70 year old shower control blocked up with lime scale

Steve Jones · 2005-07-29T13:58:20+00:00

Hi,I have a magnificent brass and chrome shower control. Six inches indiameter, probably ten pounds of brass in all.The problem is that the cold inlet is now down to a dribble and the familyis feed up being lightly boiled every morning.Both the cold and hot inlets have a removable cover that exposes a valve topwith a screw slot. Both valves are rock solid and refuse to budge even withmy bigest screwdriver. The shower inlets are in the airing cupboard and areconnected to lead pipes that have been sweated on.I'd like to try and fix it in situ if its at all possible. Any ideas how I might go about it?Thanks, Steve.

Jul 29, 2005 24 Replies

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mike ring 20 years ago

This is not generally a group that bothers about spelling mistakes and typos

Unless they're funny.

mike

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Mary Fisher 20 years ago

Oh - was it a spelling mistake?

I thought that source could do nothing wrong ...

Mary

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John Rumm 20 years ago

We have a pet spelling Nazi....

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John Rumm 20 years ago

It is not the material of the pipe I was commenting on. Only the fact that you are not supposed to use wiped joints thee days for some reason.

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Scraggy 20 years ago

Thou from Yorkshire?

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