Tap Replacement in Cambridge
Cambridge taps have a notoriously short working life — Cambridge Water's chalk-aquifer hardness works its way through ceramic cartridges and brass waterways faster than in most of the country. Taps don't last forever. They start dripping, the handles stiffen up, the spout corrodes, and eventually they're wasting water and costing you money. A single dripping tap can waste over 5,000 litres a year — that's showing up on your water bill whether you notice it or not.
Across Cambridge we replace every kind of tap; the hard water doesn't care whether it's a kitchen monobloc in a Mill Road student house or a designer basin mixer in a Newnham conservation-area townhouse. We replace all types of taps across Cambridge — kitchen and bathroom, monobloc and deck-mounted, wall-mounted and pull-out spray. If you've bought a tap yourself, we'll fit it. If you want us to supply one, we'll recommend something that suits your setup, your water pressure, and your budget. Clean swap with no mess left behind.
We cover the town centre, Newnham, Cherry Hinton, Trumpington Meadows, and the surrounding villages. When we replace a tap, we check the isolation valves underneath and swap them if they're seized or weeping — so you can actually turn off individual taps in future without shutting off the whole house. We replace the flexi-hoses at the same time if they're old or corroded. No point fitting a new tap on dodgy connections.
Cambridge's hardest-working taps are the kitchen sink mixers, and limescale-destroyed ceramic cartridges are the single most common failure we see across the city. Across Cambridge the most common tap calls we get are the slow-drip kitchen monobloc that's finally given up after years of fighting the limescale, the bathroom basin tap that's stiff because the cartridge has scaled solid, and the bath filler that won't shut off properly. All three are usually fixable with the right brass-bodied replacement and a fresh set of isolation valves. We stock the brands we trust and won't recommend the throwaway models that fail again within two years.
