KITCHEN ISLAND IDEAS HOWDENS
- hello and welcome to today'splumberparts.co.uk video. today, i'm gonna show you how to change a single-pillar kitchen tap. and it's gonna be reallyhandy for you guys to learn to do it cause it couldsave you a load of money on getting a plumber out to do it himself. so as you can see, this one's leaking. right, so here is thenew tap, we've got the metal fittings here thatactually came with the tap.
this is the rubber and metal cap that go on the bottom of the tap. these are the two screwsthat we're gonna use to tighten the tap up and the nuts with it. and this is the tapitself, nice and clean. right, remove everythingfrom out under the sink. get it all out of the way,you don't want anything in your way when you'retrying to do this job. these are the two pipes that are supplying
the hot and cold to thetap, that's up there. right at the top, youcan see that just there. anyway, we turn these two valves off here to stop water supply, then we go above to make sure the water's turned off. once we've turned the water off, just go back to thetap quickly, open it up and make sure there thatthere's no water coming out. that would indicate then that you've
successfully turned the water off and you can safely removethe water supply to the tap. now we're gonna want toremove the two flexible pipes from the valves that have been turned off. do that using a pair of gripsand an adjustable spanner. always take your time doingthis bit because you are gonna be in quite a tight space. but persist, you'll get them undone, and then we'll be ready tomove on to the next stage.
just watch me do it. get your adjustables on here,and then loosen that off. that's nice and loose already. i'm gonna just take that off by hand. alright remove that all together. now you can see now what i mean by having to take off this bolt here. if this whole screw hadn't come out, you'd a had to unwound this bolt
all the way down this thread, in really a very tight space. but if that doesn't happenyou have to have a go with your miniatureadjustables to get that off. now we should be able to get back up here and find that the tap's nice and loose. there we go. now we take off the flexiblehoses off from the bottom. just grab them likethat, and twist them off.
do that to both of them. once you've removedyour other flexible hose you should have enough room toget this one out, like that. and there's your old tap removed. now is usually the time that i get a scouringpad on this bit here, and give it a bit of a cleanbefore you put the new tap on. now we're gonna prepare thenew tap for installation. first thing we do, is weget each one of these studs
and put them in, windingthem about four, five turns, one, two, three, four, five. then we get each one ofour flexible hoses here and screw them in. they create a water-tight seal cause they've got a little rubber o-ring right there on them, just there. all they need to do is go injust like that, nice and easy. you'll have a small rubber flange bit
that goes on the bottom. that's what stops any water that's actually on the surface of the sink from going down where thetap actually connects. so it causes a nice,water-tight seal there. that will all get clamped up by these two. now these two bitsactually go under the sink. so they'll pop out ofit like so, just there. if you imagine my thumb is the sink.
and then you'll have your two screws go on there like that,and they will, they are what clamps the tap to the sink. first things first, we feed ourtube pipes through the hole. sit it down. so once you've got the tap in the position that you want it in, we cango back down, under the sink and put these two lovely nuts on. so as you can see, here are the two nuts
that we're gonna screw toonce we get our two clamps on. i got the rubber one onfirst so that's on there, that's on the sink side. so put the rubber one onfirst, then the metal. and push the rubber as far as you can. you have to keep your hand there, while you actually start one of the nuts. once they're both tightened up we can then reconnect the water connexions
test for leaks, andthen test for operation. it doesn't matter which way they go round on this particular tap. cause i can swap roundthe hot and cold indicator very easily. give each one of thosejust a slight nip up with your adjustables. we should be ready toturn the water back on and test for leaks.
right, so the water's back on. got nothing drippin' downhere, which is great. nothing drippin' up there. well we'll turn the tap on itself. so, there we go, that's how you instal a new single-pillar kitchen tap. sometimes you can buy specialist tools that will actually doup the nuts on the bolts of the metal tubes better,smaller than the cap for those,
that can be really handy when doing this. if not, you have to usethe adjustable spanner-lock i showed you earlier on. i hope you've found thevideo that we've done today has helped you out. please, stay dry andi'll see ya next time. hold tight. - [voiceover] plumberparts.co.uk honest reviews and advice.
