You have to remove it..Just leave it whilst it works.The part that usually goes is the hot water diaphragm in the big brass circular housing on the front.The squeak could just be the spring inside moving.When the diapghragm splits, you get no hot water,when the parts inside go wrong, the hot water heats up radiators instead of coming out of a tap..Those are the two usual fails.
You can fit the whole service kit in situ?
yes why not it isnt difficult
you can normally get away with just doing the front section, the rear section is a bit more tricky
It looked too complicated and it wasn't leaking from that end , so I left it alone
you never mentioned anything about a leak, you said it was sqeeking , if you actually meant leaking then what you have done should sort it
I changed it the bits because it was leaking from the castle looking nut , it doesn't leak now . It just makes a momentary squeek when I turn on the hot water ( the squeek developed a couple of months after I changed the bits )
Never tried it Ian..I have always changed the whole valve..cannot think how you get in to undo the back brass, where the clip goes on..Cannot think how you would get that off in situ and change the bits inside.
getting it off is the easy bit, getting it back on can be a real pain
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