Motorhome specific tap?

[Ray-Vic]

I cocked up royally and although I drained down etc I forgot to open the kitchen tap. Needless to say, with all the cold weather the tap has been damaged by expanding water (ice) and needs to be replaced. Looking at a like-for-like it's over £100!!, yet barring the tails appears to be a standard tap.

I am on a pressure switch system so no micro switches in the taps.

Has anyone replaced the kitchen tap for a normal one by swapping over the tails from the existing one as this appears to be a ridiculously inflated price for a tap, the equivalent of which for a home is about £40.

Many thanks.

 

[lorger]

Are you sure it’s not just the cartridge that went, these are under £20 and normally the cause of a leak after freezing.

 

[lorger]

Forgot to add the photo, this is what your cartridge will look like.

Just quick search on amazon, you’ll find them elsewhere.

 

[Ray-Vic]

No it's actually the plastic chrome collar that holds the swan neck in place. This is shattered and the swan neck had popped out. It's pretty broken unfortunately.

 

[Insider]

Based in Ireland - lots of difficulty getting the cartridges and/or the tap and it happend to me twice so in the end I ordered a converter from amazon - link - that was John guest 1/2"BSP to 12mm and like some other purchasers I got 3/4"BSP to 12mm so just got a fitting for 2 quid from screwfix to go from 1/2 to 3/4. Bought a tap from B&Q and fitted it. So far so good and a lot easier to interface with now that it's normal household plumbing. Like you I am pressure based so had no issue with micro switches.

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[Sue and Rick]

Plenty on ebay.
£35-£40

 

[Jean-luc]

The bathroom tap in my Rapido started leaking a few years ago, I replaced it with an ordinary domestic unit from B&Q at a fraction of the price Rapido were quoting.
The only modification needed was a slight increase in the diameter of the existing hole to allow the B&Q unit to fit.
Everything is perfect since.

 

[Insider]

The bathroom tap in my Rapido started leaking a few years ago, I replaced it with an ordinary domestic unit from B&Q at a fraction of the price Rapido were quoting.
The only modification needed was a slight increase in the diameter of the existing hole to allow the B&Q unit to fit.
Everything is perfect since.

Jean-luc....another Midleton guy....small world. How ya

 

[Carpmart]

My bathroom tap in the Motorhome is now a nice ‘non motorhome’ one from Screwfix… can’t remember if I utilised existing tails, but they are all pretty generic…