ALex wrote:
it sounds as though the top hat washers were not fitted ,if these are
conventional taps, and the plastic washer nuts have been over
tightened to compensate and broken,have you actually looked at the
nuts,can you post a picture

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A good plumber would have fitted these a bad one seldem ever does

Oh leave orf! Top hat washers have bugger all to do with it. No
requirement whatsoever to fit them. If the taps & the bath both came as a
package, which I assume from the OP they did, they 'should' fit perfectly
without a top hat washer.


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