How do I re-washer this tap?

[sharpener]

... bought from B&Q maybe 10 years ago?

 

Needs a lot of turning to turn off completely so I would like to try rewashering it.

 

No visible grub screw. Can't prize any cap off the top to get at any fixings. Can't turn it on far enough to see any hex flat underneath to unscrew the headworks.

 

Any ideas?

[markc]

Small screwdriver to pop the caps out of the tops, remove screw to remove knob and you will then get to take the tap apart. 
just re read post and you cannot get caps out? If that’s right the whole cap/knob may be held with a snap ring and just pulls off …. With some force ….. or it may shatter!

Edited 11 hours ago by markc

[G and J]

I’m sure the chrome cap will prize off.  You may have to soak in viacal or similar and work your fingernails under it, but I would be very surprised if you didn’t find a grub screw under the cap.

[SteamyTea]

I used to have the same taps.

As other have said.  Small screwdriver to get the cap off, you need to push it into the plastic ring a bit.

The, you need a Phillips screwdriver, not a Posidrive to undo the screw.

Wiggle the knob off, this can be quite difficult as it can a bit corroded.

Then you can get to the cartridge with a spanner.

 

I changed all mine to quarter turn cartridges with lever taps.  This was because my one armed lodger had trouble holding a kettle and turning a tap.

[Nickfromwales]

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£20 brand new......

[sharpener]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

I used to have the same taps.

As other have said.  Small screwdriver to get the cap off, you need to push it into the plastic ring a bit.

The, you need a Phillips screwdriver, not a Posidrive to undo the screw.

Wiggle the knob off, this can be quite difficult as it can a bit corroded.

Then you can get to the cartridge with a spanner.

 

I changed all mine to quarter turn cartridges with lever taps.  This was because my one armed lodger had trouble holding a kettle and turning a tap.

 

 

Thanks. To elaborate am I trying to just get the central chrome bit out leaving the blue plastic ring behind?

 

I have tried a thin knife blade, perhaps I just need to push harder but I would OH would like to avoid cosmetic damage.

 

The action doesn't feel like a cartridge, more like an old-fashioned washer. In any event it goes round multiple turns.

 

1 hour ago, Nickfromwales said:

 

£20 brand new......

 

Unfortunately I can't easily change it. The plastic backnut split in two as stupidly I had not swapped it for a brass one so there is now a lash-up holding the tap down hence the broken packing round the base.

 

The whole sink cupboard unit was pre-assembled and then fitted in its final position and a tiled splashback installed above. I don't think there is clearance to change the tap without reversing some of this.

[Nickfromwales]