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With a mixer tap, each supply has its own connection.

To fit the new mixer tap follow step 2 in reverse.

In kitchens and bathrooms mixer taps are commonly used.

Inset single drainer stainless steel sink unit with mixer taps over.

Single drainer stainless steel sink unit with mixer taps and window to side aspect.

The single mixer tap was a brilliant, invaluably useful and ingeniously simple innovation.

Enamel sink and mixer tap inserted, like mine.

Bath/shower mixer taps cost from as little as £40.

The mixer tap takes the place of the existing bath taps, and can be used either to fill the bath or provide a shower.

Mixer taps may have a red-blue stripe or arrows indicating which side will give hot and which cold.

Instead he wanted a £100 fancy shell-shaped sink in 'Whisper' pink with a £68 mixer tap.

Mis-assembly of some single-valve mixer taps will exchange hot and cold even if the fixture has been plumbed correctly.

There are three main types of mixer tap: sink mixers, bath mixers and basin/bidet mixers.

When mixer taps leak at the base of the swivel nozzle, the washer or 'O'-ring there needs replacing.

Mixer taps were invented by Thomas Campbell of Saint John, New Brunswick and patented in 1880.

Rather than two separate valves, mixer taps frequently use a single, more complex, valve controlled by a single handle (single handle mixer).

A range of hexagon (Allen) keys is useful: small ones for jobs like removing grub screws on mixer taps; large ones for installing radiators.

"In South Kensington, they have removed carpets, installed wood flooring and put in mixer taps in hopes of attracting lucrative French tenants."

The other major disadvantage is that the water pressure from a roof tank is considerably lower than mains water pressure, making the use of mixer taps sometimes unpredictable.

Most mixer taps have screwed BSP connections: some one-hole mixers have plain copper tube - usually 15mm, but sometimes 12mm.

Champagne suite comprising panelled bath with mixer taps and shower attachment, pedestal wash hand basin and a low level close coupled W.C. Radiator.

Modern Pampas coloured suite comprising panel enclosed bath, low level w.c., pedestal wash basin, mixer tap, ceramic tiling, radiator, electric shaver point, window to rear.

To the right of the dining-room window there was a half glazed door and to the right of that the kitc, with brown wall units and a chrome mixer tap stickong up above the windowsill.

For baths and showers, mixer taps frequently incorporate some sort of pressure balancing feature so that the hot/cold mixture ratio will not be affected by transient changes in the pressure of one or the other of the supplies.