hot line; the other is the Cold.

Step Nine: Install new fixture

There you have it: The process for installing a kitchen faucet. As we told you, it wasn’t as hard as it looked! Now it’s your turn to go out and get your new kitchen faucet placed. We wish you luck and hope this was a helpful guide.


Reach up under the faucet and unscrew and remove the two mounting nuts from the two mounting bolts/shanks.

Step Ten: Line it up

It’s now time to install the hose weight. 
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Use a crescent wrench to unscrew the nut from the faucet-mounting bolt.
To remove a kitchen faucet, you need to turn off the water, disconnect the hose, loosen the nuts under the faucet, and pull it out.
If your faucet has an escutcheon (the “optional” 10-inch mounting plate that rests under the base of the faucet shank), you’ll need to loosen this. 

Step Eleven: Tighten mounting nuts

To begin, after you’ve cleaned out under your kitchen sink, you’ll need to turn off the water to your faucet. 

Step Twelve: Attach hose weight

It’s time to re-hook up the water. 
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After you’ve turned off both water sources, turn the faucet on. 

Step Thirteen: Attach to outlet

Place, then tighten with your hands, the two mounting nuts onto the under cover plate’s shanks to hold the escutcheon in place.

Step Fourteen: Hook up water

Place the escutcheon and under cover plate onto sink-top, with plate shanks going through the sink holes.
With everything disconnected, it’s time to remove your old faucet from its place in the sink.


Attach the appropriate hoses to the water sources – hot to hot, cold to cold.

Step Fifteen: Turn on the water

Clean the sink-top around the faucet holes and edge of old escutcheon plate.
Use a crescent wrench to tighten connection, but don’t overtighten.
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Step Sixteen: Attach sprayer

Attach them together. They won’t snap together, but they should fit snugly.

The last step to installing the new kitchen faucet is to attach the sprayer to the faucet hose.


Also, disconnect the faucet outlet hose from the faucet-mounting bolt (blue arrow in the photo).

Step Seventeen: Check for leaks

To install a kitchen faucet, you’ll want to clear out your space and sink first. Then, turn off the water and disconnect the hose. Loosen the nut under the faucet. Clean the sink holes. Once this prep is done, you’ll follow along the step-by-step guide laid out in this post to install tthe kitchen faucet.
Have someone hold the faucet in place up above while you head under the sink and place, then tighten by hand, the brass mounting nut and washer onto the new faucet shank. 
Turn off the Hot and Cold water sources.
A little residual water may run out, but then it should be dry.
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Kitchen Faucet Installation: Conclusion

Installing kitchen faucets are relatively simple once you have the right process and materials in place.

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