Faucet and Sink Repair in Brooklyn, NY

Drips, and the five-dollar fix people miss

Every faucet type has its failure. Modern single-handle faucets drip when the cartridge wears. Old two-handle prewar fixtures drip when the rubber washers give out, and those washers have been giving out on schedule since the fixtures were new. Ceramic-disc models go long, then fail abruptly. We carry the common cartridges and rebuild kits, so most drips die on the first visit.

And then there's the fake problem: weak flow at one faucet, strong everywhere else. Nine times out of ten that's the aerator - the little screen at the spout tip, packed with sediment and scale. Unscrew it and look. It's the cheapest diagnosis in plumbing, and we'd rather tell you that than bill you for it.

The parts under the sink that fail quietly

Open the cabinet and there's a small ecosystem down there, all of it aging. Braided supply lines that bulge before they burst - any bulge means replace, today. Chrome P-traps that corrode from the inside until the day a hand brushes one and it crumbles. Slip joints that seep just enough to warp the cabinet floor over a year.

The one that matters most is the shutoff valve. Half the flooded kitchens in Brooklyn got worse because the angle stop under the sink hadn't been turned since the Clinton administration and wouldn't budge - or spun freely and shut off nothing. When we're under a sink for any reason, we check the valves, and when we replace one, the next emergency in that kitchen ends with a quarter turn instead of a sprint to the basement. Cabinet floor showing stains with no obvious source? That's a Leak Detection and Repair question worth asking while we're there.

New faucets and sinks, installed clean

Swapping a kitchen faucet sounds simple until you meet the mounting nuts - fused to the studs since the Koch administration, in a space built for a hand half the size of a human one. That's the job. We bring the basin wrench and the patience, and while we're under there, tired supply lines and valves get refreshed so the new faucet sits on all-new connections.

Sinks too: drop-ins, undermounts, bathroom vanities, and the wall-hung prewar sinks that need their brackets taken seriously. Buy the faucet or sink you love - we install customer-supplied fixtures all the time, and if the model you picked has a known weakness, we'll tell you before it goes in, not after.

Small jobs, taken seriously

Some companies won't roll a truck for a dripping faucet. We will, and we'll make the visit count: the drip, the running toilet down the hall, and the slow bathroom drain can all die in one appointment - that's Toilet Repair and Installation and Drain Cleaning sharing a service call, and one trip charge instead of three.

One diagnostic freebie: if hot water is weak at a single faucet, the problem is that faucet's cartridge or valve. If it's weak everywhere, the faucets are innocent and the tank is the suspect - that's a Water Heater Repair call. Renters and owners in Clinton Hill and Bushwick keep us in their phones for exactly this class of job: small, annoying, and finally done. (929) 755-8936.