Ikea Loviken kitchen tap - help please

[Kumast]

Hi there

If anyone can help me I'd be very grateful.

I'm trying to fix my mothers kitchen tap for her which is leaking. Its an Ikea Loviken mixer tap and the hot tap is leaking.

I'm presuming its a ceramic disk type tap rather than washer. The problem is I cant get the tap apart. I undid the screw on top the hot tap handle, and the small screw that is then revealed inside the tap, but all of that doesn't seem to loosen the tap at all.

Does anyone have experience of this tap?

Many thanks in advance. Great forum btw.

 

[townfanjon]

Parts for an ikea tap , TBH i personaly wouldnt bother, just put a new tap on, unless its a newish one and then take it back.

 

[Masood]

Parts for an ikea tap , TBH i personaly wouldnt bother, just put a new tap on, unless its a newish one and then take it back.

They are a nightmare. It will be almost impossible to get spares. IKEA don't stock or sell them, they don't know where to get them, they don't know who manufactures the taps (I assume they are rebadged from another manufacturer).

Rip it out and stick in a decent, known brand that you'll stand some chance of getting parts for a few years down the line...

 

[Kumast]

Parts for an ikea tap , TBH i personaly wouldnt bother, just put a new tap on, unless its a newish one and then take it back.

They are a nightmare. It will be almost impossible to get spares. IKEA don't stock or sell them, they don't know where to get them, they don't know who manufactures the taps (I assume they are rebadged from another manufacturer).

Rip it out and stick in a decent, known brand that you'll stand some chance of getting parts for a few years down the line...

Thanks for the advice. It doesn't look good, and I'm not really surprised, considering that we're talking about Ikea.