We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide
Plumbing query (new tap)
Beenie
Posts: 1,637 Forumite
Hoping that some plumbers will read this!
I am wanting to buy a new kitchen tap to replace the one which is leaking at this very minute. It is one of those ceramic disc types and I don't want another - you cannot get a replacement disc as the possibilities are endless and you never know if you're looking at the right fix. So I want a basic mixer tap with standard washer.
The problem is this - we have an old house with rising mains pressure on cold water and a header tank for the hot (3m above the kitchen). I am told that you need a 'balanced system' these days for many taps to work and that I need to replace my old boiler (perfectly OK by the way) with a combi boiler. This sounds like overkill to me.:o
Does anyone have advice for a confused middle aged lady??
I am wanting to buy a new kitchen tap to replace the one which is leaking at this very minute. It is one of those ceramic disc types and I don't want another - you cannot get a replacement disc as the possibilities are endless and you never know if you're looking at the right fix. So I want a basic mixer tap with standard washer.
The problem is this - we have an old house with rising mains pressure on cold water and a header tank for the hot (3m above the kitchen). I am told that you need a 'balanced system' these days for many taps to work and that I need to replace my old boiler (perfectly OK by the way) with a combi boiler. This sounds like overkill to me.:o
Does anyone have advice for a confused middle aged lady??
0
Comments
-
I'm no expert, Beenie, but it certainly sounds like overkill to me. We have the same water system as you and bought a couple of new taps without having to change to a combi boiler. Mind you, at least one of the taps has a ceramic disc. Make sure you check that the tap you buy is okay for low pressure systems.
It seems to be hard to find the old kind these days. It took me long enough to find a decent dual flow tap for our kitchen as most of them are now European-style mono flows.0 -
A lot of makes of ceramic disc type taps are made to take standard type tap bodies (ie the ones with the spindle that moves the rubber washer up and down). To check, if you remove the tap fitting and look inside the body of the tap you may well see the seating that the normal type tap washer would fit down onto, if this seating is there then you can try sourcing adapt a tap type replacement tap heads, you will need to check that the thread on the adapt a tap matches the ceramic type that you have. These replacement type adapt a taps are maybe in around a tenner per pair and should give you a minimum of 5 years life.Norn Iron Club member No 3530
-
toolstation and screwfix still sell the basic mixers and taps for kitchens.
i bought a standard mixer tap for 25 quid last month. from screwfix.Get some gorm.0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 354.3K Banking & Borrowing
- 254.4K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 455.4K Spending & Discounts
- 247.3K Work, Benefits & Business
- 604K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 178.4K Life & Family
- 261.5K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.7K Read-Only Boards