Hey, it's Mark from Top Homeowner again. And in this video, I'm going to show you some quick ways to figure out what brand of faucet you have so you can get it fixed. Okay, so the easiest way to figure out what brand of faucet you have is to look on the outside to see if you can find the logo or the name brand of the manufacturer. Sometimes this can be covered up by dirt and grime, so you should get some cleaning cloths and just clean the outside of the faucet to see if you can find the logo or an identifying mark, or sometimes even a model number.

If you can't, then the next thing you should do is you should take a flashlight and shine it on the outside of the faucet, because sometimes these logos are just barely imprinted, especially on older ones, or maybe even some higher end models where they don't want the logo to be like the first thing that you see.

If you can only find a letter or a logo on the outside, then I'll include a resource below where you can go and kind of use this as a cheat sheet to figure out what manufacturer it is that created your faucet. Another quick tip is to look underneath the sink, because sometimes you might be able to find a label that's attached to a supply line that will tell you the manufacturer and even the model number. If that doesn't work out for you, the other option you have is to disassemble one of the faucet handles.

Take that off and check for a couple of things to figure out who the manufacturer is, and I'll show you how to do that right now.

Now, with any plumbing project, I always recommend you turn off the water. In this case, you can either turn off the water supplies underneath the sink or you can turn off the water main to the house. Now, for this specific faucet, this has a cap over the top of it. So I'm just going to pull this off here. Once I do that, I'll have access underneath this to a screw.

Hopefully you can see down in there, but that's a Phillips head screw inside of the faucet handle. All we have to do is take a screwdriver and unscrew that and this handle should come off. You need to hold the handle still so we can unscrew it, and then we can just lift the handle straight up. So once you have the handle off, there's a couple of things you need to do. One you need to count the number of splines that you have on the broach and the broach.

Is this piece here when you count, like in this case, it's 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Eleven. There are eleven splines n this, so just make note of however many that you have. Sometimes these splines are a lot denser, like it's a piece of metal with little tiny gear notches marked into it. So if that's the case, then you want to be very careful as to how you're counting, and it's also a good idea to take a pen and to mark a starting point on the spine.

So that way you know where you started and you can have an accurate count and not second guess whether or not you started counting too many or where you started and stopped. The other thing you need to do is take note of whether or not this top part is an Oval or a circle or another odd shape that can help you determine what brand and manufacturer of the faucet that you have.

Once you have that information, you can do a Google search to figure out what the manufacturer is of your faucet. The other thing you can do is take that information as well as a picture with your smartphone of the faucet with the handle off, I would get as close to a shot as I could to the faucet stem. Once this handle is removed. Once you're there, you can either try and match it up yourself or you can go and talk to someone and they can help you identify based on the information you have along with the photo, what parts you need.

Hopefully you found this video helpful.

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