Mixer tap and waste - not enough thread for trap...

[marky9074]

Just fitted my Ideal Standard mixer tap/waste and was greeted with a rush of water down my neck!

It appears that there are about four turns of thread on the bottom of the waste (~10mm), but the trap has about 6 turns (~14mm), so the pipe does not pull up and seal....

Now I assume that all traps will have the same ends on, so would I be correct that the mixer tap/waste is faulty?

I have asked a toolmaker friend to make up a 6mm split spacer, which should do the trick, either that or slice a bit off the trap connector.

Am I missing something here? As everything I touch seems to be wrong!

Thanks in advance for your help,

Mark

 

[seco services]

is this a kitchen sink or bathroom basin ?
have you a pic ?
i think you must be missing something.

 

[seco services]

see what you mean now.
is it a pop up waste ?
some you need a trap like this they have a shallower nut on the top of waste


http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat...HZOCFFI?productId=10004&imageNo=null&ts=93297

 

[marky9074]

Its a bathroom sink, this one:

http://www.ideal-standard.co.uk/homeowner/productcatalogue.aspx?r=9&m=102&s=1#422

The waste trap etc are all from the old basin, so nothing new or different there, but like I say the bottom of the new waste outlet has only four turns of thread, whereas the trap has about six, so the pipe flaps around...

 

[marky9074]

see what you mean now.
is it a pop up waste ?
some you need a trap like this they have a shallower nut on the top of waste


http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat...productId=10004&imageNo=null&ts=93297[/QUOTE]

Its a lever pully waste (technical term).... old one was just normal plug type

 

[seco services]

pop up waste.
you'll need the trap as i have shown have a shallower nut.

 

[marky9074]

Cheers for that....

...that's a pain as the waste goes down not through the wall like the screwfix one.

 

[seco services]

yes you can make it go down the chrome pipe at the outlet is designed to be cut.
then fit a elbow going down to join existing waste

 

[arfurrrr]

its not faulty , just cut the nut down on your existing waste , job done .

 

[seco services]

thats a bit of a bodge.

 

[marky9074]

that's a bodge even for me....that was my second option. A nice spacer was the first

 

[seco services]

i would of said it will leak with the spacer as the ring seal on them wastes are only a rubber o ring

 

[marky9074]

Just an update today.... fitted the spacer (it was split so I could get it over the washer and retainer, and all was well! Perfect fit!

I happened to have a rotary waste to hand....and looked at a couple of pop ups in Screwfix and they do seem to have a lot of meat on the threads...

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat...HZPCFFQ?productId=41691&imageNo=null&ts=79023

Maybe I was just unlucky?

 

[Softus]

Maybe I was just unlucky?

You had the wrong waste for that basin.

 

[marky9074]

It's interesting as the ideal standard mixers (and waste) are different to the waste shown above i.e. the plug bit screws into the waste bit, but this is a housing in itself, which has some cut thread at the bottom. It is not like the waste in the picture which is a constant thread all the way through i.e. the captive nut and the trap use the same thread.... if you get my drift

It is the correct tap and waste for the basin as it come as a package from IS.