Andy Burns wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:


Assuming we both mean those nasty white plastic things with a female
one end & two males?

Yes, that sort of thing.

They are a leak waiting to happen. Maybe not today, maybe not
tomorrow, but they will leak guaranteed.

At least the last two washing machines have come with them, but I've
never fitted them,

Good! Throw them in the bin right away. Burn them, trample on then, on no
account try to use one!

however the latest machine seems to drink so little
water that unless the hot tap has drawn off the cold water in the
longish run of hot pipe, it only gets cold water via the hot fill
anyway.

Thats why all modern machines are cold fill. Just disconnect & blank off
the hot supply.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk