Hi
I'm looking for advice in the hope that a kind & knowledgeable soul (or two) may be able to assist.
I'm looking to replace two basin mixer taps in my bathrooms - one is dripping constantly, and the other squeals whenever any hot water is delivered to another tap (kitchen or other bathroom) or shower via, the combi boiler. It would appear that both the cartridges are failing / have failed - both taps are approx 16 years old.
To over-complicate matters, I'm looking for fairly specific features.... Ideally single lever mixer taps with pop-up waste, and 10mm sized threads for screw-in tails (not fixed tails).
The reason for this specific ask is to negate the need to change the existing pop-up waste to a flip or press top design, and to use some very flexible 300mm long, 10mm thread tap connectors I've bought which I know will comfortably fit between the taps and inlet pipes (which is ~270mm).
The attached photo shows the existing plastic pipes exiting the wall horizontally, and I plan to remove all the vertical plastic pipe and attach a small length of copper pipe into the elbows, on to which I will attach the compression fitting which is on the end of the tails I have purchased.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find any mixer taps that meet my requirements. B&Q seem to only sell mixer taps with 300mm or 400mm 'flexible' hoses with 8mm threads with tails / hoses that aren't really flexible at all. Wickes staff don't seem to know what pop-up waste is, and none of the taps in my local store appeared to even be sold with waste fittings so I guess press top or flip options only.
I did find suitable taps from taps.co.uk but they sent me the press-top waste version in error and then advised that they'd mistakenly been advertising a pop-up waste model that hadn't been manufactured for years. Technical specification sheets also seem to be very vague.
Budget ideally ~£100 per tap. Any suggestions welcomed. Apologies if anything is not clear.
Many thanks,
Pete.
I'm looking for advice in the hope that a kind & knowledgeable soul (or two) may be able to assist.
I'm looking to replace two basin mixer taps in my bathrooms - one is dripping constantly, and the other squeals whenever any hot water is delivered to another tap (kitchen or other bathroom) or shower via, the combi boiler. It would appear that both the cartridges are failing / have failed - both taps are approx 16 years old.
To over-complicate matters, I'm looking for fairly specific features.... Ideally single lever mixer taps with pop-up waste, and 10mm sized threads for screw-in tails (not fixed tails).
The reason for this specific ask is to negate the need to change the existing pop-up waste to a flip or press top design, and to use some very flexible 300mm long, 10mm thread tap connectors I've bought which I know will comfortably fit between the taps and inlet pipes (which is ~270mm).
The attached photo shows the existing plastic pipes exiting the wall horizontally, and I plan to remove all the vertical plastic pipe and attach a small length of copper pipe into the elbows, on to which I will attach the compression fitting which is on the end of the tails I have purchased.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find any mixer taps that meet my requirements. B&Q seem to only sell mixer taps with 300mm or 400mm 'flexible' hoses with 8mm threads with tails / hoses that aren't really flexible at all. Wickes staff don't seem to know what pop-up waste is, and none of the taps in my local store appeared to even be sold with waste fittings so I guess press top or flip options only.
I did find suitable taps from taps.co.uk but they sent me the press-top waste version in error and then advised that they'd mistakenly been advertising a pop-up waste model that hadn't been manufactured for years. Technical specification sheets also seem to be very vague.
Budget ideally ~£100 per tap. Any suggestions welcomed. Apologies if anything is not clear.
Many thanks,
Pete.
