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Doug wrote:Throw both of those conical washers away, buy some plumbers mait, roll a sausage of PM, put it on the underside of the flared lip of the waste, push the waste into the basin, run another sausage of PM around the waste where it exits the basin, putthe flat plastic washer over the thread & then tighten the whole thing up with the plastic nut.
DON’T use silicone mastic
https://www.screwfix.com/p/evo-stik-plu ... GwoddMAKKg
TrimTheKing wrote:You're not going to get enough pull between the bit above the bath and the bit below I wouldn't have though. Sounds like a recipe for a leak to me. I would be trying to get hold of a few more washers to pack it out...
TrimTheKing wrote:You're not going to get enough pull between the bit above the bath and the bit below I wouldn't have though. Sounds like a recipe for a leak to me. I would be trying to get hold of a few more washers to pack it out...
Doug wrote:Yep, I make most wastes in with plumbers mait, you could do with a plastic washer between the bath & the lock nut like you did on the basin. If you’ve not got one that size you could cut one from a plastic lid.
Doug wrote:You can cut a little off the nut on the trap which will ease things just cut it as square as possible
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