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Leaking Taps

Leaking Taps

Humans sometimes do not take the extra effort to do something today that can save them a lot of time and effort tomorrow. How many leaking taps are in your home at present? How long have they been that way? When will you fix them, and whose responsibility you think it is to fix them - landlord, teenage son, hubby?

Taps Leaking

We don't have any consistantly leaking taps in our home. Occasionally if somebody doesn't turn the water off all the way then, naturally, we have a faucet that is leaking. When something like that occurs, my step dad is the one who fixes it all.

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We don't have any leaking taps in our house either. Well, we did, once. Back when I was maybe 8 years old my sister left the water running in the bathroom and left while it was on, so my father turned it off. He turned it off so tightly that we had to ask him to turn it back on. We couldn't use that sink for a week.

Taps Leaking

We have a leaky tap in our kitchen that drives us crazy on occasion, but do not know how to fix it. Any hints?

Taps Leaking

No leaking taps in our current home. Last place we lived in had about 2, and it led to noise in the pipes. I remember closing the faucets as tightly as I could and the leak would stop momentarily, but return by the next day.

Leaking Taps

I have 2 leaky taps at the moment. I did have 3 until a couple of weeks ago when one of them finally got too much to bear. I do all my own home maintenance, but unfortunately I am a very busy procrastinator, and things tend to get left until the very last moment. I guess the longest dripping tap we have had has been around 4 years, as it was dripping when we shifted in, and I still haven't got too it. Mind you, this tap is over a bath and it doesn't make a lot of noise, so it's not too bad.

Leaking Taps

I try to fix a leaky tap ASAP as it costs me money in wasted water .... did I mention I am a cheap sate?

Malexander :

You likely broke your tap by cranking down so tightly on it! The tap has a seat that sits on a rubber seal and when overtightened the seat cuts through the rubber and hits the metal on the other side. When that happens the seat gets bent and would have to be replaced. My father reamed us kids if we overtightened a tap and if it started to drip the guilty party got to fix it.....

Dimavo if you still have that leaky tap shut off the water supply to it and remove the tap and look for a rubber ring in it it likely needs replaced. Most hardware stores sell the item.

Here are some great instructions from magnetmart.com

https://www.magnetmart.com.au/images/you_can2_taps.pdf

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My bathroom tap is leaking very bad right now. As a matter of fact since we moved here that tap was already giving trouble (never completly closed). A friend of ours came to check the toilet (that was giving trouble too) and he checked the tap but still leaking and now is leaking a lot.