I'm repairing an old tap for a customer, around 25 years old. Its the standard tap washer body but unusually has a square head for the tap shroud to sit on, similar to the head on a lock shield valve but bigger. The tap is ornate brass with a screw and cover that sits on top of the shroud, kind of hard to describe!
The problem isn't with any of this but with the washer housing at the bottom, at some point in the past some muppet has replaced the housing with a generic tap reviver one, which is now too large/deep to sit in the tap body. Resulting in no flow of water, when the tap is fully open, every washer I try is too big/thick. My question is, does anyone know a smaller washer housing?
I'm thinking of buying a few reviver kits and hoping one has a smaller housing that will fit this tap, I'll remove the old housing and wind the new one into the valve.
The tap is very unusual and matches the suite, so impossible to change.
Thanks
The problem isn't with any of this but with the washer housing at the bottom, at some point in the past some muppet has replaced the housing with a generic tap reviver one, which is now too large/deep to sit in the tap body. Resulting in no flow of water, when the tap is fully open, every washer I try is too big/thick. My question is, does anyone know a smaller washer housing?
I'm thinking of buying a few reviver kits and hoping one has a smaller housing that will fit this tap, I'll remove the old housing and wind the new one into the valve.
The tap is very unusual and matches the suite, so impossible to change.
Thanks