The Medway Handyman wrote:
What is it with plumbers & fibre washers in tap connectors?

Easy, they often find that they are more trouble than they're worth -
especially after the local "fixit and bodgeit" has been playing with
them!

Its actually rare to find one. Usual practice seems to be to wrap
loads of PTFE tape around the bottom of the connector & hope for the
best.

No, they don't "hope for the best" - they actually know how to use the stuff
in a given situation!

Helping my daughters bloke remove entire bathroom today prior to
refurb, not one single tap connector had a washer, all bodged with
PTFE.

*THAT* would have been a sight for sore eyes I bet?

Bearing in mind a bag of 100 is only £3 why don't people use them?

Really quite simple for those that know.

A Easier to carry a roll of PTFE tape than many different sizes and
types of washers and O rings.

B Very often that's the only stuff that will stop a leak on damaged
or deformed seatings & joints [1].

C A very often, that's the only thing that will work after the "fixit
and bodgeit" brigade has been there!


A question Dave, is there actually one job that you have attended where you
haven't bitched about something or someone on this group?

It would be interesting to here from someone who has gone to job that you
have done, seen then work and then tell the world what faults or omissions
that you have left there.

Ah well, I've dug you out of the bin as a result of reading a reply from yet
another of your informative posts, took a little time to respond to -and
then said sod-it, your still as egotistical and with nothing new to say and
dumped you back in the bin.

[1] Other than the old putty, Bosswhite and horsehair methods of old - or
even the bloody silicone mastic of today