advice would be most appreciated!

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If you read the reply properly avaarse you will read that i said the thread that screws into the TAP, NOT the compression fitting.

Well that is even worse in my book, using PTFE on a tap connector. Have you ever heard of a washer? I am not being clever, I am just trying to tell people the correct way to do something.

If you use PTFE on the thread of anything other than rad tails/steel fittings and the like - which the manufacturers instruct you too, you are creating a leak waiting to happen . . . .

 

[royston]

Well that is even worse in my book, using PTFE on a tap connector. Have you ever heard of a washer? I am not being clever, I am just trying to tell people the correct way to do something.

If you use PTFE on the thread of anything other than rad tails/steel fittings and the like - which the manufacturers instruct you too, you are creating a leak waiting to happen . . . .

You may think that your way is best but i disagree, being a plumber for 20 yrs i think i can be clever. Do you know what im talking about ? Have you fitted many mono-block mixer taps ?? If not ill tell you that they dont have TAP CONNECTORS on them they are supplied with TAILS. And these tails screw INTO the tap. Now you wrap a few wraps of tape around the threads and screw them INTO the tap. Been doing it that way for 20 yrs and no problems, this is GOOD advice. Now a TAP CONNECTOR has a FIBRE washer on the end, which are rubbish in my opinion, and they SCREW ONTO a tap NOT into a tap. I believe the OP has a mono mixer tap. Done !!

 

[tamz]

Btw.
If you are stuck with no washer for a tap adaptor you can wind a shoulder with ptfe. It won't leak.

 

[royston]

Yeh agree with above.

 

[fuzzy]

Btw.
If you are stuck with no washer for a tap adaptor you can wind a shoulder with ptfe. It won't leak.

err, well long enough to get paid and get away anyway!

 

[tamz]

Believe me it will last if you do it right. I have stripped some out that have been like that 30+ years with no problem.
A washer is always the way to do it but there are times when you don't have any. You could sit for 10 minutes and make up a hemp shangie if it makes you feel better

 

[royston]

Fibre washers are crap, ive been to loads of leaking tap connectors and ball valves with leaking fibre washers that have disintegrated.

 

[stevetheplumber]

i wouldnt put ptfe on the tails where they screw into th tap body the o rings they come with have never let me down and i think the tape could interfere with the way they are made to work but hey what ever works for you
39 years a plumber lol
as for tap cons we used to make grommets from hemp for every one but fibre washer or tape is good

 

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I dont use ptfe on any fitting that doesn't require it - like the monobloc tap threads that have a O RING seal on them . . .

Jesus!

I don't know what your problem is mate - what ever it is dont start a fight about it ok.

 

[royston]

My problem is people on this site thinking they are so high and mighty and their advice is law. Making out that wrapping a bit of PTFE around a tap tail thread is some terrible wrong thing do do that will cause injury and harm to someone !!

 

[PlumbBobBob]

tap tails that have o-rings on them don't need ptfe tape.

 

[dontknowitall]

O yes they do ... O no they don't ... O yes they do ... O no they don't ...

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This is a subject that riles plumber right up that is for sure!!!

People who come on this site are either DIYers or new plumbers, and therefore the advice we give them should adhere to both the manufacturers specifications and the building regs. If you have another way of doing something that works for you thats great, but I personally cannot recommend that to newbies who ask me for advice - the advice I give has to be by the book!

As we all know sometimes when you are on site, it is almost impossible to follow the 'book' to the letter . . . .