Dripping tap...

We have had two dripping taps since we moved in.  The outside laundry tap which has continued to get worse day by day and Corey's shower tap which has dribbled badly since day one.

They got so bad we had to do something so we called the owners.

I am a builder's daughter and a dripping tap = new washer = couple of bucks.

I know how to change one, my problem is usually trying to undo the tap, so it is easier for Sean to do it.

We assumed that two new washers would be brought over and hey presto drips would be gone.

We'll this is day 2 and we have no running water, lucky we have bottled water. The laundry tap just got replaced old for new. The tap and the spout are one so I can see changing a washer might be more complex.

However, the shower tap is another story. Firstly they replaced the shower head with a new one, but it kept dripping (that's a surprise), so we got the old one put back. Sean tried to suggest a washer in the tap was the issue but to no avail. They have smashed a hole in the shower wall from the tap to the shower head and are now ripping all the pipe work out of the concrete wall.

So, I imagine that we will have new pipe work, including a new tap to stop the drip. Who knows? But the wall has to be rendered and painted.

 

All for a dripping tap! Labour is cheap!