Plumber mait putty

[AI Plumber]

Hi everyone,

I have bought plumber mait putty from screw fix because I left the one I use normally at home. When I scooped some out of the pot to roll it on my hand it just stuck to my hand like glue. The more I rolled it on my hand the more it got stuck everywhere.

The one I use normally has a play dough texture and does not stick like glue.

was this a wrong one I bought or is it just that particular pot that was messed up ? Has this happened to anyone else ?

 

[Thegift]

Wet your hands I find works well

 

[gassafe]

What are you using that for? Iv had the same pot in my van for years now lol!

 

[AI Plumber]

I was going to use it for replacing a pop up waste with rod because it came with the tap with a click clack waste when replacing the tap. I think that pot of plumbers mait was a manufacturers fault. Is your plumbers mait really sticky ?

 

[Best]

Virtually never used the stuff because it is sticky and also oozes forever.

 

[dancinplumba]

Virtually never used the stuff because it is sticky and also oozes forever.

Virtually ? 🙂)

 

[dancinplumba]

Virtually never used the stuff because it is sticky and also oozes forever.

Temperature ? I would use silicone on a waste. And with gassafe never found a good use for it

 

[plumben]

I dont think I've ever needed to use plumbers mait

 

[plumben]

Temperature ? I would use silicone on a waste. And with gassafe never found a good use for it

+1 for silicone on the waste

I always silicone onto the waste, smooth it round then stick it in the basin,
Silicone the bottom in put the supplied washer on so it looks neat and tighten up

 

[dancinplumba]

+1 for silicone on the waste

I always silicone onto the waste, smooth it round then stick it in the basin,
Silicone the bottom in put the supplied washer on so it looks neat and tighten up

Don't even bother with washer unless have to

 

[REDSAW]

throw it away you will find better things to use

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Am I the only person who doesn't use silicone on wastes and find they seal fine without it

 

[plumben]

Don't even bother with washer unless have to

I only use the washer between the back nut and bottom of the sink to make it look neat and stop silicone going everywhere

 

[plumben]

Am I the only person who doesn't use silicone on wastes and find they seal fine without it

I don't use silicone on bath or shower wastes unless the bottom edge is rough and doesn't look like it'll seal

But always silicone on sink wastes I find the sink washers are usually cheap and don't do a good job

 

[Best]

Temperature ? I would use silicone on a waste. And with gassafe never found a good use for it

I also use silicone on wastes, and I find it usually fine with rubber seal below. I now prefer "ForeverWhite" as ordinary anti fungus silicone can still go black.
The Plumbers Mait just looks bad and it squeezes out around the waste edge long after joint is done. Only time I tried it was on a couple of faulty cistern to pan joints & I thought it poor. A lot of modern basins are, as we know, badly moulded at waste and only thing bluffs the waste joint is white silicone IMO.
Lots of plumbers use Plumbers Mait on wastes and pedestal joint, both not good IMO and it 'melts' down the pedestal. Using it on cistern to pan joints just risks the stuff slumping into the pan and causing hell.
I went to a new built house to advise my brothers neighbour (a very fussy bloke) why his Velroy & Boch cloakroom loo wouldn't flush even one bit of loo paper. I flushed it & the water just spun in one direction with one piece of paper. I just looked between pan & cistern to see that Plumbers Mait had been used. Git refused to let me sort it when he got this free info of me. He is so fussy he doesn't want tradesmen.

 

[Best]

I don't use silicone on bath or shower wastes unless the bottom edge is rough and doesn't look like it'll seal

But always silicone on sink wastes I find the sink washers are usually cheap and don't do a good job

Instructions even ask you to use silicone on some shower wastes, such as McAlpine standard easy clean shower waste, so I would give it every chance to seal well.
I had to replace same waste on a shower because the ceiling developed a big stain. Luckily just a vinyl floor covering & a bit of flooring to remove and there was the ceiling below the shower trap near erroded away. Idiot installer had just loosely tightened the trap and with no silicone. Give me the opportunity to tell the customers what an idiot they had got and also show them no silicone at all used. That's the danger if you don't follow MIs and things go wrong

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

I use plumbers mait on all wastes except shower when I use silicon, suppose it's just how your taught!

If it sticks to your hands it's because they are too hot, run them under cold water and remember to use a ball of plumbers mait to clean up plumbers mait, leaves a brilliant seal if done correctly and only oozes for a while!

 

[plumben]

Instructions even ask you to use silicone on some shower wastes, such as McAlpine standard easy clean shower waste, so I would give it every chance to seal well.
I had to replace same waste on a shower because the ceiling developed a big stain. Luckily just a vinyl floor covering & a bit of flooring to remove and there was the ceiling below the shower trap near erroded away. Idiot installer had just loosely tightened the trap and with no silicone. Give me the opportunity to tell the customers what an idiot they had got and also show them no silicone at all used. That's the danger if you don't follow MIs and things go wrong

I'm not saying I don't use silicone on wastes when the MI's say so but when theres a good thick rubber and it dosnt say to silicone, i'll not always silicone, although I do tighten my shower wastes on as tight as possible,

 

[stevetheplumber]

ive always used mait and never get leaks on wastes great for insert flush connectors as well

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

It's also great for rolling in a ball and throwing at the lower trades! Electricians, wood monkeys and such like :19:

 

[tolly]

I've always used plumbers mait aswell, only really use it on click clack basin wastes though (sausage on top and a sausage on the bottom shoved up into the gap) oo errr!

Generally though pop-up wastes (the type where theres no backnut as such as its all one piece with the connecter for the pop-up) I just use the supplied washers as its easy to get a seal when you don't have a backnut for water to leak through.

I normally curse the people who use silicone on basin wastes when I have to change one, even though most people I know use it.

Slotted clicker wastes are about the only thing I use plumbers mait for though. Never use anything other than washers on shower and bath wastes aswell.

 

[Thegift]

I use lsx on basin wastes and not had a problem yet, Although I use nothing if using a basin mate kit

 

[flat Eric]

Throw that crap away you don't need it, if its a basin your fitting go to Toolstation and get a basin mate ( 37534 page 328 £1.17 ) it's a cone shaped block of rubber, put some washing up liquid on it to help slide her in and bang job done with no mess.

 

[Radioman]

Throw that crap away you don't need it, if its a basin your fitting go to Toolstation and get a basin mate ( 37534 page 328 £1.17 ) it's a cone shaped block of rubber, put some washing up liquid on it to help slide her in and bang job done with no mess.

So that screws on from below instead of the plastic nut?

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Throw that crap away you don't need it, if its a basin your fitting go to Toolstation and get a basin mate ( 37534 page 328 £1.17 ) it's a cone shaped block of rubber, put some washing up liquid on it to help slide her in and bang job done with no mess.

How do you seal the waste to the basin above though?
To stop the water passing under the waste when the plugs in?