My brand new faucet sprayed water everywhere last night

So I picked up one of those pull down faucets from a big box store three days ago. Installed it myself, thought I did everything right. Then last night I went to rinse some dishes and water shot out from under the handle like a sprinkler. Turns out the hose inside was kinked and the connection fitting wasn't fully tightened. Anyone else have a new faucet fail right after install?

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white.alex27d ago

Jumped in on this one because same thing happened to me last week. @martinez.anna is totally right, plumber's tape saved my bacon after my pull down faucet started leaking like crazy from the handle. I thought I tightened everything fine but that little connection was just a half turn loose. I took it all apart, wrapped the threads three times with tape, and cranked it down proper. Water was everywhere too, soaked my dish towel and everything lol.

martinez.anna27d ago

Did you try wrapping the connection threads with plumber's tape? That fixed mine.