Unbeliever wrote:
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!

Oh hello, its Tanner OP, Squared, Unbeliever - or whatever you call yourself
this week. '****wit' would seem to be appropriate.


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!

Hint. Tap connectors are supplied with fibre washers, not a roll of PTFE.

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.

Which clearly doesn't include you.

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

'Different sizes and types'? ****wit. There are 2 sizes & 1 type.

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

Bollox it is. A fibre washer is the right way to do the job. Hint. Tap
connectors are supplied with fibre washers, not a roll of PTFE.

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

Fibre washers work. Hint. Tap connectors are supplied with fibre washers,
not a roll of PTFE.

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

Many. You are clearly too stupid to realise that I do 2 or 3 jobs a day, 6
days a week.

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.

Post that again when sober. I think you are saying "It would be interesting
to here [hear]from someone who has gone to [a] job that you have done, seen
then [the] 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.

Very good. Why don't you just FOAD and do us all a favour?

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

Still stuck in that 1950's time warp I see.

Still the same old failure put out to grass.


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