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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 your Franke Zurich Tap dripping from either (1) the spout (2) the handle or (3) where the spout meets the base. Please note that the Zurich ‘Filter Tap’ takes a different COLD Diverter Cartridge but otherwise, the same guide applies to the Filter Tap version of the Zurich as to the non-filter Version. The […]
Continue Reading →Removing Limescale tip ! This is a tip that I got recently from a Tap Manufacturer where a customer was trying to replace his Valve. He had gotten his handle off but couldn’t remove the shroud (also known as locking nut / fixing nut / hood that covered the valve due to the buildup of […]
Continue Reading →Shipping has now finished for Christmas. New Orders can still be placed but will be dispatched on Thursday 2nd January 2025. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All. Dismiss