Ok, I am not really a "handy" person by any means, and nor is my hubby.

So one of our taps started dripping today. Not loads, but clearly dripping, and it didn't stop when we tighten enough. So (for the first time *ever*) we decided we should change the washer.

Again, really not our thing, but it seems ridiculous to pay a plumber to haul their cookies all the way out to our place to change a stinking washer ...

So I looked up a youtube thing to show us how to change washers, we found out where the water mains were, we got cracking ... and we simply cannot for love nor money loosen the main yellow-y part of the tap!

We got the top off, no worries, the screw, and cleaned the area up a little with some steel wool, but using the wrench to loosen the main thing to get to the washer - no bone whatsoever. It's just too tight.

We even had both of us doing it together, one of us holding onto the spout, the other using the wrench, but nada.

Tried straying some WD-40 around, to see if that helped. But still nothing.

And yes, we checked we were trying to unscrew it the right way

Are we missing something?

Any ideas for really stiff taps?