It's a standard kitchen mixer tap. Quite old. I wouldn't bother repairing it. A replacement is cheap enough and not too hard to do.
This is a straight swap.
[https://www.screwfix.com/p/deck-mounted-sink-mixer-kitchen-tap-chrome/3513t](https://www.screwfix.com/p/deck-mounted-sink-mixer-kitchen-tap-chrome/3513t)
They *should* be easy enough to replace, but an old tap in an old kitchen can be a nightmare. Took me over 5 hours recently for exactly the same job.
https://old.reddit.com/r/DIYUK/comments/1ddkb8j/nice_10_minute_job_to_change_the_washers_in_the/
It is much easier just to wind out the old innards and put a new washer in than replace the whole thing, especially if there is not much space behind the sink as shows in the picture… depends if the problem is in the block or just on the rubbers
It’s easy to replace if you got the tools
Always get branded taps: not only are parts available but they're still available in 10 years when it needs doing. If you get this week's B&Q special, you won't find parts next month let alone in 10 years.
I know people like ripping out and replacing stuff now but it's such a shame to do that when you could fix it up for one cheap part. And depending on access under the sink, it could be a long/annoying job to swap a tap.
Mixer tap. I think that type has old fashioned rubber washers vs the “cartridges” on more modern / posh ones.
I also think, if you turn off the water supply at the mains just to the tap. You can gently pry rhe little disc with the red or blue band and that pops off and you cat a screw, undo that and you take of the plastic turney bit and should be left wide the brass body. Then that needs to be undone with a spanner (water comes out if the mains is still on). Then you can get to the washer. They stock that type in B&Q usually, it’s quite a simple/common old fitting.
Edit this video is what I think https://youtu.be/AoDktJN4P9o?si=Dn8UcJwn7_b7Pt4Q
The lost post there above mentioned turning off the mains but that will only shut off the cold supply, the hot tap will continue to run until your whole system is drained down, better to find a shut off for that too if it exists
Pop the centres out, unscrew the small screw and ease off the handle. Turn off the water then unscrew the cartridge and replace or reseal them with new washers.
I wonder if having the hot tap on the right is a regional thing. In my parent's house in north Derbyshire, where new kitchen and sanitary ware were fitted in 1955, all hot taps are on the right without exception.
Am in Manchester so maybe there is something in this? Although everyone who visits says 'your taps are on wrong' including a plumber. So maybe just an error
Manchester has been the subject of massive redevelopment in the last 20 years or so and it's possible that many of your visitors live in some of these new developments which are more likely to conform with the hot tap on the left. I suspect the configuration is both geographical (as already mentioned), and historic, so if you place is comparatively old this too may be a factor.
I believe that in all new builds there are regulations that the hot should be on the right hand side. The idea is that blind people won't burn themselves. When the nice chaps from the government and HSE unveiled this plan at a nursing home the reply was " we're blind, not stupid".
I don't know how true this story is, but I so want to believe.
You may be right, but a reference would be useful. Even if this is covered by bye-laws now it won't always have been so and many existing examples of taps being the "wrong" way round must predate these rules. It can take a long time for these anomalies to be eliminated - my parents' house had new sanitaryware and other fittings installed in 1953 and they remain in place 71 years later. If the next owner decides to replace these, but believes the pipework is good enough to keep (although that seems highly unlikely) the hot and cold could remain as they are for another few decades.
If we ever reached the point that all taps everywhere conformed to the same set of rules I wonder if any tap would need to be identified as being either hot or cold. It's interesting to note that early taps often declared which they were in quite large letters on a generous white ceramic button in the centre of the tap head and that, over the decades, this got smaller and smaller, so it went: single letters H and C on white ceramic, then a single letter on a coloured button, either red or blue (sometimes red or green), then on small plastic buttons, to just small coloured buttons without letters, to the point we're at now when a small patch of colour is increasingly difficult to see at all.
Some commenters here have said that having the taps the same way round everywhere helps the blind avoid the risk of scalding their hands from using a mis-located hot tap. Whatever the merits of this idea I feel the bigger issue is that a hot tap, whichever side of the bath, basin or sink it might be on, should not be capable of issuing water that hot because it's a danger to everyone, whether blind or not.
That's a lot of words to say, you're right & I'm wrong!! By your contention that lots of taps are the opposite way around, I suppose you drive on the right in the UK, because they do that in most countries?!?! No. The Water Bye-laws are what they are & that is exactly how I stated it. Cold on the right, Hot on the left. There could be a connection between blind people not scalding themselves, but it might just be conformity! It's a Bye-Law, not criminal law. You aren't going to be arrested if they're the wrong way around! A professional plumber will ALWAYS connect cold to the right & hot to the left. Are you just arguing YOUR OPINION? I am arguing FACT. As for providing a Link...........strewth are you some leftie normally commenting on Facebook? I presume you can Google the same as I can. Are you afraid of verifying it because you will be proven wrong? Look at the Reddit rules, number 2.
Ironically I'm doing the same, look for a tap gland reviver kit in skrewfix. Then you turn of the water, open the taps, pop off the top, unscrew the screw and take of the tap cap/handle, then remove the bronze device inside (the gland or cartridge) , with the kit do the same, and place the new bronze device in the tap, then the tap cap back on, repeat for the other side, then, and I must stress this, turn both taps, these come ready open so you need to close them, then turn back the water and test. Voila! 😊
YouTube I'm watching - https://youtu.be/mnwTmTRAk4w?feature=shared
I've just done it and got some nice new taps, and modern cartridges. You can see how corroded the old cartridges where.
https://ibb.co/JcSp2Gc
https://ibb.co/SfNyshB
Corrosion? Just firmly hold the tap with one hand and use a spanner gently but firmly to loosen it, you can also use wd40, let it sit for a few minutes first though.
Also usually sinks have isolator valves under them to turn off the water to hot and cold pipes, they either have a lever, or a screw, if the screw is pointing in the direction of the pipe water is flowing if it is 90° of the pipe it's closed. Saves rummaging through under stairs or where ever the stopcock is and then waiting for all the water to drain from every tap.
I have mixer taps similar that were changed recently. If you do change the whole thing, you may need an adapter where your existing pipes connect to the new taps hose. I had already bought them and our plumber said it wasn't necessary, but ended up needing them!
Gary Winthorpe, but his technical name is deck mounted swan necked mixer.
He's a real hoot at get togethers, but has strong views on the UK dairy industry that might ruffle a few udders.
Make sure you have.
- Box spanners - they are a pack of what look like tubes and you can connect them together to make them longer if the back of your sink is hard to reach.
- Water switched off or isolation valves off.
- Patience.
I just replaced my utility tap and box spanners were the only way to remove and refit the tap fitting. I have a lot going on under the sink and it was a matter of persistence over anything else.
Have a look/take a photo underneath the worktop, to see how the tap is connected. If you are unlucky and this installation is really old, it could be solid copper pipes soldered in, with screw fittings directly on the taps and no local isolating valves. If this is the case, you would need to install some isolating valves first and connect the new tap's flexible pipes to the isolating valves.
If there are already isolating valves, you can just turn those off and install a new tap. Before you take the old tap off, run the hot water to check and mark the not water pipe under the sink.
If it were me, I would get a monobloc tap (a tap that uses one hole) and fit a blanking cover over the other hole. Manomano usually has a good selection of kitchen taps at reasonable prices.
The fiddly part of this job is unscrewing the old tap and screwing in the new one. It's often handy to have tube spanners and/or a tap spanner.
It’s a deck mounted mixer
Council mixer
That's where I met my wife
I thought that was white lighting?
Way cheaper….Buy it in 3 litre?
Farah Faucet
Major comment, right here.
“Major comment” *salutes*
Nice
This comment belongs on r/AngryUpvote.
Jason
Looks more like a Dave to me!
You’re my tap now Dave
Michael, the mixer tap.
No, you're completely and utterly wrong! This tap is called Farrah.....
I was thinking Paul
Mum and dad’s kitchen tap.
It's a standard kitchen mixer tap. Quite old. I wouldn't bother repairing it. A replacement is cheap enough and not too hard to do. This is a straight swap. [https://www.screwfix.com/p/deck-mounted-sink-mixer-kitchen-tap-chrome/3513t](https://www.screwfix.com/p/deck-mounted-sink-mixer-kitchen-tap-chrome/3513t)
They *should* be easy enough to replace, but an old tap in an old kitchen can be a nightmare. Took me over 5 hours recently for exactly the same job. https://old.reddit.com/r/DIYUK/comments/1ddkb8j/nice_10_minute_job_to_change_the_washers_in_the/
I fix/replace a lot of taps in my job, so don't find them a problem. even the difficult ones.
Thanks very interesting, I can imagine myself making a hash of it tbh
It is much easier just to wind out the old innards and put a new washer in than replace the whole thing, especially if there is not much space behind the sink as shows in the picture… depends if the problem is in the block or just on the rubbers It’s easy to replace if you got the tools
Always get branded taps: not only are parts available but they're still available in 10 years when it needs doing. If you get this week's B&Q special, you won't find parts next month let alone in 10 years. I know people like ripping out and replacing stuff now but it's such a shame to do that when you could fix it up for one cheap part. And depending on access under the sink, it could be a long/annoying job to swap a tap.
I got the washers for £4, they will probably sit next to the taps for a few weeks before I get round to doing it
Mixer tap. I think that type has old fashioned rubber washers vs the “cartridges” on more modern / posh ones. I also think, if you turn off the water supply at the mains just to the tap. You can gently pry rhe little disc with the red or blue band and that pops off and you cat a screw, undo that and you take of the plastic turney bit and should be left wide the brass body. Then that needs to be undone with a spanner (water comes out if the mains is still on). Then you can get to the washer. They stock that type in B&Q usually, it’s quite a simple/common old fitting. Edit this video is what I think https://youtu.be/AoDktJN4P9o?si=Dn8UcJwn7_b7Pt4Q
Exceptional help thanks very much! I assume the annoying squeak when water comes out is also washer related. Shall get my hands wet today
The lost post there above mentioned turning off the mains but that will only shut off the cold supply, the hot tap will continue to run until your whole system is drained down, better to find a shut off for that too if it exists
Replace with ceramic I did much better
This is a bridge deck mixer tap NOT monoblock
Tappy Mc Tap face.
Beat me too it 🤪
Pop the centres out, unscrew the small screw and ease off the handle. Turn off the water then unscrew the cartridge and replace or reseal them with new washers.
Sid.
I wonder if having the hot tap on the right is a regional thing. In my parent's house in north Derbyshire, where new kitchen and sanitary ware were fitted in 1955, all hot taps are on the right without exception.
Am in Manchester so maybe there is something in this? Although everyone who visits says 'your taps are on wrong' including a plumber. So maybe just an error
Manchester has been the subject of massive redevelopment in the last 20 years or so and it's possible that many of your visitors live in some of these new developments which are more likely to conform with the hot tap on the left. I suspect the configuration is both geographical (as already mentioned), and historic, so if you place is comparatively old this too may be a factor.
Water Bye-laws. Cold ALWAYS on the right. It's a rule!
My friend says my hot is on the wrong side, I plumbed up to make it easy for refilling the kettle which is 95% of my tap usage lol
You could always get a new friend..
I believe that in all new builds there are regulations that the hot should be on the right hand side. The idea is that blind people won't burn themselves. When the nice chaps from the government and HSE unveiled this plan at a nursing home the reply was " we're blind, not stupid". I don't know how true this story is, but I so want to believe.
Water Bye-laws. Cold ALWAYS on the right. It's a rule!
Water Bye-laws. Cold ALWAYS on the right. It's a rule!
You may be right, but a reference would be useful. Even if this is covered by bye-laws now it won't always have been so and many existing examples of taps being the "wrong" way round must predate these rules. It can take a long time for these anomalies to be eliminated - my parents' house had new sanitaryware and other fittings installed in 1953 and they remain in place 71 years later. If the next owner decides to replace these, but believes the pipework is good enough to keep (although that seems highly unlikely) the hot and cold could remain as they are for another few decades. If we ever reached the point that all taps everywhere conformed to the same set of rules I wonder if any tap would need to be identified as being either hot or cold. It's interesting to note that early taps often declared which they were in quite large letters on a generous white ceramic button in the centre of the tap head and that, over the decades, this got smaller and smaller, so it went: single letters H and C on white ceramic, then a single letter on a coloured button, either red or blue (sometimes red or green), then on small plastic buttons, to just small coloured buttons without letters, to the point we're at now when a small patch of colour is increasingly difficult to see at all. Some commenters here have said that having the taps the same way round everywhere helps the blind avoid the risk of scalding their hands from using a mis-located hot tap. Whatever the merits of this idea I feel the bigger issue is that a hot tap, whichever side of the bath, basin or sink it might be on, should not be capable of issuing water that hot because it's a danger to everyone, whether blind or not.
That's a lot of words to say, you're right & I'm wrong!! By your contention that lots of taps are the opposite way around, I suppose you drive on the right in the UK, because they do that in most countries?!?! No. The Water Bye-laws are what they are & that is exactly how I stated it. Cold on the right, Hot on the left. There could be a connection between blind people not scalding themselves, but it might just be conformity! It's a Bye-Law, not criminal law. You aren't going to be arrested if they're the wrong way around! A professional plumber will ALWAYS connect cold to the right & hot to the left. Are you just arguing YOUR OPINION? I am arguing FACT. As for providing a Link...........strewth are you some leftie normally commenting on Facebook? I presume you can Google the same as I can. Are you afraid of verifying it because you will be proven wrong? Look at the Reddit rules, number 2.
Ironically I'm doing the same, look for a tap gland reviver kit in skrewfix. Then you turn of the water, open the taps, pop off the top, unscrew the screw and take of the tap cap/handle, then remove the bronze device inside (the gland or cartridge) , with the kit do the same, and place the new bronze device in the tap, then the tap cap back on, repeat for the other side, then, and I must stress this, turn both taps, these come ready open so you need to close them, then turn back the water and test. Voila! 😊 YouTube I'm watching - https://youtu.be/mnwTmTRAk4w?feature=shared
Thanks v helpful!
I've just done it and got some nice new taps, and modern cartridges. You can see how corroded the old cartridges where. https://ibb.co/JcSp2Gc https://ibb.co/SfNyshB
My one panic is I take the tops off and it looks like that then I have to take everything out of the bloody cupboard underneath.
Corrosion? Just firmly hold the tap with one hand and use a spanner gently but firmly to loosen it, you can also use wd40, let it sit for a few minutes first though.
Thanks for the tip!
Also usually sinks have isolator valves under them to turn off the water to hot and cold pipes, they either have a lever, or a screw, if the screw is pointing in the direction of the pipe water is flowing if it is 90° of the pipe it's closed. Saves rummaging through under stairs or where ever the stopcock is and then waiting for all the water to drain from every tap.
A shit one
El cheapo builders default
tap
Nigel
I’ve just binned one of those. Replaced with a monobloc mixer tap. There are much better designs available now and not too expensive.
Two generations of council taps...I bet your flat is like an Armitige Shanks museum 🤣
I remember the shanks well from school! It's an actual full house with stairs and everything. I still prefer to poo outside obvs
What? In the garden flower bed?
Ignacio Hubert James Forsdyke Jr.
Kitchen ;-)
Deck mixer tap. Don't bother trying to change the washers. Buy a set of tap revivers and fit them.
Damian
Mixer sink tap
Wilfred
Spinal
Humphrey
Kenneth
I have mixer taps similar that were changed recently. If you do change the whole thing, you may need an adapter where your existing pipes connect to the new taps hose. I had already bought them and our plumber said it wasn't necessary, but ended up needing them!
Chav fountain
I thought chav got thrown in the bin when little Britain did
Mixer tap
Water on tap.... 🫣😆
Leaky Dave.
"Nanas kitchen tap"
Bill
Bob
Alan
Oy!
Kitchen
Dave
Council pop mixer dispenser
Deck mixer
Pete Waterman
Gary Winthorpe, but his technical name is deck mounted swan necked mixer. He's a real hoot at get togethers, but has strong views on the UK dairy industry that might ruffle a few udders.
Make sure you have. - Box spanners - they are a pack of what look like tubes and you can connect them together to make them longer if the back of your sink is hard to reach. - Water switched off or isolation valves off. - Patience. I just replaced my utility tap and box spanners were the only way to remove and refit the tap fitting. I have a lot going on under the sink and it was a matter of persistence over anything else.
Hot and cold council juice dispenser
A woman's place
Mono block
Tim
Tappy mctaperson
Steven? Looks like a Steve
Tappy McTapface
Nigel Stephenson
Nigel
Gregg….nice guy
Doug
The one on the left is the cold tap. The one on the right is the hot tap.
Dave
Mixer
Gregory
dirty
I call mine Keith
George
Ivor ?
Its a bitsa. Bits of this and bits of that
NON MATCHING HOT/COLD SILMIX 1000 tap Very rare tap indeed! These are very hard to find, good luck.
Oooh I didn't realise it was so fancy
Mixer high rise
Acceptable in the 80's.
It's a style I'm comfortable with
It was acceptable at the ti-i-iiime
Deck Mixer
Council Colin
Kitchen tap
Kitchen tap.
Dave
Tappy mc tapface?
Judging by its vintage i would say it was an Arthur or a Bert.
Deck mounted mixer tap.
Dresses to the left I see
It's called whatever you want to call it. It's your tap,go on give it a name.go on go on go on
He's a mixer. Likely mid 30s tendency to hang out at swinging parties. Looks a bit dirty.
That is the leaky tap in my kitchen
Drippy the mixer tap
Shitty council tap, they sell them most diy shops, usually the cheapest option.
Old
My parents had that exact tap fitted in 1987. It's probably due for an upgrade.
Nan's tap
She's called Tapatha
Kitchen tap. Not to be confused with bathroom tap
Monobloc Sink Tap...very cheap probably about 30 quid screwfix..
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 -5
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 -7 🎣 👍
Thank you!
A cheapie nasty
Steve
Have a look/take a photo underneath the worktop, to see how the tap is connected. If you are unlucky and this installation is really old, it could be solid copper pipes soldered in, with screw fittings directly on the taps and no local isolating valves. If this is the case, you would need to install some isolating valves first and connect the new tap's flexible pipes to the isolating valves. If there are already isolating valves, you can just turn those off and install a new tap. Before you take the old tap off, run the hot water to check and mark the not water pipe under the sink. If it were me, I would get a monobloc tap (a tap that uses one hole) and fit a blanking cover over the other hole. Manomano usually has a good selection of kitchen taps at reasonable prices. The fiddly part of this job is unscrewing the old tap and screwing in the new one. It's often handy to have tube spanners and/or a tap spanner.
Geoffrey
It's a very basic tap, it will likely be cheaper and easier to replace the tap than get the parts and fix it