How to stop a dripping tap with the Monument 450P Tap Reseater

The Monument 450P is a Tap Re-seater for ½ inch and ¾ inch taps. Basins are normally fitted with ½ inch taps and baths with ¾ inch but there will be other situations where these taps are fitted, E.g. an outside tap in the garden. If a tap leaks it wastes water and the most common reason for this is that the tap washer has worn out, but renewing that will not always solve the dripping tap problem, as it is likely that the seat of the tap is worn as well. The Monument 450P comes with 2 parallel bushes each with a coarse and fine thread to suit the two different threads normally encountered on taps (BS1010 and BS5412). The user chooses the correct thread on the bushes and screws this into the tap body and then chooses a suitable cutter that will cover entirely the seat being cut. Three different cutters are supplied – 17, 19 and 25mmdiameter – 11/16in, 3/4in and 1in. Made in Britain Transcription: There's nothing more infuriating than having a dripping tap, and it's not always necessary to replace the tap because we can reseat it. So if we strip the tap down, having turned off the water obviously ... We'd be in a mess if we didn't. We can take out the jumper. This is the washer we need to replace. But if we're replacing that, we also need to make sure that the brass seat is nice and smooth and there's good contact between the rubber washer and the brass seat. To do that, we use a Monument 450P DIY tap reseating tool, which is supplied with a handle and two double-ended bushes and three cutters. First, we need to select the cutter. We need to select the bush that fits into our tap, which is the smaller one here. It's actually supplied with bushes for BS 1010 taps and BS 5412, and suitable for reseating 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch taps. So having established that's the bush, we need to make sure that our cutter will go through the gap. We're going to use the smaller one, which in this case is the 17 mm. We engage that, make sure that's the right one. Pop that on there. Screw on the cutter. Insert the cutter into the body. Screw in the bush. The bush now ensures that the cutter is perpendicular to the brass seat that we want to cut. Then applying light pressure, we can now reseat the brass. Take that back out. We fitted our new washer. We can now reassemble the tap very easily. There is a small plastic fitting that's supplied with this. The purpose is to stop it rolling off the packaging. However, it's also very good for holding the jumper unit while you're working. And that's now solved our problem of the leaking taps. That's the Monument 450P DIY tap reseating tool.