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Dealing with dripping shower.

  • 11-06-2017 2:56pm
    #1
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭


    Hoping I can get some advice about a dripping shower.

    It's not electric - it runs off a gas boiler that is on the floor below it (into which water is pumped from a pressurised tank that is on the same floor as the shower).

    There's a picture of it here.

    When it's off, it will still drip away, and more so when a tap is turned on elsewhere in the house and the pump kicks into action.

    If I twist it into an even more 'off' position, it will stop alright, but resume not long after as it settles back into position.

    I'm assuming that it's a washer that needs replacing, but wondering (if that is the case) whether or not it is something simple enough that I (as somebody with no special understand of plumbing at all) could do myself.


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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,189 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Its called a bar mixer. The hot /cold side has a cartridge. The one /off side has a spindle. Most likely the spindle needs replacing


  • #3
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Its called a bar mixer. The hot /cold side has a cartridge. The one /off side has a spindle. Most likely the spindle needs replacing
    Is a spindle the same thing as a flow control cartridge?


  • #4
    CGI_3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭CGI_3


    The spindle does control the flow in this instance, so I suppose you could call it a 'flow control cartridge'.

    Typically these spindles are similar if not the same as the ones you find in regular water taps.

    You could if you felt up to it:

    Isolate the hot and cold water
    Remove the knob
    Brace the body of the unit and unscrew the spindle

    If it looks anything like this, you'll have a good chance finding it at any half decent plumbing supplier.

    419902.jpg


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