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I am at my wits end.

Does anyone know where I can purchase a monoboc kitchen tap, with washers and not b#r$t3d ceramic valves, that are utter utter shite.

Better now

Mash wrote: Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:43 am Does anyone know where I can purchase a monoboc kitchen tap, with washers

I don't think you can.
It's called progress . . . . they can charge shitloads for a new ceramic cartridge instead of 20p for a new washer!
A pair of new cartridges(hot & cold) usually costs as much as a complete new tap but a new tap costs £4 million (+ vat) for a plumber to come and fit.
Catch twenty two!!!

Exactly. I abhor throwing all the taps & fittings out and starting again.

There has to be a better way. There must be one somewhere.

Have you tried Fleabay?

Mash wrote: Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:16 am I abhor throwing all the taps & fittings out and starting again.

At the end of the day, you just have to be grateful that you can do-it-yourself . . . . . . . . . and save £4 million (+vat)!

My kitchen mixer tap has reached the point that if you turn on, hot or cold, too full/fast,. the mixer head flies off, and you have a fountain, cascading from the ceiling.
It should be higher on my list of priorities as it happened 4 times today!

Robert.

Easydrinker wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:13 am My kitchen mixer tap has reached the point that if you turn on, hot or cold, too full/fast,. the mixer head flies off, and you have a fountain, cascading from the ceiling.
It should be higher on my list of priorities as it happened 4 times today!

At the end of the day on the other hand, it sounds like you are in urgent need of the
£4 million(+vat) experience!

£4 million(+vat) experience!

Lol

Don't worry it's coming!! Mash doin' DIY??

Yeehah. Diy cowboy to the rescue.

We had to get a new shower tap/mixer about 2 years back. The original had rubber washer valves in the taps, but the replacement has ceramic cartridges.

Next door works at a plumbing merchant, he said that we shouldn't be turning them off too hard as that causes wear on the sealing surface much quicker.......... And yes, the ceramic cartridge tap does open/close/on/off much quicker and more accurately, it doesn't need a bit of extra "off pressure" like the original version did.........

Did he also mention that they quack up really quacking quickly and have to be quacking replaced. The only quacking people who benefit are the quacking merchants and the quacking plumbers. Completely quackerz.

My new tap arrives Thursday.
Hallelujah!
The current one has caused much swear-words in the past week.
I do rue the fact that my tap seat re-grinding tool has been out evolved, but hey, according to R.E.M. we put a man on the moon!
Maybe not very carbon neutral, but we can now F*** this planet and find a new one?....

Robert.

Went into wickes to buy a tap a few days ago.... Just shite, came away empty handed!

Seriously considering a rework.

Mash wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 7:53 am Went into wickes to buy a tap a few days ago.... Just shite, came away empty handed!

Reassuring to know that your local Wickes provide customer toilets . . . . . always handy if you get caught short in-store!

That qualifies as a LOL.

Robert.

GinGenie wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 9:38 pm

Mash wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 7:53 am Went into wickes to buy a tap a few days ago.... Just shite, came away empty handed!

Reassuring to know that your local Wickes provide customer toilets . . . . . always handy if you get caught short in-store!

Very good indeed.

Tap delivered a day early.
Just need time to fit it.

Robert.

I am still stuck...

A) buy a Good brand tap preferably with washers, that has spares available.
B) reengineer the sink to take proper taps
C) fit shite and expect to replace

Mash wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 7:00 am I am still stuck...

A) buy a Good brand tap preferably with washers, that has spares available.
B) reengineer the sink to take proper taps
C) fit shite and expect to replace

Option B for me dude....

Ice.

Option D Mash!!........Phone a plumber and pay him with your hard earned.

Gaza. You might be right there.

It could be an "episode" if I get started.

Well after quite some time I have found one... Well two.

BRISTAN do a Regency and Kingsberry mono kitchen tap. Made with washers and o rings, both of which they stock as spares.

I have ordered one... Let's see.