How to fit or replace traditional basin taps

Thankyou so much for this tutorial, I appreciated you showing us under the sink as you did as my taps are secured to copper pipes like this too and not the bendy tube, i was worried how i'd be able to change the taps but seeing you do it gives me some more confidence to try, appreciate it

Every time I install traditional basin or bath taps, I always use the Fix-A-Tap kit, as it centres the tap in the hole and also means that the tap should never come loose in its lifetime. I wrote this article decades ago -www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/how-to/taps/replacing-t… I might not have a video ready for next Sunday, as I’m busy working on site next week! I hope everyone has a great Sunday 😉

Thank you so much for getting under the sink with clear pictures. I was searching how to unscrew the part underneath and your video was the best!

I had not heard of Fix-a-tap before - I was expecting there to be glue or something! Good video as always.

Fantastic job filming under that basin! If only you could see that well when you were working on them. I usually have to do it blind and in the dark with water dripping in my eyes. The camera makes it look a lot easier than it is.

We had our local housing crew fit a wet room and they deffo botched up the install of the tap's on our new sink. So of course knowing what i know they came off asap and reinstalled properly which illuminated the slight leak they left me with. I did not know that this kind of kit for fixing tap's in place properly existed. so thanks for bringing this to my attention. ive got one of those flip head basin wrenches but couldn't get it in to loosen the brass nut (some kind of weird fitting of the sink prevented me getting it in there), Ended up getting one of those box spanners which worked a treat for sure. bob on with the video buddy.

Impressive, being able to work and film at the same time. I've change as few taps in my day and can only imagine how difficult that was.

hi I was having a problem with my makita battery charger and I found your video on line and done what you said and it fixed it, thanks very much for posting that video

Never seen seperate hot/cold outlets always combined into a single outlet here in California, lol. Interesting, thanks.

You did an excellent job filming that. Apart from a kitchen sink they are the most awkward place to do anything. Thanks👍

Very simple and impressive way of demonstrating style 😊👍

great video ,handy tips cheers

Thanks, taps always useful subject for home (where possible) fixers.

Chez's voice going up when he's straining. :) I always buy a brass nut also, as I seem to break the plastic ones.

As a plumber I have changed out many taps over the years. I don,t believe I have seen those fix a tap kits before. I shall have to get some and see if they are any better than the split Klick washers I normally use to centre the taps. I also like to use brass backnuts. Excellent practice to also change the fibre washers too. Really good video. One thing that could catch some people out though is on really old taps the thread tails are longer than the new taps creating a gap. Although this is increasingly rare

👍👍👍 Great video. Thank you

Nothing like a good tap video on a sunday..... good stuff.. N x

You got off easy removing the old tap with that one, other day I did one, and the plastic nut was difficult to turn and the old tap was spinning with it... Access on it was really awkward. In the end I drilled a lil drill bit through it from above to lock the nut in place, held drill, and literally span the tap from above :) Happy days

I had a spindle which has pretty much seized up and was told to replace the tap. Watched the video to get a better understanding of what the process is.

Thanks for this I wasn’t aware of this product