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Introduction |
Only 15% of UK taps now use rubber washers. The rest use ceramic disc cartridges of which yours might literally be any of 5000 variations. It’s due to this complication that most plumbers advise you to throw it out and install new. | | This is a guide for for identifying two handled (hot & cold) tap (faucet) cartridges. | | Taps with seperate hold and cold handles account for approx 80% of all UK taps with approx. 15% of UK taps still using rubber washers. The rest use ceramic disc cartridges, of which there are currently around 4000 variations, and yours could literally be any of those 4000! It’s this kinda lottery that is behind why most plumbers advise you to throw out your tap and install new.
This guide showstakes you through how to accurately identify yours so you can track down replacements rather than wastingwaste, time, money & precious Earthy resources needlessly replacing something that can easily be repaired. |
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