Vandal proof taps?

[Chris Pearce-Webb]

I am a school Caretaker and the kids frequently flood the washrooms by turning the basin taps around.
Does anyone know how I can combat this, or can you get teps with Square ends that would fit into a square hole in the basin, if anybody can provide a link that would be great.
Thanks, Chris

 

[footprints]

I guess you have thought about self closing taps?

http://www.heatandplumb.com/acatalog/Self_Closing_Taps.html

 

[Dan Robinson]

Think he's talking about kids wrenching them around.


Maybe bib taps bolted to the wall with liquid PTFE instead of regular tape.


Wrong forum too BTW

 

[footprints]

Yes Dan, I just figured the little B****** would not be able to leave them running.

It is a shame square holes and taps with lugs have been phased out, even taps in domestic use tend to spin, I find the Fix-a-Tap good but they will not stop deliberate force being used

 

[Chris Pearce-Webb]

It's a shame that the square holes and taps have been phased out, that was the kind of thing I was looking for.
It's 'silly season' now, leavers are going on the rampage setting off fire alarms and extinguishers so I'm kept on my toes.
Anyway I'm a newbie to the forum and I aplogise for putting this in the wrong section and look forward to talking to you guys again, maybe my school experience can help you out. Chris

 

[muggles]

Shame that big sticks have been phased out too, eh?

 

[Madrab]

Do you have the type of sink that could use a bridge mixer tap? Would it be worth it to replace for sinks that can, offsetting costs against the current cost of repairing the ongoing vandalism damage? I'm sure you can get non concussive types like this.

 

[Belboz]

Shame you can't wire them to the mains and shock the little fookers......

 

[Chris Pearce-Webb]

Do you have the type of sink that could use a bridge mixer tap? Would it be worth it to replace for sinks that can, offsetting costs against the current cost of repairing the ongoing vandalism damage? I'm sure you can get non concussive types like this.

Thats a good idea, If I could get them with a self closer, I'd be on to a winner

 

[Madrab]

If you can't get a mixer already with non concussive heads then you could always retrofit them with replacement heads

 

[Biggles..]

One school that we maintain has this particular issue, generally it's boys where as the girls just prefer to draw on the toilet walls.

The trick is to thicken out the tap tail so it's tight as it goes into the hole, old way of doing that would have been with lead, you get a similar success with ptfe, wrap it round till its bigger than the tap hole in the basin, as you tighten the tap on it wedges itself in place, make them very hard to turn.

Persistent pupils will almost Rip basins from walls trying to spin taps, worst case is panel mounted IR blended outlets.

 

[OwainDIYer]

If there's a run of basins with taps all in a line put some steel angle iron along the line of the top of the taps and spot weld it to each tap.

Or just turn the water off. It's not like the little brutes will actually wash their hands is it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Does anyone know how I can combat this,

CCTV and exclusions.

 

[JBR]

Does anyone know how I can combat this,

CCTV and exclusions.

I'm all in favour of this but, unfortunately, we have a vast army of 'human rights' lawyers who would love the opportunity to jump on it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I am not aware that the right to commit criminal damage without being sanctioned for it is enshrined in law.