Had an interesting Saturday morning.
My daughter rang me and informed me that the water in the apartment above her was leaking water into her home.
5 phone calls later, not a plumber to be had on a Saturday morning.
Grabbed my old tool box and headed down there. Sure enough, the flexible flickmixer hose between the copper pipe and the faucet had split.
A trip to Bunnings later to purchase a new flickmixer and I started to work on replacing it. Of course the standard tube spanners I bought to do the job did not fit so I had to use the needle nosed pliers and eventually got the retaining nuts off the bolts that held the tap to the sink.
Of course the flexible hose supplied with the tap was not long enough to reach the copper fitted pipe.
Fortunately the original hoses were too short too so plumber had created some extension pipes to cover the shortfall. Easy enough to move them to the new fitting.
And I know I am male and I should not read instructions, it takes all the fun out of it. But, I confess. I did. And I learned something that was not in any homeowners manual I have ever been handed when acquiring a property! LOL!
Flexible hoses should be checked every 6 months and replaced at the end of the warranty period! WOW! My mental file clerk quickly returned incidents of a washing machine pipe bursting, another flickmixer pipe bursting under a kitchen sink… …and I realised this manufacturer speaks sooth!
Fortunately the manufacturer of the mixer I bought has a 15 year warranty. Some have 10 and some have only 5 years.
So I thought I’d share it with you.
You’re welcome!