Water Butt Replacement Tap

Product Information

If you are new to the world of plumbing then it’s a good idea to start off with these fittings. Not only are they easy to fit, they are also easy to remove again if you need to make any changes. Just push the joint down while pulling up the collar and then you can pull the fitting off. This is a premium tap with a no-leak guarantee. There are many "water butt taps" on the market however which unfortunately are not suitable for a permanent connection. As I’m sure you can imagine, pillar taps are available in a huge range of styles and designs. Older style taps, with the cross bar at the top are normally referred to as Capstan Head taps.

Two discs with matching holes in each sit together. When the tap is turned on, all of the holes are inline allowing water to flow but when the tap head or lever is turned into the off position, all the holes are offset and out of line, preventing any water from flowing. This means that they are also easily operated and ideal for those that may struggle in operating other types of tap. If you’re project involves working with the latter mentioned above then you are better off cutting off around 150 – 200mm off of the existing pipe and fitting a push fit flexi hose instead of trying to fit your tap to old and corroded existing fittings, much less of a headache! Fear not, in this project we will take you through the process of how to change a tap, beit a kitchen mixer tap or a bath tap, although they may look totally different, the principles of the job are the same. Both rigid and flexi hose connections also come with several different methods of actually making the connection from the supply pipe to the tap.

How to Replace Old Taps With New

As pretty much all taps feature a screw fitting that connects your connector of choice to the actual tap, this in itself is a form of compression fitting, but instead of using an olive, normally a rubber seal is used to create the seal once the connector is screwed up. Poke the end of the spanner up to the compression nut on the base of the tap and wrap the jaws around it, making sure you have a firm and tight grip on the nut. If however you are replacing, say, a full run of pipe to the tap with a flexi pipe and push fit end you will need to chop a little of the existing pipe away. Around 6-8 inches (or 150-200mm) should be fine. Firstly before we begin, turn the water off. If you’re fortunate enough to have an isolation valve on the supply pipe you can turn the water off there. A two hole mixer has tails spaced 100mm apart, a three hole mixer appears to have separate valves and spout but they are linked by a tube below the basin. Monobloc Taps

Note: If the nut looks rusty or corroded, apply some easing fluid such as 3-in-1 oil or WD40 after giving it a good clean and removing as much debris as possible.

What are the Different Types of Tap Mechanism?

This can include bath taps, basin taps and kitchen taps as long as they are not single-lever taps. Tap Washer Replacement Steps Once turned off either at the mains or through an isolation valve, turn the tap on to drain all the remaining water out of the pipe.

If you have a full-turn tap, where you have to turn the tap handle many times for the water to come out at full rate, then your tap has a rubber washer. The majority of wash basins, baths and sinks are fitted with individual taps, one that supplies the hot and the other for the cold water. Individual supply taps of this nature are called pillar taps.In essence, a threaded spindle with a washer on one end and handle on the other lowers of raises (screws up or down) the washer in to and out of a seat in the base of the tap body to increase or decrease and stop the flow of water.

The monobloc tap is in some ways the best of both worlds; small and compact with all the benefits of a traditional mixer tap. As the seal is effectively not screwed down into its seat, this does in some ways reduce the wear and tear placed on both the seal and the seat so on the whole, they are a little more reliable than their rising spindle counterparts.

Common Types of Tap

Before fitting your new tap, give the area around the tap hole a good clean with some anti-bacterial cleaner, Cif or similar. In other designs (such as the Capstan mentioned below), the handle and shroud are two individual items. The principles of the above mechanisms rely on a washer or seal being raised and lowered into a seat but with the ceramic disc system, we are dealing with holes. Due to this, they are no longer simply just a go-to choice for the kitchen, they are ideally suited to all water supply needs in the home.