More DIY

It has been a DIY week, with following the cooker door at reference 1, we had the tap illustrated, which had been in a delicate condition for some months, even rating a mention at reference 2 back in early April.

It had been getting slowly worse, and BH was moved the other day to phone up the spares people that came with it to get a new washer, that is to say two brass units, the top of one of which can be seen in the illustration, at around £20 for two including packing, postage and VAT. Rather more than a good old tap washer.

I was wondering what to do with them, when I suddenly realised that the small hole in base of the handle was actually the hole part of a small allen headed screw. Furthermore, the chap who installed the tap had thought to include a shut off, one of those you work with a half turn with a screwdriver, the sort used for old-fashioned, slot headed screws. Thus inspired, the whole job was done in perhaps 15 minutes.

I now have a spare washer unit for the hot side of the tap and I wonder whether the hot and cold units are the same, apart from one having a blue flash and the other having a red flash. They look the same, but why would you bother colour coding an invisible washer unit if they really were the same?

PS: by forgetting in the first instance to give this post a title, I am reminded of the quirk in the blogger software whereby the name of the file which holds the post, generated from the title when there is one, never changes once the post is first posted. With the resulting rather odd name for this one.

Reference 1: http://www.psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/show-time.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/lateralism.html.