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Hello all, I've got one of these:
Homebase Westminster Concentric Mixer
Instructions here
It's about 6 months old, and this morning it decided not to turn off. My wife says it was very stiff to turn on this morning, and now when you rotate the handle to the off position, it slips round with a bit of resistance, turning the shower down a little, but not off.
I've turned off the water supply to the house for the day as I had to go to work, but will try to fix this tonight.
Does anyone have any advice regarding this? I don't know if something will just need cleaning / greasing / tightening, or if something might need replacing - I understand no one can know for sure, but any thoughts would be appreciated.
One thing I'm not sure about, is that it looks like there's a screw at the front that will allow the controls to slide off (I'm looking at page two of the instructions above), however this has the ceramic white "Westminster 1902" cap (glued?) on at the moment, and I'm not sure how to get it off - I presume that if I try to leaver it with a screw driver I'm likely to break it. Is there a recommended technique? From the instructions it looks like there's also an "adapter" under that before the screw - not sure if this will just pop off or what?
As a guide, I'm a keen but inexperienced diyer - I can do most things once I know how!
Thanks all,
James
Homebase Westminster Concentric Mixer
Instructions here
It's about 6 months old, and this morning it decided not to turn off. My wife says it was very stiff to turn on this morning, and now when you rotate the handle to the off position, it slips round with a bit of resistance, turning the shower down a little, but not off.
I've turned off the water supply to the house for the day as I had to go to work, but will try to fix this tonight.
Does anyone have any advice regarding this? I don't know if something will just need cleaning / greasing / tightening, or if something might need replacing - I understand no one can know for sure, but any thoughts would be appreciated.
One thing I'm not sure about, is that it looks like there's a screw at the front that will allow the controls to slide off (I'm looking at page two of the instructions above), however this has the ceramic white "Westminster 1902" cap (glued?) on at the moment, and I'm not sure how to get it off - I presume that if I try to leaver it with a screw driver I'm likely to break it. Is there a recommended technique? From the instructions it looks like there's also an "adapter" under that before the screw - not sure if this will just pop off or what?
As a guide, I'm a keen but inexperienced diyer - I can do most things once I know how!
Thanks all,
James