Ridgid Faucet and Sink Installation Northampton MA

Source: TOOLS OF THE TRADE Magazine
Publication date: November 28, 2007

By John Myrtle

Making plumbing connections underneath today's kitchen sinks can be a real challenge. With multiple basins, monstrous disposers, pullout sprayers and their dangling hoses, soap dispensers, instant hot-water heaters, water filters, dishwasher and ice maker connections, pullout trash-can slides, and who knows what else, it can get really crowded in that 36-inch sink base.

The Ridgid Faucet and Sink Installer, model 2006, is a handy, multipurpose, under-sink plumbing tool. It's a large, tubular, plastic wrench with two aluminum attachments that fit into its socket ends and is designed to easily reach and tighten faucet and drain connections. Notches on either end of the tool body fit 2-, 3-, 4-, and 6-tab faucet and sprayer mounting nuts. One metal insert fits 7/8- and 1-inch hex nuts to tighten water supply lines, and also fits oval shut-off handles for stuck or hard-to-reach valves. The other insert is for holding sink basket strainers and tub drains in place while their locking rings are tightened.

On many installation jobs, we found that this Ridgid tool gave us some real advantages over a basin wrench or a standard basket tool. Our favorite use was for installing kitchen sink basket strainers, and it fit every strainer we tried except one. The tool's large, easily gripped handle rarely needed extra leverage to hold the baskets while they were tightened in place.

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