Bathroom faucet repair

No bathroom, no kitchen, no house at all does not do without on its territoryat least one mixer has not been installed. But if we talk about how to repair the mixer in the bathroom, we recommend that you pay your attention to this article, in which we tried to collect the information you need on this issue.

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We repair bathroom faucets: half-turn faucets, gates and joysticks

These 3 parts of the mixer are specifically designed to control water flow, and it is in them that you need to find the cause of the leakage of precious liquid through the nozzle of the mixer. Also, these mixer elements can fully respond to other malfunctions. For example:

• valve failure may well lead to vibrations of the pipes;
• absolutely any of the crane-valve or half-turn valve can begin to leak near the tap itself.

Repair of faucets with similar breakages, except for some individual features of the control unit itself, occurs in the same way. Let's consider each of them individually more thoroughly.

Valve This is the most usable water flow control element in the mixer, and at the same time, most often failing. You can throw it out at the dump only when the metal itself is spoiled, everything else is a rubber gasket and stuffing box packing. They change in two counts, after which the mixer again returns to a suitable state.

So, let's get started. Now we'll figure it out if the tap in the bathroom flows - how to fix it.

gasket The gasket is most easily replaced, which is responsible for regulating the flow of water:

1. As soon as the crane is removed, at the bottom, unscrew the small screw.
2. Remove the old gasket.
3. Instead of it, install a completely new one, and then twist the screw back.

Packing packing

With stuffing box packing, the breakdown of which causes the leakage from the tap, the repair is somewhat more complicated:

1. At first you should try to tighten the stuffing box - unscrewing the tap-axle for this is not always necessary.
2. On the pin, on which the valve handle itself is put on, a completely small nut is wound in the base of the crane, which has a square notch at the base. It must be carefully screwed clockwise.
3. If this can not help, unscrew the pressure ring of the stuffing box, wind the stuffing box packing on the valve stem and screw the ring back, tightening it tight.

As a result of such manipulations, the optimum repair of the faucet in the bathroom will be carried out and the leakage from under your tap must necessarily stop.

Semi-reverse valves

The repairability of this mixer can be said as follows: on a half-turn valve it is allowed to change only the gaskets that must keep water from flowing near the tap itself.

Important! Management of all water flows in these crane-boxes is carried out with the help of special ceramic inserts, which, unfortunately, are not subject to repair.

If you think about it, it's good, because you do not have to bother with the repair for a long time:

1. The old crane-axle was removed.
2. Purchase the same.
3. Install it in its place.

This and all that can be said about the repair of the half-turn faucet tap.

Joysticks

Not much more can be said about the repair of the joystick mixer in the bathroom, which controls the flow of water with a special ceramic cartridge. Its complete repair is reduced to the banal replacement of this knot of the mixer. The cartridge changes relatively simply:

1. To begin with, first unscrew the screw under the handle, remove the joystick.
2. After this, unscrew the decorative cap, inside which there is a nut, it holds the cartridge itself.
3. Unscrew it, remove the cartridge, thoroughly clean the seat, install a completely new cartridge.
4. Then set the whole thing back in reverse order.

This is how the single-lever mixer is mended.

Simply put, everything here should be extremely clear, repairing the mixers in the bathroom of these types, basically reduces either to the usual replacement of gaskets and gaskets, or to the installation of a completely new mechanism for water management.

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Bathroom faucets: repairing other minor breakdowns

The above troubles happen quite often, but we also have to deal with less complicated problems.

Water flows under the mixer nut

This error is quite common, and it can be caused by two things:

• a broken gasket;
• with a broken nut.

It is quite easy to replace the gasket, but in case the nut is broken, you will have to buy a pair at once, together with the union. They are twisted by means of a hexagonal key after you remove the mixer from eccentrics.

Important! In case it flows from under the nut of the mixer just installed, then you probably tightened the nuts, as a result of which the gasket was destroyed or the eccentrics themselves were installed in the wrong way.

A leak was detected under the

nozzle nut. If this problem occurs, this is an absolutely correct indicator of the wear of the gasket. Unscrew the nut, replace the rubber rings, and then install the nozzle in its place - the leak must necessarily stop.

Leak in the shower hose

As a rule, the appearance of such leakage tells us that the inner part of the shower hose, which consists of rubber is already worn out. Often these events are preceded by deformation of the metal braid.

It is possible to repair such a hose, but in order to avoid such a problem, get a new one better, because after repair the hose will already have the wrong aesthetic appearance.

shower head has become unusable. Do not be greedy and get a new one, because the repair will require a huge expenditure of your nerves from you. Ke design does not at all look like a complicated one, but if you take into account the factory assembly, which usually does not involve the process of dismantling, then it's better not to mess with such things. The chance that it will be irrevocably and finally broken is very high and reaches about 99%.

Now you know in which case it is possible to repair the mixer in the bathroom and how to do it, and when it is easier to buy new elements of the water system and update it.