I will check the seat and base of the valve tonight, but in anticipation of a knackered seat I've just ordered a valve reseating tool (8 quid delivered). This tap will not beat me.
B*stard thing.
Understood. I will check this evening and take a load of interesting photos of bits of plumbery.
So it's sounding like the base of the valve, or the pipe into which it screws, is worn/dirty and that's the cause of the leak.
In other news does anyone want to buy a pair of only slightly used...
The only rubber seal is a black rubber ring that sits at the base of the thread, i.e. Nearest to the end the tap slots on to. Do you mean the other end where the ceramic disc sticks out a tiny bit?
Was reading this http://www.leakingtaps.co.uk/ and they talk about scratched to the ceramic...
You may very well be right.
So to attempt to reverse the faster leak I'd created I stopped the water again and replaced the original (and I presumed, leaking) valve and tightened everything back up. Water on and the leak is probably even slower than it was before.
And yes, the leak is from...
My bathroom has been designed by a genius with the bath and taps completely tiled in and inaccessible. I've had a slow leak on the bath's mixer tap for a while so have finally got around to replacing the valves which are quarter turn ones like this...
I have a Worcester Bosch R25 combi HE boiler which has been fine for heating my flat, and has been providing hot water to all taps and the shower. However, I tried the bath's hot tap for the first time since I moved in and it is only luke warm.
The interesting thing is if I turn on the...