Hah!

[bunn]

The kitchen tap began to drip, and I thought of the task that is 'Summon Plumber A Week Before Christmas' and quailed.

Instead, having done some online research I decreed that we would take the tap to pieces and attempt to identify the broken bit.

I turned off the water!  I drained out the water!  I looked carefully at the tap and worked out what tools to use!   I learned which bits are the ceramic tap glands and removed one of them (Pp, encouraged by my success removed the other one).  I sourced new ceramic tap glands of the correct size and model and ordered them, while Pp, still feeling encouraged, put the old tap parts back together temporarily!   I turned the water back on, and the kitchen did not impersonate a fountain and leap on high!

The tap no longer drips.  I can't decide if I am pleased or annoyed about this, but at least we have a non-dripping tap, a spare set of ceramic tap glands, and a feeling of having Achieved Something. 

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!!

The Consort has a dripping kitchen tap that has been dripping for YEARS, but he has so far shown no inclination to try and take it apart, or replace it, or anything. It makes me crazy, but not crazy enough to want to bother taking *his* tap apart. If I lived there I would probably have taken it apart long since.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Blimey! Clearly persistent dripping is more common than I thought. I assumed that dripping would soon lead to taps that would not turn off, and leapt into action!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

It is veeeeerrrrrry sloooooowwwwwwwwly getting worse. At this point there is one magic position (it's one of those taps where you have a single handle on a ball joint that moves around) that once upon a time didn't drip, and now just drips the least frequently.