Hi all, great site - wish I'd found it before I started my bathroom!

Anyway, bathroom sink has pop-up waste and has been leaking. Following advice from someone, I took it to bits, dried it all off and reassembled as told to with plenty of silicone.

I'm a bit worried now though as I've read that you shouldn't overtighten nuts and I screwed on the large plastic nut that went underneath the sink to hole the waste on, really tightly. Hand tight then probably 3 (I think) quarter turns with tool.

Silicone is almost dry now so not easy to take off and redo. Is this an issue I need to worry about? I haven't checked for leaks as I was waiting until silicone was completely dry.

Does it really make a difference if the plastic nut is too tight? What would happen? Do I need to be concerned or am I worrying for nothing?

Cheers for any advice.

yeah with the addition of the silicon as a lubricant while tightening you're probably fine. The biggest "overtighten" problem comes with compression fittings on copper, if you overtighten those the olive(compression ring) can actually dig too far into the copper and burst it!

plastic nuts on basin wastes are a total bastard too tho! lol


btk