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Mixer and faucet repair in Abdullah Al-Salem suburb covers villas in a modern residential area near the British Embassy. The tap leaks or cuts water on both hot and cold, and the fix is usually replacing the internal cartridge.
Mixer symptoms
Four cases wesee often.
Each one of these points at a different part inside the mixer.
01
It drips after closing
If it keeps dripping with the handle fully closed, the ceramic discs inside the cartridge no longer meet cleanly. A single grain of grit is enough to score that face and keep the drip going.
02
The handle has gone stiff
A mixer that needs force to move has lost the grease inside it, or deposits have worked between the discs. Forcing it keeps breaking the cartridge, and you end up changing the mixer instead of a part.
03
The flow sprays sideways
When the flow breaks up and sprays to the sides, the small aerator at the tip is partly blocked. It is the easiest case of all, cleared by unscrewing the aerator and cleaning or replacing it.
04
Hot and cold are swapped
You open it towards cold and hot arrives, or the other way round. This follows a new installation with the two supplies reversed, or a cartridge refitted the wrong way up. The correction is simple and does not need a new mixer.
This area
What setsthis area apart
Abdullah Al-Salem has modern villas, most built in recent years, with new mixers that still face Kuwaiti water and mineral issues. A single villa might have five or six taps spread across bathrooms, kitchen and washing machine, and each cartridge may need service at the same time. We remove the mixer from its place and inspect the cartridge and seals, and sometimes quickly clean the aerator before ordering a new cartridge.
Abdullah Al-Salem suburb is in Kuwait governorate, a modern villa area near the British Embassy district.
Abdullah Al-Salem villas are newly built with higher-grade mixers, yet the cartridges still fail at the same rate due to mineral saturation.
In short
The mixer work.
Service
Kitchen and bathroom mixer and tap repair
The parts
Ceramic cartridge, rubber rings, aerator, flexible tails
Types
Single lever, two handle, wall mounted, and hand shower
Where it applies
Kitchens and bathrooms in houses, flats and chalets
Hours
Daily, 6:00 in the morning to 12:00 midnight
The method
From the handleto the test.
Careful work on small parts, and all of it above the basin.
We close both angle valves
A mixer has two supplies, hot and cold, and both have to be closed. We then open the mixer to release the pressure still held in the two tails.
We lift the handle off
The handle is held by a small screw hidden under a plastic cap, and beneath it a ring clamps the cartridge. That comes off with the right tool so the mixer body is not scarred.
We change the cartridge
The old cartridge comes out and its seat is cleaned of deposits, because a new cartridge dropped onto a dirty seat gives you the same drip again before long.
We open it and check both
Both valves open, we run hot, cold and every position between, and we look under the basin while it runs to be sure the tails are not weeping.
Common questions
Questions about Mixer and faucet repair in Abdullah Al-Salem
Each mixer has its own cartridge, so one may be older or gets more mineral buildup than another. We can fix just that one tap without touching the others.
No, the cartridge has no electrical parts, just metal pieces and plastic seals that move. But if the villa has a smart water system, we make sure it is not affected by swapping the mixer.
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Other work we do in the same area.
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