The repair of the current crane can safely be sent to the to-do list, to which the hands do not reach. And the sound of dripping water we will send to the list of the most annoying sounds in the house. Therefore it is not bad to know the main points in the question, how to fix the current tap in the kitchen.
How to eliminate the leak in the kitchen faucet?
There are not so many reasons why the tap is running in the kitchen, we'll turn to them, at the same time we will solve the problem, how to fix it:
- Rubber gasket could be damaged. Sooner or later, due to the constant mechanical and temperature loads, the rubber will crack, burst and simply wear out. Our task is to disassemble the valve and remove the plug, then take out the core. On the crane-boksa we will see the most worn out elastic, which we will remove and replace with a new one. We fix everything in its place.
- It is likely that the faucet is flowing in the kitchen due to a worn omentum , and the first thing to do in this situation is to pay attention to the nature of the leak. If everything is dry in the closed position, but when the water is turned on, the drops appear in the area of the valves, this is exactly the stuffing box. We unscrew the stuffing box nut, then we change the stuffing box. Sometimes it is replaced temporarily with fluoroplastic tape.
- Sometimes to eliminate the leak in the tap in the kitchen is a whole event, since you have to clean the ball cartridge . In general, this system is not the most reliable due to its sensitivity to water with impurities. We open the cap on the lever and shoot the so-called decor. Unscrew the nut that presses the cartridge itself, and remove the mechanism. Next, we are already reviewing the cause of the failure and changing all the damaged parts. That's why the turntable in the kitchen often flows,
in fact it is operated up to ten times for a day.
A new tap is running in the kitchen - what can I do?
The most insulting thing is when you just installed the plumbing and it did not work for a month, when a leak appeared. The reason is manufacturing waste, negligence during installation or damage during installation, which you were not told.
To fix how to examine the faucet in the kitchen, whether there are chips or cracks, the water flows and because of them. With this problem it is useless to struggle and you can immediately buy a new plumbing. Sometimes during installation, the system was dismantled and assembled again incorrectly, not all nuts are twisted or all the parts fit tightly together. Anyway, and now you can try to solve the problem yourself, then invite an expert.