IKEA Alsvik tap dripping. Which cartridge?

[skwdenyer]

I do admire your collective efforts, but are replacement taps really that expensive in comparison to all this time spent?

[Tampon]

Chuck money at a situation helps most things.

This is a battle of man versus mixer tap.

There is nothing else wrong with the £100 tap other than a couple of quid replacement part. I wouldn't chuck my car because I was struggling to find an alternator.

[skwdenyer]

Tampon said:

Chuck money at a situation helps most things.

This is a battle of man versus mixer tap.

There is nothing else wrong with the £100 tap other than a couple of quid replacement part. I wouldn't chuck my car because I was struggling to find an alternator.

As I said no criticism - man vs mixer tap I can relate to It just seemed that (assuming time has a value) that chucking money at the problem was actually what was happening!

[Tampon]

skwdenyer said:

As I said no criticism - man vs mixer tap I can relate to It just seemed that (assuming time has a value) that chucking money at the problem was actually what was happening!

Your right, it has gone to far now. Tap or bust.

[drivingmenuts]

Probably should have done an image search earlier - because that leads directly to the required cartridge.

Here is an option in the UK, but there are quite a few other European sites that offer the cartridge: https://www.bathroomspareparts.co.uk/damixa-cerami... - apparently made by Damixa now, not Kerox. At £21.17 it's a bit steep really and at that price it's getting hard to justify the investment! Having said that I've also come across this cartridge for 30-40 euros on many sites, and as much as 70+ USD on an American site. If you're planning on going to Belgrade any time soon, then you can pick one up there for under 4 euros: https://prodaja.diplon.net/kupi/kerox-mesacka-glav...

Finally, if you search for Damixa 2362300, you'll come up with a lot of sites (including Amazon - though it's unavailable https://www.amazon.co.uk/Damixa-Kn35-Ceramic-Cartr... offering our unique cartridge (made in "Denmark") - for 30-40 euros.

I'm going to have one last look inside the tap on the weekend, and see if a different generic scuba-ish cartridge might do the job. Where I live, I've only seen it online for around 50 GBP, so I'm going to try something cheaper and see if works, otherwise time to move on!

To summarise, the relevant different parts numbers for this cartridge are:

2362300 (DAMIXA)
KN-35A
KN35