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:D Mixer tap now working properly. Had to buy a new one as original faulty. The leak was due to a split in the pipe inside the tap. Have also fitted isolation valves on cold and hot pipes to make it easier to service the mixer next time. Special thanks to Nige F for advice; I appreciated your...

Shower is in separate room, separated by wall/partition, and is in bedroom en-suite. Check valve was put in when house built because we have lived in it from new. But we have had not additions since then. However, builder builds many different design of houses and I bet they have standard layout...

I think cold side of mixer is tank fed as I have closed two taps in loft tank and neither hot nor cold water in mixer is coming through. No hot water is coming through any hot tap in the house but cold taps are all working (except, as I've said, the bath mixer cold). However, I've just checked...

Hi; Nige F I think I've found the problem. The hot copper pipe below the tap is connected to a brass pipe about 75mm long with some kind of bleeding nipple half way along. I took this pipe out - a struggle in the tight space - and it has a complex sprung valve system inside which is able to...

Hi Nige F. I took the whole plunger thing out. Nothing was loose. I left it out and turned the hot water on and it just trickled out of the hole of the mixer.

Hot water from bath mixer tap trickles out, even when fully turned on. Has been like this for months; originally was ok then started to "howl" when water turned on & after some months stopped howling with water just trickling out. Have 3 times used washing machine cold supply into hot...