I tried my hand at a spot of plumbing when I got home from work today and I don't think I'll be swapping jobs just yet. I had 3 taps that were leaking. An outside tap that was easy to fix. A tap over the sink in the bathroom that I've now made impossible for anyone to turn on because the problem obviously wasn't the washer. Then I had a shower tap that was dribbling down the wall from the fitting, that I discovered I couldn't get at the gland nut. It was recessed too far into the wall and I didn't have a tube spanner. I ended up just putting it all back together but now it's not leaking, so perhaps I did fix it after all.
My biggest problem was the leaking tap over the hand basin. I bought a whole new tap to put there, but once again didn't have the right tools to get it undone from underneath. I undid a few things and just decided to replace the washer in the end, and after I turned the water back on and came back in to see my handiwork I discovered the bathroom floor flooded because I didn't do the tap up underneath again. I quickly ran out the front and turned the water off again, and screwed everything up nice and tight, and turned the water back on. That's when I discovered that the tap was still leaking, and couldn't be turned off tight enough, so I got the wrench on to it and turned it off so tight that I may never get it undone again. It's a bit of a pain, because now I might have to get the plumber in to fit the new tap I bought, and I was trying to avoid those costs.
Still, as they say, two out of three ain't bad.
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