"Ed Sirett" wrote in message
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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:45:52 +0000, R obbo wrote:


"john" wrote in message
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I really must take one of my taps to the plumbers merchants to get what
I
really need! Whenever I am in one of the sheds I see some tap washers
and
think - they are what I need - then when I come to fit one I find it
isn't.
(Always on a Sunday evening)
It used to be so easy 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch.

If anyone wants to offer advice my taps are "Tiber" about 20 years old.
the washer needs to press over a mushroomed stud.

1 Turn off water supply
2 Remove tap top
3 Arrange transport of you and tap to plumbers
4 At plumbers say to man " Oi mate.....gissa tap washer for this"
5 Add please to the end of 4
6 Pay man
7 Return home
8 Fit tap back together
9 Turn on water
10 Fill kettle, boil and have a cuppa.

Order tap washer selection kit from Screwfix (about a dozen different
types in there) Avoid 3-7 entirely.
Remember Supataps? - you see them from time to time in older peoples
houses. Why did they fall out of favour?

Were they the downwards-pointing silver ones with four ears, that didn't
need the water supply turned off to change the washer?