Emptying the Oras summer house faucet for winter season

Oras Safira summer cottage faucet with water heater

As summer has now turned to autumn it’s important to start organizing the summer house ready for the winter season. A well-prepared maintenance in the autumn helps to prevent repairs for the following year. The most important actions involve preventing any freezing and water damages. This can be done e.g. by draining any excess water from the sewers, water lines, boilers, traps and faucets.

This procedure must also be done with the unpressurized Oras summer house faucet and water heater. Follow these easy steps, and your summer house faucet will be good to go again in spring.

Turn off water to the faucet
Disconnect the appliance from the grid
Open the lever in center position
Wait until the water has drained
Unscrew the water inlet connector nut
Unscrew the connector nuts from the water heater connector bushings
Turn the container upside down to drain out the water (from the warm water coupling)
Wait until the water has drained
Detach the symbol plug and flat-headed fixing screw from the lever
Detach the covering cap
Unscrew the cartridge nut (38mm) with a bushing key (Oras number 910003)
Pull the cartridge out of the spindle (e.g. by using the handle)