I found You do need all that tape with this tap and wall mount, otherwise if you wind it right down to the last thread to tighten, then the tap points off to the left. If you turn it back a bit to center it, then it leaks👍
There is loctite 55.. it is more tight than PTFE tape and you can back it up 1/4 turn if you need to center it. A bit more expensive but perfect every time.
Thank you sir. Now now I need to figure out how to pressurize the tap water without the without buying a pressure washer machine. I have the hose attached to the trigger.
Before puting the PTFE tape on, first count how many turns tap will go then finally use enough PTFE tape and start screwing tap on the plate and stop on desired position in final turn, hope it will be tight enough so wont leak.
Useful tip, but how do you calculate out much tape is "enough"? Is the amount of tape related to the number of turns? In the past, I've generally wound the tape around only 2-3 times, or at most 4, so I was amazed at how much tape he put on. It would be great to have a rule of thumb or a method of calculating how much tape in different circumstances.
Will freeze and burst in the winter, even if insulted and turned off from inside and the tap is then opened as taps with check valves in them don't drain out completely.
I've got one of them and trying to do it now, my issue is that female bit from the wall elbow is facing down when tap is connected and I need it to be faced upright just like in this video. Any ideas what should I do?
Good morning i have a tap in garden and the water is constantly dripping from tap. I have never used my garden tap and therefore i want to isolate it but unfortunately i can't find my isolation tap. I have checked underneath the kitchen sink but there is No pipe and valve for garden tap. Please advise me. Many Thanks.
The isolation valve will be on the pipe from the tap itself. Follow the pipe where it enters the house, when you find the valve use a flat head screwdriver to turn off. Usually half a turn does it but turn the tap on to check. Hope that helps
Hello nice job, But what would have been a better job. If you had used a bib tap pipe rose . The pipe is concealed, behind the wall plate…. If you understand what I mean…
Why you didn't show the inside work.. That's the most important thing to be wras approved and avoid future issues. Why you didn't make the vertical pipe shorter to avoid water freezing in it?
You installed the wrong type of tap. Tap with built in check valve can only be used to replace an existing tap with built in check if first tap was installed before 1999. New tap installation must be tap without built in check valve. A check valve must be fitted within building in a place it will not freeze. Change in regs is due to no one drains the water from the check valve draining nut under tap in winter. Water within check valve then freezes which damages check valve mechanism rendering unable to act as back flow preventer allowing contamination into internal pipe work. If in doubt consult a qualified plumber.
Render on the wall is all burst. Drill the hole from the outside of the property to the inside and this doesn't happen. Why have all that copper pipe showing that can freeze in the Winter? All you need is soldered street elbow coming out of the wall and tightened into the wall plate. A chrome wall plate on a brass bib tap?
Jbhoy Celtic Someone’s touchy, giving the same reply to every negative comment. I don’t need to be a chef to know food tastes bad and I don’t need to be a plumber to know when a pipes leaking. People can give criticism and improvements without having to film and upload a video themselves. People wanting to know how to install a tap need to know how to do it properly, and if theirs a better way, I’d like to know. Hence why comments like the ones above are helpful
@@JackKing12. Yes if one was looking for that, but no reason to run down the presenter. There are a lot of other RU-vids dealing with that. I was grateful for the simplicity of the subject I actually wanted.
