"Tap reviver" kit?

Suspect they would need to retain the old seats - so probly not a good option ?

Jim K

They include the handle & the complete head gear. At that price I'm going to buy some & chuck away the handles! Thats cheaper than just buying the head gear.

It would be cheap & easy. I don't even bother turning the water off, just drape a towel over the tap & work quickly.

Older taps could be given an overhaul and be good as new. The new ones can suffer from knackered thread which makes them stiff through wear and binding. Just made out of s*it metals.

Try a complete dismantle & clean the thread up if it is a conventional tap. If it is one of these objects with an Oring, don't waste your time.

If the seat is good, no reason why you shouldn't fit a reviver kit, especially if you have a reseating tool. Don't go mad with the tool BTW, absolute minimum.

Maybe it has some kind of adhesive or filler material to make the worn bits waterticht?

Brian

The Medway Handyman grunted in news:dXdtu.43356$ snipped-for-privacy@fx08.am:

Thanks for the advice. So - partial success... I duly bought the Reviver kit this afternoon and set about my knackered tap - and yes your description above is spot on - however unfortunately the threaded body of the tap itself was obviously too large to take the new head gear. Surprising, as the tap's definitely a small, basin size with 1/2" stems. Also, the instructions with the kit state "If the old tap housing is of a wider diameter fit the adapter to the valve body and tighten firmly". Hmm. Definitely nothing like that in the box; but also the instructions appeared to refer to ceramic disc taps rather than conventional ones like mine (ie maybe the wrong instructions). So I dunno. Email to Toolstation is approaching!

But on the plus side, when I extracted old valve body and examined the tap washer... "er - what washer?" Yes, it had actually vanished completely, which would account for why the drip had got quite bad overnight and why I *really* needed to do this job today! A new washer has sorted the problem out for now, and although the taps's certainly still knackered and wants replacing, at least it's stopped dripping for now.

Lobster grunted in news:XnsA29DB98298759davidlobsterpot601@81.171.92.222:

Follow-up: TS just told me the boxes definitely don't include any adapters; no they don't sell larger-sized Revivers, and that if thet don't fit then send them back.

Odd. Bummer.

Probably explains the price. I'm pretty sure the SF ones do.

On 23 Dec 2013, The Medway Handyman grunted in news:AK0uu.59$ snipped-for-privacy@fx06.am:

Well this story has run on and on (for me) over Xmas and I thought I'd just report back...!

Yes, correct, many thanks: I bought a set of Screwfix ones, which do indeed contain adapters, and these did indeed fit my tap bodies. However, once you fit the adapter, then the rubber washer on the tap won't reach its seat when the tap is closed; therefore the kit includes a brass bush about 8mm long, to fit under the washer. Sadly, though, this is much too long for my application and means that the new head gear now won't screw into the body of the tap. I need the bush to be about half the length - very simple job for a lathe if I had one! - I might try using stacked s/steel washers if I can find some the right size, but it's getting a bit Heath-Robinson.

Actually, in between times I decided to forget it and just fit new taps... FAIL! These taps are on a little corner hand basin fitted by the previous occupier in the downstairs toilet; and the access is far too confined to allow the lock nuts to be removed under the basin; they were obviously attached before the basin was fixed to the wall, after which said wall was fully tiled (floor to ceiling with obscure tiles). Therefore no chance of removing the basin without a full re-tile job, which ain't happening any time soon (and this is all just to fix a dripping tap, FFS...)