Laundry tap only rotating once or twice around the threaded pipe

[dchur]

Hey guys,

I must be going for a record for the number of threads about my laundry project here. Appreciate all your replies and effort.

While I wait for the tile adhesive to dry before applying the grout, I wanted to test out the taps and seals.

This picture is of the laundry sink tap pipe. My problem here is when I put on the plumbers tape to seal it I can only rotate about 1.5times around before it gets too tight. Even using no thread tape it only rotates 1.5 times. The added problem here with only rotating that much is even with the dress flange on the tap, there's about 4mm gap between it and the tiles.

Do I need to clean the threads since they seem to be stopping the tap from rotating any further? I'm wary of causing any damage, because that could be costiler.

Thanks.

[MitchellMc]

"a few mm gap" that's easily solved with some black silicone @dchur.

Mitchell

[DIYGnome]

Hello @dchur didn't the spout come with a backing plate? 🤔

There are always these (see link) plus I have encountered plastic spacer rings for behind backing plates before but am unsure where you would obtain those, generally if the spacer plate is insufficient... I trim the threaded pipe.

https://www.bunnings.com.au/kinetic-65mm-1-2-black-stainless-steel-round-cover-plate_p4790560