00:13 Shane Conlan: Gidday, knuckleheads!
Uncle Knackers here.
The cook's been complaining for weeks about fixing up the leaky tap in the backyard.
Now, personally, I don't know what she's complaining about.
Yeah, she could be right.
It is leaking a little bit.
As the old saying goes, "Happy wife, happy life."
Wise words.
Let's fix that tap.
And the good news is it's a really easy job.
So let's do it.
00:44 SC: To change the washer in this tap, it's gonna take us six really easy steps.
First step, is you're gonna turn the water mains off and the water mains can be generally
found in the front yard.
So, let's go and do that first.
We found the mains in the front yard, so what we need to do now is turn the water off.
You do that via this tap or a stopcock, and they can be a little bit hard to turn off
sometimes, so I like to use a shifter or a spanner or something just to get a bit more
leverage and turn the water off like that.
There you go, that was pretty simple.
Let's get back to that tap.
01:27 SC: Step two, turn the tap on and drain all the excess water out.
01:40 SC: Step number three is, is that once all the water is drained out of the tap, we
need to remove this spindle from the tap.
And what happens in, especially in the backyard, is over a period of time, you can get a bit
of corrosion built up in this unit, so it can be a bit tricky getting this spindle off
because it is a bit tight.
So what you can do, or what I like to do, is just get your hammer and just gently tap
around that unit just to break up the corrosion.
Then get your shifter or spanner, put it on that locknut around that spindle like that,
then grab another shifter or set of Stillsons, or some multi-grips, and put it on the tap
itself to stop the tap from spinning or twisting when I'm undoing this spindle.
So just give it a bit of a pull here.
There you go.
Spindle is loose.
Just take it off like that and inside the tap is your washer which sits inside the spindle.
Generally, when you have a leaky tap there's some damage to this washer.
So let's do step four and replace the washer.
03:14 SC: Step four, replacing the washer.
It's as simple as taking the old one out and putting a new one in.
Simple as that.
And if you're unsure as to what size washer to put back in, duck on down to the hardware
shop and the boys there should be able to help you out.
03:32 SC: Let's do Step five.
Step number five, you've put your new washer in, now it's just a simple matter of putting
this spindle back into the tap.
Screw it down like that.
That's it.
Tighten it off like that.
It's nice and firm.
That's it.
And then make sure you turn the tap off because we're about to go down to the front yard and
turn those mains back on.
So let's do that.
04:09 SC: Final step.
Step number six, is to turn the mains back on like that.
Okay, let's go and check out that tap.
Let's give this bad boy a test.
Let's turn the tap on.
Turn him off.
Pull out my piece of cardboard for the cardboard drip test.
Look at that.
Not a drip in sight.
04:42 SC: Great tip, knackers!
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Till next time, peace.