Rotating bath taps

[Steve500]

I couldn't see this subject elsewhere. Apologies if it has already been covered.

I have fitted new hot and cold pillar taps to my bath connected by flexi's. I have tightened the back nut as far as I can but the taps still rotate in their respective holes.

Is there a special washer or something to prevent them rotating? I tried a couple of local merchants but the spotty herberts behind the counter looked at me like I was mental.

Regards

 

[Blasphemous]

Steve,

It may be a case that you've torn the threads. But if you can feel it tightening then that's unlikely. Its probably just not 'nipping up' to the bath. Sometimes the tap 'tail' can extent through the tap hole and the thread runs out before the nut has a chance to tighten up. Try adding a Rubber Washer to the underside of the tap before it goes in to the tap hole.

One other thing... Have you fitted a 'Top Hat' to the underside of the tap tail?

 

[TicklyT]

First guess is add some more washers as Blasphemous suggested, or you could try a length of wood (say, 3" X 1" or thereabouts) bored to take the tap tails and trimmed to fit round the overflow etc, fitted over the tails with rubber washers on the bath side and clamped up to the bath with the tap fixing nuts. Probably best to avoid MDF, as a bit of damp could reduce it to porridge

That could also help if there's an issue with the rigidity of the bath around the taps, as the pipework won't help stabilise things if you're using flexis.

As for the herberts in the merchants... Has anyone else found that even if you can see what you want on the shelf behind them and point to it, or even pick it up and wave it in front of them, they still can't sell it to you because they have checked their computer system and it shows they are out of stock!

 

[Blasphemous]

As for the herberts in the merchants... Has anyone else found that even if you can see what you want on the shelf behind them and point to it, or even pick it up and wave it in front of them, they still can't sell it to you because they have checked their computer system and it shows they are out of stock!

Yep! Little Britain character...

Computer says No!