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Mixer and faucet repair in Hateen usually starts when you notice water dripping from the tap even after you shut the handle. Hateen is a mixed residential area in Hawalli with both villas and flats, and the buildings range from older to newer on the same street.
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
Hateen has basement flats, regular flats and small villas, and old-house owners have brass taps while newer ones use plastic or steel. The cartridge is the only part that fails, and we swap it for a new one matched to the mixer model. In older flats, the spout itself sometimes gets clogged with limescale from hard water, so we clean it, fit a fresh cartridge and new PTFE tape so the water stops dripping after.
Hateen sits in Hawalli governorate, a mixed residential area where villas and multi-storey flats stand side by side.
Most older flats in Hateen have copper pipework and old-style mixers that need cartridges you only find at lift-part suppliers.
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 Hateen
The cartridge is not closing the cold water fully, so water drips steadily. We replace the cartridge with a new one that matches the mixer body, and the drip stops after.
A new cartridge sometimes drips if your water has high limescale or salts. We swap it for a stronger cartridge and fit a small mesh screen on the spout to catch debris before it reaches the cartridge.
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