My bathroom has been designed by a genius with the bath and taps completely tiled in and inaccessible. I've had a slow leak on the bath's mixer tap for a while so have finally got around to replacing the valves which are quarter turn ones like this; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Replacemen...3IHM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1312318600&sr=8-2
Now to change the valves I had to wait for Thames Water to replace my outside stopcock as I am in a conversion flat with no internal stopcock (I've had a plumber look for this and we only found one that turns off the taps, not that bath or shower).
Anyway, all replaced and tightly done up, but now the leak is actually faster than before. As I cannot get to any of the plumbing leading into the tap I cannot tell what the hell is causing this. The sink in the kitchen has also started gurgling every 10 or so seconds. Any reason to think I've opened the street stopcock too much and increased the pressure above what it was, or is this not really possible?
Any ideas would be amazing as this is about 6 weeks in now and driving me mad!
Thanks,
Julius
Now to change the valves I had to wait for Thames Water to replace my outside stopcock as I am in a conversion flat with no internal stopcock (I've had a plumber look for this and we only found one that turns off the taps, not that bath or shower).
Anyway, all replaced and tightly done up, but now the leak is actually faster than before. As I cannot get to any of the plumbing leading into the tap I cannot tell what the hell is causing this. The sink in the kitchen has also started gurgling every 10 or so seconds. Any reason to think I've opened the street stopcock too much and increased the pressure above what it was, or is this not really possible?
Any ideas would be amazing as this is about 6 weeks in now and driving me mad!
Thanks,
Julius