Refurbishing the basin taps

10 days ago, I bethought me to replace the washers in the taps in the downstairs loo, and the project is still on-going, with the kitchen being mostly disassembled in order to get access to the pipes on the other side of the wall.

So much for a job that only takes a few minutes, but we never used that basin as the kitchen sink was under 10 feet away, and that was where were the soap and towels.

However, I digress.

One of the taps was completely locked solid, and 5 days of soaking alternately in both white vinegar (to get rid of scaling) and WD40 did not produce the desired affect, so it was off to B&Q for replacement parts.

My first reaction was to bin the seized-up tap, until I realised that it still had a use, or rather, the screw tail still had a use after being sawn off, and that is to make use of discarded tails, connecting them back-to-back.

Reply to
gareth
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The application of sufficient heat fixes most problems like this.

Reply to
harryagain

dare I ask how that's useful?

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

If you have a plumber's junk box, and discarded flexible tap tails, then two of them back to back as described above gives you an extra long flexible pipe with 15mm connectors at either end.

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gareth

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