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Basic stuff for most of you no doubt but we all have our ignorances.
This drain off is leaking (from the end of the bit water is meant to come out of when in operation).
It's also basically pointless as I doubt you'd get a hose on it, although I suppose you could try tightening it into the female fitting a bit to improve the angle. But anyway the job is to stop it leaking.
So I imagine you'd all just let off the pressure and/or drain down, unscrew the works, change the washer re-assemble and job's a good un. Right?
Or would some of you try tightening the little square nut first? Could that actually make it worse?
As literally no job is guaranteed to go to plan I like to know what can go wrong and what plan B and C is.
Possible problems I can imagine are: The new washer may not be the exact same size as the old and it'll still weep. The old washer wasn't removed before soldering and is so baked/melted onto the seating you can't get it smooth enough to give the new washer a flat surface. The works won't unscrew properly and suddenly you're in a worse situation and having to lift up the floor to try cut pipework. You get the works out but they're buggered and so you try and nick the works of another drain off but they don't match / the threads don't match as the in situ one is very old. Etc etc
So what's the deal? What would you do? What could go wrong and what would you do about that?
Thanks
This drain off is leaking (from the end of the bit water is meant to come out of when in operation).
It's also basically pointless as I doubt you'd get a hose on it, although I suppose you could try tightening it into the female fitting a bit to improve the angle. But anyway the job is to stop it leaking.
So I imagine you'd all just let off the pressure and/or drain down, unscrew the works, change the washer re-assemble and job's a good un. Right?
Or would some of you try tightening the little square nut first? Could that actually make it worse?
As literally no job is guaranteed to go to plan I like to know what can go wrong and what plan B and C is.
Possible problems I can imagine are: The new washer may not be the exact same size as the old and it'll still weep. The old washer wasn't removed before soldering and is so baked/melted onto the seating you can't get it smooth enough to give the new washer a flat surface. The works won't unscrew properly and suddenly you're in a worse situation and having to lift up the floor to try cut pipework. You get the works out but they're buggered and so you try and nick the works of another drain off but they don't match / the threads don't match as the in situ one is very old. Etc etc
So what's the deal? What would you do? What could go wrong and what would you do about that?
Thanks
