Whoever did this....I'm not really sure what to say about that. You swing the handles inwards to shut off the water, and because they are swinging towards the neck they both hit it prematurely and you cant close them any more than you can see in this photo. All I want to be able to do is turn the handles outwards to shut the water off and problem solved!

I am renting this place. This sink has a significant (as you can see) flow of water at all times of the day. We don't pay for water, and our landlord is sort of hopeless and is probably the one who did this in the first place. I don't want to pay for a plumber to fix something I am renting, and I don't want to confront my landlord about it yet as it probably won't get done. Is this something I can fix myself? I have very little experience with this kind of thing. I do have access to many tools. I'm not sure if I can shut off the water yet or not. Honestly, seeing as we don't pay for it water, its not much more than the most annoying thing in the world..but who knows how much water is wasted on my landloards part. I don't know what his deal is. Please help!

You can either remove the handles and position them so they will turn off the water without hitting the spout, or you can remove the stems and put the cold stem on the hot side and hot stem on the cold. They have been put in on the wrong side.

I would do as my friend from NC suggests and switch the stems from side to side.

Great, do I have to shut the water supply off for this or can it stay on?



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you need to shut off the water. what are those little domed shapes just below the faucet body? are those caps that when removed have shut offs under them?

since it is a rental, you call the super or the landlord

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