How to fix leaky faucets

If you haven’t increased your time in the shower or washing the dishes and, even so, the water bill is higher, the fault may be that faucet that keeps dripping! Fixing it is easy: just change the seal, known as courinho. On sale at construction material houses, it costs an average of R$ 2.00*. And work pays off, see? You save money for the service and still save on consumption.

Material

🇧🇷 Pliers
🇧🇷 Screwdriver
🇧🇷 Wrench or screwdriver
🇧🇷 Courinho (if the faucet is dripping) or new faucet
🇧🇷 griffin
🇧🇷 Rubber gloves

Step-by-step: seal replacement

1. Close the registry. Unscrew the top pin of the faucet with pliers.

2. Finish unscrewing it by hand and carefully remove it.

3. Open, with the help of the screwdriver, the internal screw of the part.

4. Loosen the top part with a spanner or screwdriver.

5. Remove it. If the leatherette is adjusted, you will have to change the faucet.

6. If it is loose, use a screwdriver to reach it.

7. Fit the new leather over the pin. Fix it well so it doesn’t come loose.

8. With the part well fitted, attach the top part of the faucet.

9. Thread it well with the help of pliers so it doesn’t get loose.

10. Place the screw in the part and tighten with the screwdriver.

11. Fit the top pin. If you want, use the pliers, as in step 1.

Other models
To change the seal of other types of faucet, unscrew the top part with the pliers and follow steps 5 to 9.