Disclaimer: IANAP. I hereby offer my humble sacrifice to the Gods of Plumbing and prostrate myself before the temple of great white porcelain fixtures.
So I replaced both the seats and washers in my friend's kitchen faucets, but the damn thing still drips. Not much, but enough to be really annoying.
The washers in the faucets were unlike any I'd seen before: really tall, and orange/yellow rubber. Seemed to be more pliable than the black washers, too.
Old house (ca. 1920), old fixture: two pipes going into wall, faucets on each side, crosspipe running to swinging arm in center. I originally got a kit from Ace with all parts (seats, washers, seals). The washers looked wrong, but I put them in.
Yesterday I took one of the stems to a Real Plumbing Store. The guy there said that I had the right washers, but I ended up getting a set of green ones (resistant to chloramine, he said) instead of the generic black ones. Installed them; no detectable change.
When I asked about the orange/yellow washers, the guy said that made no difference--"just a different manufacturer".
Anyone here (preferably a real plumber) know about different washers? Is there a special magic washer that can solve my problem? Or does my friend need to just replace the whole old shebang?