{"id":8020,"date":"2012-07-31T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2012-07-31T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:09:37","slug":"the-following-following-weekend-plumbing-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8020","title":{"rendered":"Knackered (confessions of a plumber, part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeling a bit jaded, I turned up the following Saturday with, as well as my trusty toolkit, a small cardboard box containing a complete mixer cartridge assembly.<\/p>\n

Yay!<\/p>\n

Nothing can stop me now!<\/p>\n

I thought.<\/p>\n

Straight in to the bathroom, off with the shower, slice the waterproof sealant, and then<\/p>\n

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I removed the faceplate<\/p>\n

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Then I removed the water flow control<\/p>\n

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Then I removed the outer temperature control arm<\/p>\n

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Then I removed and dismantled the mixer control gears<\/p>\n

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Then I cut the waterproof sealant, and removed the backing plate from the wall.<\/p>\n

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Using the same BluTack and long screwdriver technique, I carefully removed the screws on the brass cover.<\/p>\n

Then I worked the mixing cartridge out of its seat and through the tiny gap.<\/p>\n

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Then I replaced the old mixing cartridge with the bright shiny one that had been delivered a few days ago.<\/p>\n

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Except.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t mount the bloody thing back in to the base unit.<\/p>\n

I spent two hours taking it out, making sure everything was good, checking every component was correctly\u00a0aligned, putting it back in and…<\/p>\n

Failing to get the thing to seat sufficiently deeply in to the base unit.<\/p>\n

Two.<\/p>\n

Hours.<\/p>\n

No amount of tea and toast could lift my spirits, and no amount of adjustment, tweaking and fiddling, could get the component sufficiently embedded.<\/p>\n

I took the new cartridge in to the kitchen and examined it very carefully.<\/p>\n

There was a tiny component, right on the back end of the new mixer cartridge, that rotated.<\/p>\n

The same component on the old mixer cartridge didn’t.<\/p>\n

Bugger.<\/p>\n

It was broken.<\/p>\n

I gave up.<\/p>\n

Once again I remounted the old cartridge.<\/p>\n

It slid straight in to the base plate.<\/p>\n

I put everything back together.<\/p>\n

Did the Mission Impossible bomb disposal thing with BluTack and a long screwdriver.<\/p>\n

Resealed the backing plate.<\/p>\n

And felt thoroughly dejected.<\/p>\n

The next day I called the Shower Doctor. They agreed to send me a replacement.<\/p>\n

Guess what I would be doing the following Saturday?<\/p>\n

(to be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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