About six weeks ago I had a new bath and shower fitted. The other day the bath taps came loose and I am now able to lift the taps up and twist them around!! This has caused leaking through to my kitchen ceiling as water has being getting through. Tonight the plumber who fitted the bathroom came back to have a look and said that both of the plastic nuts seem to have broken (one of them into three pieces) and says that it is our fault for buying taps from homebase and that the taps he would've supplied would have come with metal nuts and this wouldn't have happened!
I argued with him but he wouldn't back down that two nuts wouldn't just break of their own accord through me just using a tap as a tap! He was having none of it and said that he would charge me £40 to replace them!! It's a load of codswallop if you ask me! I think he broke them when he put them on which resulted in him putting sealant around the taps so that they would temporarily stay in place.
Can anybody tell me whether plastic nuts are unreliable as he says they are?? I find it hard to believe that they would just break after only being used a few times!
Thanks