OT Pushfit Taptails

[alang]

On the mating surfaces. They tend to leak otherwise

[joe]

But they are both compression joints, which have a nut that compresses an olive to make a watertight seal, they require no jointing compound. Dunno about the other end, I could not see them. The way to use compression fittings, is to clean the pipe thoroughly and hand tighten the nuts, then give them 1/2 turn to tighten, put the water through, then tighten if needed. The biggest mistake by far, is not cleaning the pipe, followed by overtightening.

[The Medway Handyman]

Maria wrote: I'm

Could I ask where you are doing the course & how much it costs?

[alang]

No olive on the tap end. It's a copper mating surface

Try installing a bath or kitchen sink unit and fixing a leak after you fitted it all

The easiest thing is to use a joint sealant during assembly.

[Maria]

Sink 1cm too long to fit in hole - lost my jigsaw (in house move presumably)

Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!

Just when you thought you had covered every eventuality...

[<me9]

No. Fernox LSX is the new WD40.

[PeterC]

Sympathy. I had to replace a sink and the new one was just a bit too long and, worse, about a cm. too narrow and the work-top was tiled! Fortunately there were about a hundred spare tiles in the garage, so getting the extra length wasn't too bad but sawing off lots of little bits of 4" tiles was.

[alang]

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How do you get under the bath or up the back of the sink to apply it without taking the whole lot out?

[alang]

Buy or borrow another saw or router