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Prenticeboy and burnerman just an update I took everything apart, put PTFE tape on the olive and made sure the pipe was seated in the wall plate, wrapped 16 turns of PTFE around the tap thread and it has all worked. Thank you both!

Yup I learnt that the hard way!!

I'll try more ptfe in that case thanks. After a number of frustrated attempts I tightened the tap, turned the water to it back on then tried to tighten it more to stop the dripping where the tap secures to the wall plate but ended up with a spray coming out of the top of that connection so I...

Hi everyone this is my first post here but I've lurked for a while and found some useful answers here in the past. I'm in the process of replacing the outside tap as the old one was wrecked by sub zero temp a few weeks ago. I bought a new tap and wall plate from screwfix (as there was also a...