Hiya - the mixer tap in my kitchen has been leaking and squeaking for months, and of course I've avoided fixing it while refusing to pay a professional. Now I'm hearing noises in the bath tap (which stop suddenly when I isolated the kitchen sink), so I think the time has come to actually do this.
Pic of my kitchen pipe setup attached. I'll be buying a bog standard mixer replacement (Deva Newton Mono Mixer, unless someone recommends a better brand?)
Got my pair of wrenches and my tap spanners, and tested both successfully. So I'm nearly good to go... but I'm worried about how I make the connection between the isolation valve (blue area in pic) and the end of the pipe that'll come with the new tap (presumably the same as red area in pic)?
What's the big white thing in the blue circle for? Is that a copper olive currently in place beneath it (if so I probably broke its seal when I tested the wrenches, whoops)? Do I chuck the white thing, cut off the olive (how?) and screw on my new pipe with a new olive?
Easy to understand the basics, but these things are never as simple on first attempt!
Thanks in advance for your patience! 🙏
Pic of my kitchen pipe setup attached. I'll be buying a bog standard mixer replacement (Deva Newton Mono Mixer, unless someone recommends a better brand?)
Got my pair of wrenches and my tap spanners, and tested both successfully. So I'm nearly good to go... but I'm worried about how I make the connection between the isolation valve (blue area in pic) and the end of the pipe that'll come with the new tap (presumably the same as red area in pic)?
What's the big white thing in the blue circle for? Is that a copper olive currently in place beneath it (if so I probably broke its seal when I tested the wrenches, whoops)? Do I chuck the white thing, cut off the olive (how?) and screw on my new pipe with a new olive?
Easy to understand the basics, but these things are never as simple on first attempt!
Thanks in advance for your patience! 🙏
