How To Fix A Loose Tap ~ Easy DIY Job

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Essex Flanges
Makers of ‘flanges’ or ‘bosses’ for over 90 years
The popular Essex flange is the easiest and fastest method of making very sound tank and boiler connections for all sizes of pipework and immersion heaters.
There is no need to access the job through the top cap of a tank or cylinder because connections using Essex flanges can be made in awkward places by cutting a hole and fitting from one side only without removing the vessel. They are available for flat, curved, or domed surfaces.
Essex also produces Fix-a-Tap, which provides quick and easy tap fixing, preventing damage and rotation, whatever the material.
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How to fix a loose kitchen tap, or faucet for our American viewers.
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@scottstoker8613 Ай бұрын

Thanks Roger , I've never seen fix-a-tap until now. Also never seen MDF as a worktop over a sink , can't imagine that will last too long .

@weekendwarrior3420 Ай бұрын

With an MDF counter it makes sense to use an MDF faucet and glue it with wood glue :-) The nyou throw everything away together.

@baldeepbirak Ай бұрын

Recommend getting Wiesemann tap spanner set. Helps change taps in hard to reach places.

@howardosborne8647 Ай бұрын

MDF is the 'perfect' material for a sink surround🤣......I think I may make myself a shower tray from it😭

@nickhickson8738 Ай бұрын

Tell Isaac Ostrom that.

@jf2613 Ай бұрын

I just re-tiled my rooftop swimming pool with MDF tiles. Should last a good few hours I would think.

@gdfggggg Ай бұрын

Good solution. I’ve never seen those before.

@laurencetitusoates6328 Ай бұрын

MDF worktop that's a new one on me.

@howardosborne8647 Ай бұрын

You learn something new every day🤣...who needs that expensive Corian crap.

@jimgeelan5949 Ай бұрын

Ok if it was tricoya but that didn’t look like it😮 but ya who wants an mdf worktop

@paulross8821 Ай бұрын

Great bit of kit. U get them for stainless steel baths and acrylic baths too.

@OhadLutzky Ай бұрын

These are brilliant. I feel like such an idiot sometimes getting a plumber out for something I could easily do myself after watching the right youtube video.

@girlsdrinkfeck Ай бұрын

biggest modern gripe is a toilets flush plunger , i had my water board email me saying i may have a leak, turned out my flusher plunger was worn out and was leaking water constantly into the pan , i fixed it with a £3 amazon spare part and took me 5 mins, if u called a plumber out , thats minimal £100, PS NEVER use cistern freshener /anti limescale blocks , they make the flush seals brittle and less flexible

@42RHD Ай бұрын

Bless you!

@dougieranger Ай бұрын

Handy tip Roger.

@kendom33 Ай бұрын

Thanks Roger. Much appreciated

@Liverpool1ne Ай бұрын

Just the slight issue of turning the water off, accessing and removing the tap from underneath. For DIYers it may better to show the whole process but top tip 👍🏻

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

If you don't know that you need to turn the water off, don't attempt this job.

@Liverpool1ne Ай бұрын

@@SkillBuilder sound advice 😂

@jimhutton2373 Ай бұрын

Good comment. He only shows the easy bit any fool can do. I'd like to have seen him doing the limbo dance bit under an inaccessible sink.

@mungoh42 Ай бұрын

Good video: never heard of these devices but now I do! :-) I don't fix a mixer tap without using a muckle spring washer to stop the nut slackening off. It works for me, but what do others think? Stainless steel spring washer of course.

@michaelfraser5723 Ай бұрын

Simple, but brilliant.

@melinda5777 Ай бұрын

Thank You!

@quokkapirquish6825 Ай бұрын

That windowsill needs repainting while you’re at it

@gdfggggg Ай бұрын

It’ll only take two minutes…

@howardosborne8647 Ай бұрын

The hinges are a bit stiff as well😂

@gdfggggg Ай бұрын

Can you have a quick look at this door while you're here. It won't quite shut...

@lazylad8544 Ай бұрын

More knowledge from the plumbing oracle that is Rodger bisby. Thanks I'll try and remember this😉🤣👍.

@fastalpha6906 Ай бұрын

Hello mate and thanks for all the help for other things, how do you find an honest roofer when you got a leek in the roof. To repair slates. What information can you get from your city ?

@Pete.Ty1 Ай бұрын

👍👍👍. Thank you

@Marlaw101 Ай бұрын

Was that the customer who installed the w/top, looking through the window?

@andljoy Ай бұрын

Who the hell installed that skink , what a mess!

@tomreally598 Ай бұрын

great video but what kind of tool you need to get to the sink behind itif its not reachable please ?

@bordersw1239 Ай бұрын

Looks like this took an entire day😂

@robinbennett5994 Ай бұрын

You joke, but when you're working with a film crew, it's entirely possible for a 3 minute scene to take all day.

@bordersw1239 Ай бұрын

@@robinbennett5994 . Presumably he hasn’t got Stanley Kubrick directing.

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

I get paid by the hour

@bordersw1239 Ай бұрын

@@SkillBuilder 😂

@alanc1406 Ай бұрын

Roger did you actually crawl under that sink?. Have you a special plumbers cushion for that kind of work and some video footage also of that undertaking.

@IanFarquharson2 Ай бұрын

Does something similar exist for bog seat anchors? Our downstairs loo needs to be popped off and the anchors backed out and re-tightened monthly.

@allanatyou 29 күн бұрын

There's fantastic sta-fit toilet seat at Screwfix, slow close, never shifts, and v reasonably priced

@jamespaterson9801 Ай бұрын

Hi Roger, quick question please, ive just had a garden tap fitted, does the copper pipe going through the wall to the outside need to be sleved? And does the tap need to have a separate isolation valve from the mains supply? Reason i ask is the plumber that fitted it hasn't done either, hes also blown the brick and left it exposed to the elements with putting and silicon seal around the holes inside or outside. Thank you James

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

Hi James Thr tap should have an isolating valve and, strictly speaking, a non return valve. As for blowing out the face of the bricks, it happens a lot. I would use a brass plate tap connector and it is also nice to sleeve the pipe. Again a lot don't do that and I would say it is not worth going to war over. Maybe just avoid that plumber in the future.

@jamespaterson9801 Ай бұрын

@@SkillBuilder Thanks for that Roger, your reply is much appreciated, shame the plumber i used made a complete dogs dinner of the job. He won't get a very favourable review on my builder from me. I don't like leaving bad reviews but i think its warranted on this occasion. Thank you again James

@cypeman8037 Ай бұрын

Do they sell these taps in Morrisons? I know they sell wonky vegetables.

@anthonybragg Ай бұрын

Don't they have replaceable washers on modern taps what happens if it starts dripping?

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

You have to replace the whole ceramic disc

@rob5944 Ай бұрын

My first house had flexible pipes and the kitchen tap became very loose, so much so that it split and early one morning upon getting up for work I was greeted with a flooded kitchen!

@orlandostead8703 Ай бұрын

When I do this I use brass back nuts.

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

Yes it is a good idea.

@johnsmith-ik8il Ай бұрын

Box spanner.

@nickhickson8738 Ай бұрын

What fiddly taps to operate every time and especially if you want a flow of mixed water temperatures.

@billy4072 Ай бұрын

Do the rich good..to have some hassle in their lives…🥂.

@paul756uk2 Ай бұрын

Its even more annoying when you've got a swivel mixer tap that's stiff and rotates the god damned base. The taps in my caravan insist on doing this. Good solution though. I've never seen those before.

@the1beard Ай бұрын

99p spray bottle of elbow grease .. spray liberally and tighten up .. just FIXED . it for 99p

@lukeshepherd9529 Ай бұрын

Ok, what do I win for finding the CHIMP?! 😅

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

If you can find all the other ones in our other videos we will give you a very big prize.

@charlo90952 Ай бұрын

Can't understand why it's not a mixer tap.

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

Not all taps are mixer taps.

@fireblaster9961 Ай бұрын

Guessing another sponsored video then

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

Not at all, I bought the Essex flanges from my plumbers merchant. Low value items such as this rarely attract sponsoship and if they did we would say so at the start.

@dennishughes3250 Ай бұрын

And what would be the harm if it was? Man's gotta earn a living.

@weekendwarrior3420 Ай бұрын

Here across the pond we have invented faucets that can mix cold and hot water - that way you can adjust the T and there is only a single outlet. It's much more convenient and it doesn't rotate.

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

Wow! and you also put a man on the moon. We can only dream.

@weekendwarrior3420 Ай бұрын

@@SkillBuilder The Moon thing was just a Holiwood video, we admit. The faucets are real.

@rumco Ай бұрын

Doesn't matter, British aesthetics are stuck in 19th century

@weekendwarrior3420 Ай бұрын

@@rumco Did they even have running hot water in 19th century? Such double-faucet installations really existed for a very very short period between inventing running hot water and mixing faucets.

@ad9ack82 Ай бұрын

Anyone else see the gorilla? 😕

@uobefm2340 Ай бұрын

Pointless vt! Bet you were there for hours trying to get the taps out, and hours later trying to refit, with an extra pair of hands, standing over you holding the tap in place, c'mon Rog, your beter than this😢

@SkillBuilder 29 күн бұрын

You are so wrong, those taps came out in minutes because, as you can see, they were loose. It also took hardly any time to refit them after cutting the holes slightly larger. These things become easier when you have been doing them for over 40 years. As for the extra pair of hands, yes, the cameraman did hold them so the spout stayed pointing to the front while I tightened, but I have achieved this simple thing by drilling two holes in a piece of wood and using it like a yoke. The point of the video was to show people that there is a product that stops taps swivelling. I am sorry if you missed that.

@rumco Ай бұрын

Separate faucets 😂

@SteveAndAlexBuild Ай бұрын

MDF worktop over a sink ! 🤔😳🫣

@SkillBuilder Ай бұрын

yep, probably ten years old now

@grayhalf1854 Ай бұрын

@@SkillBuilderI'm amazed it's lasted that long! Surely would have been worth sealing the exposed MDF while you were there?!

@pigswillbepigs Ай бұрын

I only clicked on to see what the old dodger is pushing. 40 seconds in the big sell. My question, how long did it take to make sure the tap was loose before recording. Because that tap wasn’t loose before.