Hi All

Seems to be 'plumbing month' at the moment.
Replaced the bath/shower mixer because it appeared to be
somewhat 2nd-hand (though it was installed in a new build) and
repairing the washers etc would still leave the gouge marks
where somebody had (ab)used a big adjustable wrench...

....and now the basin hot tap in the other bathroom's playing silly wotsits.

Symptoms - sometimes the tap behaves perfectly - other times you can
only get a trickle of water through it. Used to understand the
'old-fashioned' taps with washers - but I suspect this one -
though it looks like a conventional basin tap, works differently.

Taps look like this
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/11783/...asin-Taps-Pair

Local (usually!) friendly plumbers' merchants weren't much use -
had replacement mechanism for the 'modern' type (with a knob rather then
'cross-shaped' handle) - but didn't seem to think that these would fit
my tap...

So - likely to be a simple 'strip down, clean up, reassemble' job -
or something more fundamental, do you think ?
The cold tap does two complete revolutions from 'off' to 'full on'
- the hot one's binding up after about 1 revolution..

Guidance appreciated!
Thanks
Adrian