Plumbing Tips-How to change a tap washer

Male Speaker: on tips.co.uk if you have a problem like this sometimes the water runs very slowly or not at all from the hot or the cold what we are going to show you is how to change the washer in the tap so that it becomes more effective first thing to do then is to turn on the water supply off and when we do that by turning the water off and then on top here see on top here should be able to place it off then there is a screw on the top here and do that and remove the top head. And in there the nut in which you will need in adjusting the spanner again an adjustable spanner in there sometimes these are every difficult so you might have to spray some maintenance spray to release it okay and do this fully this there will still be some water coming out from there and once the tub the water is off completely it shouldn't matter.

In there is your washer see there washer is that rubber bit there and as you can see this one is warm right down because it should be slightly bigger than that first I'll show the what a washer should look like when it is not warned and see the difference as this is a fairly new washer you can tell how big that is in comparison to that. Okay so you press that off this screw driver and knife mind your fingers, so after pressing that off replace it with this once you changed the washer on that you can then begin to assemble it to be under safe side just use pipe draining compound in the fridge there. Little bit of pipe draining compound all over the fits but that back in the house and tighten it up to the plate going compounds filling up round the edges tighten that up off to its put the top back on put the cover back on but the water on and test and that's how to change the washer in your tub that's it.

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