Water damage. Is it the Plumbers fault?
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Would it be outrageous to suggest that some fibre washers are rubbish and some are fine? !!
Tonybhoy - I don't do enough bogs to know the washer you're on about. Got a pic?
It's usually neighbours who want free plumbing on a Sunday who come to me for bog stuff...
Tonybhoy - I don't do enough bogs to know the washer you're on about. Got a pic?
It's usually neighbours who want free plumbing on a Sunday who come to me for bog stuff...
Pic was posted,please try to keep up son
in a reply to gra...sorry Doitall earlier on in the thread,the one on Lunn's site Sponsored Links
Yes I know that even though I've only changed a few. A hundred or so I suppose. Not so far had trouble with one leaking though.dia said:
Still don't know whatcheonabaht Tonyb. Do you mean the skinny little red fibre tap-connector washer which doesn't fit modern float valve spigots? I've always mummified those with ptfe!
Nah,these ones.
Halfway down the page in the same packet as the HP nylon seats,orifices to you
They are almost always fitted in these below and the elvevated version
http://www.lunns.net/cisternspares/...istern spares/ballvalve_se_plastic_adjarm.jpg
Sorry don't know how to do a screen grab
Halfway down the page in the same packet as the HP nylon seats,orifices to you
They are almost always fitted in these below and the elvevated version
http://www.lunns.net/cisternspares/...istern spares/ballvalve_se_plastic_adjarm.jpg
Sorry don't know how to do a screen grab
It seems that you don't know how to do an image URL either.Sorry don't know how to do a screen grab
Is this what you meant:
having worked on numerous building sites fitting around 400 fibre washers a year i have never had any problems. The only fibre washers i have had a problem with are the ones they supply with some braided hoses, absolute ****, but apart from that no problems
There's no clear definition of what constitutes a fibre washer.
You get what you pay for, and, as eaton has observed, some are made of what appears to be nothing more than worst quality compressed blotting paper. Only this morning I changed one of those for a rubber one, on a site of 50 apartments built by one team of idiots.
You get what you pay for, and, as eaton has observed, some are made of what appears to be nothing more than worst quality compressed blotting paper. Only this morning I changed one of those for a rubber one, on a site of 50 apartments built by one team of idiots.
It seems that you don't know how to do an image URL either.Sorry don't know how to do a screen grab
Is this what you meant:
The very boy,thanks Softus
The fibre washer of which I speak is in the tail behind the nut. On new ballvalves this washer has been changed to rubber about the size of a washing machine hose washer but you still get valves with the fibre washer,brass side entry valves still have the fibre one.
No they flood the bathroom sometimes when the pressure is pretty high other times the cistern copes as you say.
I don't see how a leaking washer could flood a bathroom unless the cistern lid is missing, or the overflow height is incorrectly set, or, in the case of an external overflow pipe, there's a cracked pipe or leaking joint on the overflow pipe.
None of those things is caused by a fibre washer problem.
None of those things is caused by a fibre washer problem.
I don't see how a leaking washer could flood a bathroom unless the cistern lid is missing, or the overflow height is incorrectly set, or, in the case of an external overflow pipe, a cracked pipe or leaking joint.
It's called making excuses for shoddy work, if they are done up properly, even use a jointing compound if you must, they will not leak, and don't leak.
Faulty or split fitting, different story, but then you would make sure the client was show the fitting to cover your ass.
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