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Identify Tap.

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  • 18-09-2017 7:28pm
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    eddie
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I had a plumber "fix "this tap ( while doing other work ) and it is now stuck / seized again.. I assume it requires a replacement cartridge but I cant find it anywhere on the net.

    Can anyone identify the make / style it is around 22 years old.

    Thanks

    Eddie


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    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,929 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    I'd imagine that he took it apart cleaned it and put it back together again

    Your plumber will be able to source a install a replacement spindle for you


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    eddie
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭eddie


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I'd imagine that he took it apart cleaned it and put it back together again

    Your plumber will be able to source a install a replacement spindle for you

    He will yes... probably for € 100... when he should have done that originally. I am finished dealing with him..

    I will do it myself when I identify the exact part... if not I will go to the plumbers supply shop and bring the photo..

    But thanks for all your help / advice,.

    Eddie


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    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,929 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    eddie wrote:
    I will do it myself when I identify the exact part... if not I will go to the plumbers supply shop and bring the photo..


    A photo won't help you identify the spindle.

    If you are doing it yourself your best bet is to turn the water off, remove the cap & spindle. Bring the cap & spindle and your trade counter. If they can't match it up try a different trade counter and so on. This is what your plumber would have to do anyway.

    The spindle itself screwing into the tap fitting will be standard so no issues there. Usually the hardest part is getting a spindle that will match the cap.


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    eddie
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭eddie


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    A photo won't help you identify the spindle.

    If you are doing it yourself your best bet is to turn the water off, remove the cap & spindle. Bring the cap & spindle and your trade counter. If they can't match it up try a different trade counter and so on. This is what your plumber would have to do anyway.

    The spindle itself screwing into the tap fitting will be standard so no issues there. Usually the hardest part is getting a spindle that will match the cap.

    THank you for that information, I thought that it would be easy enough to identify... so far no luck, so, as you say, this looks like the only option.

    Appreciated. !


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    eddie
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭eddie


    eddie wrote: »
    THank you for that information, I thought that it would be easy enough to identify... so far no luck, so, as you say, this looks like the only option.

    Appreciated. !

    AS it happened I decided to try the handle to see if the local plumbing store had one, they said the needed the actual tap head, but gave me a loan of the cheapest unit they had to try.

    It worked.. they even advised as it was up stairs if I ran all the other taps on the circuit while changing it, there should ab not much pressure and they wer correct.. changed the cartridge over and fitted handle back on in 5 minutes.


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