Plumbing does my titties in

[IDCHAPPY]

I wish I'd never agreed to change those 1958 set of taps rammed in at the back of a cast iron bath

 

[Shinydaz]

I hear you ! Bath taps can be a total pig to change.

 

[andrewsm]

Complete pig of a job as Im a plumber. They were prob put on with mastic which is now solid so threads will be stuck plus fittings seized. I use a blowtorch on them to soften mastic etc. Still easy a hour or so job.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Had to multi tool the fecker underneath... taps done well at 59 years old

 

[dj_yt]

When I moved into my current house, I had a number of ancient taps with all kinds of problems - I was literally trying to just change some washers. Spent hours trying to get things unthreaded. Admitted defeat, felt like a fool and called a plumber which seems daft for few washers.

He came round and said the previous owner had asked him to fix the same things and there was nothing he could do but replace the entire taps. I've had the entire bathroom replaced since.

 

[tin]

Toilet flush handle seized on my 1950s-ish bog. Tried to free up with wd40 and a wire brush, no dice, tried to unscrew the nut holding the whole assembly to the cistern to either free or replace. Realised some doofus already tried that probably about 20 years ago and f**ked it up entirely. Now it's loose in the cistern yet simultaneously stuck there forever. Whole new toilet required. I hate plumbing too, especially on old sh*t.

 

[andrewsm]

The old stuff lasts as made right but years later they are cows to service sometimes. Most times I replace with inferior new stuff which last almost as long as the warranty ... but not quite lol