Apparently, I am NOT a plumber

So we had a small leak in our bathtub faucet. How hard could it be to replace the faucet & handles? (Oh my naivete) My first big homeowner lesson is that you don’t EFF with plumbing..

First up, I shut off the water to the house. Then I took off the old faucet & handles & bought a new set from home depot. I was thinking all I needed to do was swap out the old with the new right? Well after a few hours & me thinking i’d done a wonderful job, I turned everything on, only to find a massive leak WAY bigger than before.

Apparently, you can’t swap out any handles- they have to have to have the same base. Also, you need to change out all the seats for the handles (another new plumbing term i just learned). I could link to all sorts of online instructions & yadda yadda yadda… but seriously, just call a plumber. (thanks to flathead’s brother Will for coming out & saving our asses!)