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A bath tap is seized solid. I't's in a guest bathroom so doesn't get used every day.
I knew it was getting stiff so now I need to get the tap head off to clean/change the valve.
Have changed valves and washers many times but this is different
Have removed the colour indicator, underneath which is a plain black housing into which it locates.
Have removed that, expecting to find a retaining screw, but all I have is a very small hole into which I can only fit a bradawl.
That hits what I presume is the top of the spindle but no screw head in there!
I wondered if it is just "push on" but all attempts to lever it up have failed.
Water here is very hard, but wouldn't expect to find silicates above the valve!
Any experience and advice please?
I knew it was getting stiff so now I need to get the tap head off to clean/change the valve.
Have changed valves and washers many times but this is different
Have removed the colour indicator, underneath which is a plain black housing into which it locates.
Have removed that, expecting to find a retaining screw, but all I have is a very small hole into which I can only fit a bradawl.
That hits what I presume is the top of the spindle but no screw head in there!
I wondered if it is just "push on" but all attempts to lever it up have failed.
Water here is very hard, but wouldn't expect to find silicates above the valve!
Any experience and advice please?
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not may plumbers up at 03:04
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think youre gonna need new tap heads here.
try unscrewing the whole tap head,and get it all off as one. I had the same problem,this worked for me. new pair of heads was £12. don't forget to hold the tap part so that not all the tap moves. good luck |
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earliest I can fit you in is next July... will be around on the 25th between 07:30 and 19:00 so please stay in all day and there'll be the £200 call out fee plus parts and labour. See you next year.
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Thanks for the kind offer.
My multi task handyman is away for a few weeks, which is the only reason I'm looking at it myself. Thanks carpet1..... The tap has hot and cold from the same base so isn't going to move. Problem is that it won't move at all, even by my son's brutal methods of hitting it with a hammer (I didn't know otherwise I would have stopped him)! This is James, who broke the thumb screw on my much used marking gauge, that I had for thirty seven years. Also who took a slice out of my mallet, of the same vintage, by hitting something metal, and cut the lead of my hedge trimmer, that I got in the very early eighties! |
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That small hole - check that the other tap is the same.
It might be an unusual fitting that comes off if you know how. |
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It's over Flo
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Just been for another look at it, and hadn't realised that the dozy bugger never thought of protecting it, so the chrome is damaged!!!!
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Seems to run in the family!
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Hey you naydam.....PLUG IT!!!
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Ok....I had to use everyday experience and common sense.
I "superglued" a 20mm hex nut to the tap head. Now with a suitable spanner I could open and close the tap, which I did many times till it was perfect. I then filled the recess of the tap head, where the hex nut was glued, with pure acetone and left it to do the business. Job done! |