I bought a good set of gaskets for 50 rubles, in Fix Price, for self-repair of mixers. I tell you where to apply it

  • Dec 16, 2020

Sometimes customers are asked to have a leaking mixer repaired. Repair cost: one gasket costing two rubles and five minutes of time. For such a call I take at least 500 rubles. If the owner of the apartment had a desire and such a repair kit, he would have repaired it himself

Plumbing repair kit

In the set itself there is a FUM tape and many gaskets of various types. And not only gaskets, I show in more detail:

Fum tape

Home craftsmen quite often use it to seal threads, its quality is mediocre, but in an emergency it can help.

I divided the bunch of seals into several parts.

Set metal, plastic, iron and paper products.

  1. Foamed polyethylene gaskets. They are usually installed in drain siphons, after cleaning, it happens that the old gasket has lost its shape, is lost or even broken. Therefore, such seals are necessary for the home craftsman.
  2. The red spacers are made of highly compressed paper, I installed them in "American" ones where the gap is minimal. This situation happens when replacing meters.
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  3. The metal ring is applied... Honestly, I don't know where it is used, can you tell us in the comments? If you know.
  4. White rings, with a cutout, are used to fix the "gander" of the mixer.

5. Yellow, half rings are used to fix the valve stem of the axle box, quite often in mixers they rust and fall off.

Rubber products

Left half, round gaskets are installed in flexible hoses, metal-plastic fittings or in the "gander" mixers.

The right half, flat rubber seals, fit into clamping nuts, for example in shower heads or when changing water meters.

The rest of the rubber goods are used in valve-type crane boxes.

Such a set is not sold in plumbing stores, it is more profitable for them to sell each gasket at three times the price, or mini sets at a high price.

An excellent, cheap set can be bought in almost every city where there is a Fix Price store, in the section where screwdrivers, hammers and car parts are sold. Do not spare 50 rubles. And when a small rubber band is urgently needed and it will be at your fingertips. I hope you remember the plumber with a kind word.