Hi,
I have a very old bath and tap set, but they are the same tap type as "Barcelona Bath/Shower Mixer Tap Chrome Effect".
I use this as mainly a shower, and over the last two to three weeks while using it the temperature has been going up and down as water has been flowing. Eventually I realised that the water coming out of the hot tap has pretty much stopped.
So as its the bank holiday, I thought I would DIY. At the end of the day when better to do it ! Oh, thats right when it all goes wrong there is no one to call upon ! DOH.
Anyway, I have isolated the water coming into the house, I have pulled off the wooden panel behind my bath taps and got to work. I disconnected the two water pipes from the taps by loosening the nuts on each ... and then tried to loosen the plastic nuts connecting the taps to the bath but my spanner just kept slipping so gave up on that one. It appears as if there is some kind of cement around the plastic nuts, and the hot taps plastic nut fitting is covered in rust.
As I couldnt get the tap off the bath, I proceeded to attack the problem from underneath. I got a small screw driver and put it up into the tap moving it around gently trying to encourage anything clogging up the tap to come out, sadly nothing did. So I put some flash spray, JIF and WD40 up the tap from underneath and left it get to work for sometime.
After about 30 minutes I connected the water pipes, turned the water back on into the house. Turned various taps on around the house to clear the air from the system, increased the pressure to my combi boiler and then went to test the hot top ...
Now nothing is coming out of the hot tap !!! Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I have a very old bath and tap set, but they are the same tap type as "Barcelona Bath/Shower Mixer Tap Chrome Effect".
I use this as mainly a shower, and over the last two to three weeks while using it the temperature has been going up and down as water has been flowing. Eventually I realised that the water coming out of the hot tap has pretty much stopped.
So as its the bank holiday, I thought I would DIY. At the end of the day when better to do it ! Oh, thats right when it all goes wrong there is no one to call upon ! DOH.
Anyway, I have isolated the water coming into the house, I have pulled off the wooden panel behind my bath taps and got to work. I disconnected the two water pipes from the taps by loosening the nuts on each ... and then tried to loosen the plastic nuts connecting the taps to the bath but my spanner just kept slipping so gave up on that one. It appears as if there is some kind of cement around the plastic nuts, and the hot taps plastic nut fitting is covered in rust.
As I couldnt get the tap off the bath, I proceeded to attack the problem from underneath. I got a small screw driver and put it up into the tap moving it around gently trying to encourage anything clogging up the tap to come out, sadly nothing did. So I put some flash spray, JIF and WD40 up the tap from underneath and left it get to work for sometime.
After about 30 minutes I connected the water pipes, turned the water back on into the house. Turned various taps on around the house to clear the air from the system, increased the pressure to my combi boiler and then went to test the hot top ...
Now nothing is coming out of the hot tap !!! Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.