Archive for Plumbing Guides
Your own Old Valve is different from the Valve you ordered: If you remove your own Valve and you find that it is different from the Valve you purchased from us, before putting your own Valve back in, Pictures: please take pictures of YOUR valve beside the New Valve and send them to us sales@tapsandsinksonline.co.uk […]
Continue Reading →There can be nothing more frustrating than fitting a Valve to find the new Valve Leaking. The understandable assumption is that the New Valve is faulty. However this is rarely the case. Valves are precision engineered and manufactured in large quantities for new Taps. So if one valve was faulty all the new Taps that […]
Continue Reading →To remove the standard screw in antisplasher (also known as Aerator or Perlator) from your Kitchen Tap : Take an adjustable spanner. Cover your antisplasher with a cloth so that you don’t mark or damage it. Turn anticlockwise to loosen. If as sometimes happens with an old / broken Aerator (Antisplash) that part of it […]
Continue Reading →If SMR is stamped on Valve This is a great starting point because we supply only Genuine SMR Valves. We can recommend the best replacement Valve to fit your Tap. We will send you a link to purchase the correct Valve once we receive the information detailed below. If you have removed your Valve then […]
Continue Reading →Usually your Kitchen Tap is dripping from either (1) the spout, (2) less common is the handle and (3) where the spout meets the base. If it is dripping from the Spout or Handle then if your Tap has two or three levers it is most likely that you need to change the valves (one, […]
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