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[Wife shouts] 'Lurgs wake up there's water leaking in the kitchen'.
My Wife's just shouted out and there's water all over the kitchen floor so I go down to fix it
and of course the Puppy wakes up and Daisy puppy wants her breakfast so before we get started
on the leak in the kitchen you need to feed the puppy
'hello Daisy' oh bye, right let's get cracking! And underneath the kitchen sink here we've got
water in the grooves of the tile so it's made its way onto the floor and down through the
grooves on the tile so we've got a leak somewhere underneath the kitchen sink
let's open the door underneath the kitchen sink and the first thing you need to do
is obviously clear out everything that's in that cupboard under the sink right so I've done that
put a towel down because it's wet now it looks like it may have been damp for quite a while
but now the drip has suddenly got worse because it actually smells a bit musty in here as well
now I've already put a tray down to catch the drips and the drip is coming from this pipe here
we've got two pipes we've got a cold water feed and a hot water feed into the mixer tap
above now in ours you can isolate the water by using these shut off valves here I've traced
the pipework up to the sink and it's definitely the hot water pipe that's leaking what I'm going
to do now is I'm going to turn the tap on so we've got some water flow coming out of the tap
then I'm going to go down to the pipework and then isolate the water using one of these valves,
on mine what you need is a flat bladed screwdriver you may have a stopcock or an actual lever or a
tap which you can turn and what you're doing is you're turning that a quarter turn 90 degrees
and that shuts the water off and just to prove that it has done that if we go
back to the sink above the water has stopped running so I'm now going to turn the tap off
but obviously I want to find out where the leak is coming from so I'm going to turn the water
back on it's a really good idea to find out how to turn the water off because if you have a problem
and you create another leak you want to be able to isolate the water very quickly because you
don't want to flood your kitchen now try and find out where that leak is coming from, and there's a
link above now about how to fix sticking curtains on your curtain rails really handy tip that is,
now water will always drip from the lowest point that it can find
so I'm just going to trace it all the way up the pipe work
now this is the prime suspect now this flexible tube here
is not in great condition this needs replacing pretty soon
if I put my finger there look we've got lots of water coming out the top now all that means is
this nut just needs tightening up if the leak was coming from the bottom that obviously means you'd
be tightening this bottom nut and you'd be tightening that clockwise as if you're underneath
it facing towards you it's a good idea when you're tightening that top nut to keep a hold of the nut
at the bottom use a pair of pliers for this if you haven't got a pair of pliers you can actually hold
on to the pipe work just to keep it nice and still but ideally if you've got another spanner then get
that on that bottom nut and just hold it still and then on the top nut you're tightening it clockwise
but don't go crazy literally just a tiny amount of turn on this just so you can try and stop that
leak if you go too crazy you might damage the thread and you might cause more problems now if
you haven't got another spanner you can just hold that pipework as I said earlier and you're just
turning this until it stops leaking you can see we've already got lots of plumbers mate paste on
that thread so it should just tighten up and stop the leak and earlier I showed you how to isolate
the water and that's just a really good idea because if you have a problem and you've got water
going everywhere you know how to turn the water off very quickly that's all now nicely tightened
up I've probably only turned it about 30 to 40 degrees I'm just running the tap here just so
we've got some water flow then take a tissue and wrap it around the joint where you had the leak
and then just monitor that for a little while just to see if you've got any further leaks if
you've got any further slight leaks you can just try tightening it up a tiny bit more
but with this one looks like we've cured the leak
absolutely fantastic! If you haven't managed to cure the leak then it's time to call a
plumber! And there's a link above now about how to keep your washing machine hygienically fresh
and talking of hygienically fresh I need to clean this under sink cupboard and dry it out properly
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