Taking things apart -- such as a kitchen faucet -- is usually the easy part. It's putting them back together where most of us have trouble. In fact, we would guess that many garages harbor a box of parts from something that never got successfully reassembled again.
That's why it pays to remember the right order.
A good way to organize your small pieces is to lay them out in a line in the order that you disassemble.
Take a large sheet of paper and fold it accordion-style. When it's lying on a table, you can set each piece into a fold and the pieces stay separated.
Just reverse the order when you reassemble. Hopefully, there will be no parts left over.
-- Homes & Gardens staff
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