{"id":15174,"date":"2023-07-23T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15174"},"modified":"2023-07-23T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T11:00:23","slug":"tapped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15174","title":{"rendered":"Tapped out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bathroom sink hot and cold taps could do with having new washers fitted. After staring at them for a few days I finally figured out how to get the little darlings apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First you have to undo the very top portion as if it were a nut, to get the little plastic &#8216;H&#8217; (or &#8216;C&#8217;) filling out. Then there&#8217;s a Phillips screw recessed inside that needs to be undone. It took two days to get that far because things just weren&#8217;t cooperating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought achieving these milestones would allow me to get the tap (paddles) lifted up off the body of the tap. Think again, young fool. There&#8217;s no amount of cussing, cajoling, WD40, tapping with a rubber mallet, gently persuading with a hammer that will get the bloody thing to ease upwards. So there&#8217;s something else that needs to happen. But if that&#8217;s the case, why did I have to go through all that previous rigmarole to get just a plastic cap off and a Phillips screw out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748-1170x1560.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230723_115748.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bathroom sink hot and cold taps could do with having new washers fitted. After staring at them for a few days I finally figured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}