I've been trying to take apart this tap to fix it. (The details of the issue aren't important, but I've noticed them below.)
(Does anyone recognise the make? I didn't keep my original notes, and knowing the make & model would help.)
I've been using this YouTube video about taking taps apart. I have removed the cover for the screw hole, and found the right alum key to remove the screw. It certainly fellt like I managed to remove the screw, and I think it looks like it too:
According to the advice in the YT video, the top should simply lift off. Instead, it is as fixed to the rest of the tap as it was before; and I can't see anything else to unscrew.
Do you know? Is this a different model with an idiosyncratic way of taking it apart? Or is it just calcified shut with the hard water?
(Why: My mixer tap has slowly progressed from sometimes leaking to letting all the water through. Before, you could close it by turning the handle in a square: from cold off to cold on to hot on to hot off et cetera. I assume some small part, whether a mechanism or a washer, needs fixing.)
(Does anyone recognise the make? I didn't keep my original notes, and knowing the make & model would help.)
I've been using this YouTube video about taking taps apart. I have removed the cover for the screw hole, and found the right alum key to remove the screw. It certainly fellt like I managed to remove the screw, and I think it looks like it too:
Shining a light into the hole in the tap head.
This should help explain why I think I've successfully removed the screw. Not only did it feel...
According to the advice in the YT video, the top should simply lift off. Instead, it is as fixed to the rest of the tap as it was before; and I can't see anything else to unscrew.
Do you know? Is this a different model with an idiosyncratic way of taking it apart? Or is it just calcified shut with the hard water?
(Why: My mixer tap has slowly progressed from sometimes leaking to letting all the water through. Before, you could close it by turning the handle in a square: from cold off to cold on to hot on to hot off et cetera. I assume some small part, whether a mechanism or a washer, needs fixing.)