Crescent washer under monobloc tap is bending.

Feb 10, 2016 3 Replies

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Rednadnerb 10 years ago

Can anyone help me with suggestions for this problem? The tap goes through a hole in the kitchen worktop, it has two soft copper pipes that screw into the underside of the monobloc and a threaded rod that also screws into the underside of the tap. The whole lot is held in place with a crescent shaped rubber washer, then a crescent shaped steel plate, t hen a nut that tightens onto the threaded rod.

The tap has become loose and tightening the nut just bends the crescent pla te. Can I get stronger plates at the plumbers merchant?

Thanks

Brendan.

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Roger Mills 10 years ago

You can buy replacement parts, like

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- but there's no guarantee they're any better than what you've got.

It shouldn't be beyond the wit of man to make a stronger one, using a suitable scrap bit of metal plate - given a pillar drill, a vice and a few decent files.

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Rednadnerb 10 years ago

Thanks for the link Roger. I don't have any of the tools to make one so have ordered one and hope that doubling them up will do the job.

Brendan.

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Rednadnerb 10 years ago

The new washer has arrived and it is nearly twice the thickness of the one provided with the IKEA tap.

I was speaking to a plumber friend and he has found the cause of the problem. The hole I cut in the worktop is 40mm it should have been 29mm diameter (a bit precise!), so my fault.

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