Help identify a tap cartridge

[Fastpedaller]

I’ve been through this hell without luck. My local plumbing merchant has now closed.

It really is something that government could do to standardise these, if the industry won’t.
Battery sizes don’t see to be a problem, so why not plumbing parts?

I remember a customer telling me he worked for the steel industry using British Standards...... of which there are thousands.
No chance of standard plumbing parts - as soon as a new product is made they'll 'make a new standard'
Talking of which I retired from plumbing last August, and it was getting increasingly difficult to repair showers in particular - new models each years 'upgrading' old ones. I'm convinced this is to get around the requirements of providing spares......... "Oh no, we can't sell a spare because that model isn't made any more!"

 

[classic33]

View attachment 767741 According to my Google search it comes ups with

They match!

 

[mickle]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153751927408

 

[pangolin]

Haha thanks for the replies all. Access is tough so taking the whole tap is not going to happen, I'll just buy a new tap if the hunt is fruitless and I can't avoid taking the tap out.

Trying to avoid taking the cartridge somewhere as there is no isolator so I have to turn the water off to the house, which won't be tolerated for long!

I'll try servicing it and report back.

 

[slowmotion]

To be fair to the merchants unless it's a recognise brand of tap they actually stock it is close to impossible to identify the unit required. My mixer shower thermostat failed and the genuinely very good and well respected local merchant said they'd have a go if I brought the thermostat part it, but no promises, but the practicalities if this meant I bought a complete new shower unit. You'd naturally think there'd be no more than half a dozen valves and all the makers would fit whichever was most suitable, but stupidly there are hundreds

I got fed up with faffing about with our thermostatic shower mixer valve and replaced it with a manual one. The flow rate is much higher and it can't creep down to a lukewarm temperature over a few years. I figured that I've never scalded my big toe with the bath tap, so why worry about poaching myself in the shower?

 

[gbb]

I remember taking a top view photo of the splines then zooming in to count the amount of them, it's very tricky otherwise.

Tbf, I've brought generic ones online before, never had a problem, they've lasted perfectly well.

 

[Profpointy]

I got fed up with faffing about with our thermostatic shower mixer valve and replaced it with a manual one. The flow rate is much higher and it can't creep down to a lukewarm temperature over a few years. I figured that I've never scalded my big toe with the bath tap, so why worry about poaching myself in the shower?

The mixer shower thingy we have on the bath works fine and lacks a thermostat, so I'm broadly in agreement.

To be fair the basement thermostatic shower does now work fine, and the old model we replaced, clearly a cheap no-name compared to the new one, also worked fine for maybe 15 plus yeara

 

[fossyant]

Trying to avoid taking the cartridge somewhere as there is no isolator so I have to turn the water off to the house, which won't be tolerated for long!

This is often the problem. Our kitchen and bathroom aren't on isolators. When I fitted a new fancy waterfall tap to our downstairs 'bathroom', I fitted two isolators.

 

[MontyVeda]

when i thought i needed a new cartridge i ended up taking the cartridge apart, gave everything a wipe and put it back together. It worked a treat.

 

[pangolin]

Disassembly, cleaning and putting back together with some silicone grease seems to have fixed it!

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Unless it is marked with a known brand then plumbers merchant is your best bet. My tap are hansgrohe so I sent them a photo of the assembled tap and they got back to be same day with their part number which I was then easily able to buy one.

 

[geocycle]

I expect you have a much better shot at it with a proper brand like Franke, rather than a no-name or designer-sounding name which you've never heard of

True, but I thought my Franke was exactly the same as the picture in screwfix, only to find the spline count was different. Makes bike parts look standardised!