Are you or do you know a reliable trust worthy plumber on or around the Mersey/Lancs border area?

If not can you help anyway>

Next door but one are having problems with their on suite shower unit and they (and me) are finding the removal of the cartridge impossible.

We did the main shower without and problems but the on suite is not budging.

The shower unit once removed looks like this and we can’t budge the nut
http://i50.tinypic.com/2dbo3mf.jpg

We’ve got a cartridge like this out of one
http://i48.tinypic.com/1zf37lv.jpg

Any ideas, apart from using a big hammer and risk smashing the lot?

Socket set with a looong lever ?

If all else fails then skelp it with a big hammer…

Zedsdead – Member
If all else fails then skelp it with a big hammer…

Knowing me I’ll smash it off the wall before I get it loose

Just skelp it harder…..

Looks like a standard socket to me, can’t see a hammer (however big) helping.

does undoing the two bolt snot allow you to wothdrwa it then do the cartrdge removal using a bench vice and spanners
I assume you have put a socket on and a very long bar 3 ft + – is the nut bit on th eoutside rounded?

John (my best purveyor of border terriers) call my mate Davy Taggart on 07977039682

He is in Belfast but will be able to offer telephone advice

I will let him know you may be calling

Pete

it’s probably got a lot of sealant on it. Using more leverage will likely loosen the compression fittings, or worse, pull it from it’s mounting.

You need to get an impact driver on it to loosen it up without twisting it

Hi John, we’ve used a really good plumber, he’s from St Helens.

Dough Laughton
01744615067
07970387655

John, got this back

“gave it a coat of looking over, they are always screwed in realy tightly at the factory and we have used three foot stilsons to swing on them to get them out. Trouble is, swing to hard and the valve will set sail from it’s mooring.”

LOL, after this bottle of red wine I am going to set sail from my mooring!