[Help] Question for plumbers....

[The Clamp]

We have mixer taps in the kitchen but while the hot tap works no problem, yesterday evening the cold stopped working. When you turn the handle simply nothing comes out. No gurgling or clunking, just dry.
Cold and hot is working everywhere else just this one tap in the kitchen.

Doesn’t appear to be a leak anywhere but just wondering if anyone here knew what this could be?

The tap unit is a strange one as it a sealed unit and I can’t figure out how to get in there.

Thanks in advance people!

 

[Goldstone1976]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Justice]

Plumbers

 

[hans kraay fan club]

We have mixer taps in the kitchen but while the hot tap works no problem, yesterday evening the cold stopped working. When you turn the handle simply nothing comes out. No gurgling or clunking, just dry.
Cold and hot is working everywhere else just this one tap in the kitchen.

Doesn’t appear to be a leak anywhere but just wondering if anyone here knew what this could be?

The tap unit is a strange one as it a sealed unit and I can’t figure out how to get in there.

Thanks in advance people!

Not by any means a plumber, but recently had almost the exact same issue with a kitchen mixer tap. Cold didn't stop altogether, but was limited to a trickle. Stripped and rebuilt the taps - wasted an hour or two of my life. Bought a new set for about £40 and all good.

 

[banjo]

Give it half an hour, they’ll still be the cafe.

 

[schmunk]

It'll be a leaking flugel valve, or possibly the undulator.

Easy fix - hit it with a hammer. Not a mallet, a hammer.

 

[The Clamp]

Not by any means a plumber, but recently had almost the exact same issue with a kitchen mixer tap. Cold didn't stop altogether, but was limited to a trickle. Stripped and rebuilt the taps - wasted an hour or two of my life. Bought a new set for about £40 and all good.

Thanks, I think you’re right that it’s a tap problem and hopefully nothing more sinister, problem with our taps is I can’t figure out how to get into them, they’re strange sealed unit things. Obviously there must be a way but I’d only Frank Spencer it all up if I started messing!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It'll be a leaking flugel valve, or possibly the undulator.

Easy fix - hit it with a hammer. Not a mallet, a hammer.

This didn't work, for mine, sadly.

I was expecting the quick fix the internet had promised me, to earn me MAN POINTS.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Thanks, I think you’re right that it’s a tap problem and hopefully nothing more sinister, problem with our taps is I can’t figure out how to get into them, they’re strange sealed unit things. Obviously there must be a way but I’d only Frank Spencer it all up if I started messing!

Probably a cap / panel on the outside of the knob, that needs prising off with a blade - then you'll access a screw inside that will allow you to take the knob off.

 

[The Clamp]

Probably a cap / panel on the outside of the knob, that needs prising off with a blade - then you'll access a screw inside that will allow you to take the knob off.

Okay , I’ll give it a go. As long as I cut off the stopcock not much can go too wrong I guess. I’ll wait until Mrs TC has departed for work. That way I’ll have a few hours to redecorate the kitchen. And reattach the sink and floorboards before she gets back

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Okay , I’ll give it a go. As long as I cut off the stopcock not much can go too wrong I guess. I’ll wait until Mrs TC has departed for work. That way I’ll have a few hours to redecorate the kitchen. And reattach the sink and floorboards before she gets back

Check first to see if you have an in-line valve in the cold feed directly under the sink taps? Then you just need to shut that, and all your other taps in the house (and toilets, obvs) will not be out of action.

 

[The Clamp]

Check first to see if you have an in-line valve in the cold feed directly under the sink taps? Then you just need to shut that, and all your other taps in the house (and toilets, obvs) will not be out of action.

Good shout. I know where that is. Behind the years of accumulated carrier bags and cleaning products!

 

[Bry Nylon]

Good shout. I know where that is. Behind the years of accumulated carrier bags and cleaning products!

Can you use this thread to give us a running account of events? I sense impending Gold.

 

[The Clamp]

Can you use this thread to give us a running account of events? I sense impending Gold.

Of course. Could you and the brigade be on standby? Cheers.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Post a picture or the tap in question.
Is it a lever tap or normal tap?
Some times (if old tap) they get overtightened and the inner thread will go further than it should and won’t be able to be wound out.

 

[The Clamp]

Post a picture or the tap in question.
Is it a lever tap or normal tap?
Some times (if old tap) they get overtightened and the inner thread will go further than it should and won’t be able to be wound out.

It’s proper old. Whole thing needs replacing but just wanna get it going in the meantime.
Thanks.

 

[happypig]

Check first to see if you have an in-line valve in the cold feed directly under the sink taps? Then you just need to shut that, and all your other taps in the house (and toilets, obvs) will not be out of action.

The isolating valve will start leaking when you turn it, so you'll end up turning all the water off anyway.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The isolating valve will start leaking when you turn it, so you'll end up turning all the water off anyway.

Mine didn't.

 

[The Clamp]

The isolating valve will start leaking when you turn it, so you'll end up turning all the water off anyway.

Noted, to be honest, it’s gonna be easier just to turn the lot off . Don’t need water elsewhere for a while as it’s only me at home today.
Typical eh, get the place to myself for a day and this happens.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Probably a cap / panel on the outside of the knob, that needs prising off with a blade - then you'll access a screw inside that will allow you to take the knob off.

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As above - the plastic discs on the outside will prise off.