Thread: Plumbing advice- tap seat replacement

Over the years since we've bought this place, I've changed almost all of the taps to have ceramic inserts. In most cases, have kept the original taps / valves and just installed inserts. Kitchen and bathrooms though, I have replaced the entire taps with new ones with ceramic internals (old ones were pretty crappy looking, and we have renovated both bathrooms).

I have found that, though initially expensive, the ceramics pay for themselves in the longer term. I think I have only had to replace one ceramic insert.

The other good thing with ceramic inserts is that you don't have to turn the taps off "tight" which is usually what buggers conventional seats and washers. The inserts I have used only rotate through either half a turn (in the kitchen) or three quarters of a turn in the showers and outside from fully on to fully off. The action is very "light" and there is no force or pressure at all required to turn fully off.

I think this is what I need.
By the looks the ceramic 1/4 turn jobs eliminate the washer and seat altogether, as the sealing happens within the spindle?

Pending sizing I think one of these should do the trick. Do the old rip it out and toddle off to bunnings trick
https://www.bunnings.com.au/shaw-mas...indle_p5050152

I've tried teaching the Cook how to lightly turn taps off! Doesn't work... huge amount of force necessary to turn them on again and that's where the flattened washers come from. Grrr.
My old mum used to be the same......must be a female thing where they have no sensitivity.
AlanH.

Originally Posted by ATH

I've tried teaching the Cook how to lightly turn taps off! Doesn't work... huge amount of force necessary to turn them on again and that's where the flattened washers come from. Grrr.
My old mum used to be the same......must be a female thing where they have no sensitivity.
AlanH.

No mechanical sympathy, i use the yellow poly washers and they hardly ever need replacing.

Yep, no tap washer known to man can withstand being turned off by the females in my house more than a few times. Going to have to get me some of those ceramic gadgets.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

No mechanical sympathy, i use the yellow poly washers and they hardly ever need replacing.

Yep, Best I've found too.

DL