How To Fix A Loose Tap ~ Easy DIY Job

Essex Pink Fix-a-Tap Tap Fitting Kit for 1/2" Pillar Taps or Sink Mixer - for Stainless Steel Sink.

Essex Orange Fix-a-Tap Tap Fitting Kit for 1/2" Taps - for Ceramic Wash Hand Basin.

Essex Blue Fix-a-Tap Tap Fitting Kit for 3/4" Taps or Bath Mixer - for Acrylic Baths.

Essex Green Fix-a-Tap Tap Fitting Kit for 3/4" Taps or Bath Mixer - for Pressed Steel Baths.

Essex Yellow Fix-a-Tap Tap Fitting Kit for 3/4" Taps or Bath Mixer - for Cast Iron Baths.

Basin Wrench to Get into Tight Spaces

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Essex Flanges

Makers of ‘flanges’ or ‘bosses’ for over 90 years

The popular Essex flange is the easiest and fastest method of making very sound tank and boiler connections for all sizes of pipework and immersion heaters.

There is no need to access the job through the top cap of a tank or cylinder because connections using Essex flanges can be made in awkward places by cutting a hole and fitting from one side only without removing the vessel. They are available for flat, curved, or domed surfaces.

Essex also produces Fix-a-Tap, which provides quick and easy tap fixing, preventing damage and rotation, whatever the material.

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How to fix a loose kitchen tap, or faucet for our American viewers.

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[scottstoker]

Thanks Roger, I've never seen fix-a-tap until now. Also never seen MDF as a worktop over a sink, can't imagine that will last too long .

[weekendwarrior]

With an MDF counter it makes sense to use an MDF faucet and glue it with wood glue :-) The nyou throw everything away together.

[howardosborne]

MDF is the 'perfect' material for a sink think I may make myself a shower tray from it😭

[andljoy]

Who the hell installed that skink, what a mess!

[quokkapirquish]

That windowsill needs repainting while you’re at it

[laurencetitusoates]

MDF worktop that's a new one on me.

[baldeepbirak]

Recommend getting Wiesemann tap spanner set. Helps change taps in hard to reach places.

[Liverpoolne]

Just the slight issue of turning the water off, accessing and removing the tap from underneath. For DIYers it may better to show the whole process but top tip 👍🏻

[gdfggggg]

Good solution. I’ve never seen those before.

[pauluk]

Its even more annoying when you've got a swivel mixer tap that's stiff and rotates the god damned base. The taps in my caravan insist on doing this. Good solution though. I've never seen those before.

[paulross]

Great bit of kit. U get them for stainless steel baths and acrylic baths too.

[OhadLutzky]

These are brilliant. I feel like such an idiot sometimes getting a plumber out for something I could easily do myself after watching the right youtube video.

[anthonybragg]

Don't they have replaceable washers on modern taps what happens if it starts dripping?

[thebeard]

99p spray bottle of elbow grease .. spray liberally and tighten up .. just FIXED . it for 99p

[mungoh]

Good video: never heard of these devices but now I do! :-)
I don't fix a mixer tap without using a muckle spring washer to stop the nut slackening off. It works for me, but what do others think? Stainless steel spring washer of course.

[lazylad]

More knowledge from the plumbing oracle that is Rodger bisby. Thanks I'll try and remember this😉🤣👍.

[alanc]

Roger did you actually crawl under that sink?. Have you a special plumbers cushion for that kind of work and some video footage also of that undertaking.

[rob]

My first house had flexible pipes and the kitchen tap became very loose, so much so that it split and early one morning upon getting up for work I was greeted with a flooded kitchen!

[IanFarquharson]

Does something similar exist for bog seat anchors? Our downstairs loo needs to be popped off and the anchors backed out and re-tightened monthly.

[Marlaw]

Was that the customer who installed the w/top, looking through the window?