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Mixer and faucet repair in Wafra starts by checking the cartridge because it is the first part to fail from hard water and mineral salts. Wafra is a farming cooperative zone with villas and houses, and the water here is high in salt and mineral concentration because it is near the Saudi border.
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
Wafra has villas and residential houses mixed with farms and fields, and the water here is very hard because of high salt and mineral concentration. The cartridge inside deteriorates quickly from salts, and internal seals stiffen and lose elasticity, starting to leak. We open the mixer, remove the cartridge with salt and mineral buildup, and fit a new one. If there is mineral and white algae buildup on the outer body, we clean it gently before installation.
Wafra sits in Ahmadi governorate, a farming cooperative area near the Saudi border with hard, salt-rich water.
Water in Wafra is very hard with salts and minerals, and the cartridge gets salt and white algae buildup quickly.
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 Wafra
The white buildup is mineral salts from the hard water in Wafra. This makes the cartridge deteriorate faster, so we clean the mixer gently and replace the cartridge with a new one.
Yes, hard water makes the cartridge and seals deteriorate faster than normal water. If you notice low pressure or a leak, the cartridge is usually the problem, not the whole mixer.
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