Household fixtures in my coach?

RocketDork · 07-02-2010, 12:24 PM

I never thought of this until the faucet in the bathroom began to leak again.

I've isolated the leak to the connection between the faucet and the rest of the plumbing. It only happens when I drain the hot water heater and allow it to heat again without using any other water. The connections are all as tight as I can get them, but continues to leak.

Can I just replace with a household type faucet? They are much higher quality at the same cost as the ones my local RV deal sells. I'd likely install the stainless lines too, the stress on the plastic tubing seems to disagree with the installation.

I'll be installing an expansion tank at the same time.

InPursuit · 07-02-2010, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RocketDork

Can I just replace with a household type faucet? .

You have my permission to do so.

When I remodeled my bathroom and kitchen I did it.
(Any excuse to not feed money to the overpriced RV vendors is a GoodThing)

One Moen shower faucet that also serves the sink
and a cheapie Glacier Bay with sprayer for the kitchen.

The gotcha is the FLOW rates.
Unless you are always on "city water" be sure to have restrictors in there.

wa8yxm · 07-02-2010, 04:14 PM

When considering faucets to replace an existing faucet there are, depending on the style, two or 3 considerations.

One is the pipe connection: The Household and RV faucets use the same pipe connections.

Another (optional) is pipe spacing (If it is a mixer faucet) and again, it is the same.

Length of connecting pipe: Again identical.

Quality of faucet.. I am not convinced Household are superior but you are so I won't argue.

COST: Household do cost more, Believe it or not.

So to answer your question: It will work. As InPursuit said. you may have to pull a flow restrictor or two.

"007" · 07-02-2010, 04:50 PM

When you refill your HW tank do not open vent relief valve, and allow water to come out, allow a air cushion at top of WH. Hot water needs room to expand.

gbs2320 · 07-03-2010, 06:10 AM

I replaced bathroom and kitchen sink faucets with better quality units from HomeDepot. Straight bolt in and no flow re-stricter was needed for proper performance.

mahon1993 · 07-03-2010, 06:35 AM

I have changed a three of mine with household fixtures. Bath, shower and kitchen.
Worked out great.
Greg

Lorna · 07-03-2010, 10:41 AM

We have an RV unit in the bathroom but the sink faucet is a home style one. There is no reason why you can't use a homestyle faucet or shower setup in an RV. They all will leak too. For us, it is usually easier to replace at Lowes/Home Depot than try and find an RV store on a Sunday.

Chandler Bing · 07-09-2010, 09:03 AM

We replaced our bathroom faucet, leaked a stream , with a home unit from Lowes. Love it. Works flawlessly.