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[chrislocalboy]

Just wondering if anyone with the knowledge can give me any guidance, have recently moved into a new house and the water pressure in the bathroom sink mixer tap is pants!! the bath taps are working fine however.

Have had a quick look myself and have found 2 pipes at the back of the sink (hot and cold) with little valves on which appear to be the cut the water off, these are both set to where they should be..... which is on

Anyone got any suggestions? does this sound like it can be fixed easily or will it require my floor ripping up etc

Cheers

 

[chrislocalboy]

Are the taps fed from the mains, or from a header tank in the loft?

I have messed with the valves and they make no difference..... I think the taps are fed from the header tank but to be honest am not entirely sure.

 

[chrislocalboy]

the screw on the valve should line up with the flow. some new taps (if not most) only have a tiny inlet after the pipe, about 1.5mm. this would kill pressure

Yes both of the screws line up with the flow........ this other screw your talking about.... will it be on the pipes really close to the tap?

 

[chrislocalboy]

I had this once and it was air locks (especially if the house has been empty for a bit)...

The solution was (paid £30 call out to find this out - well worth it !) 5 minutes:

1) Attach hose pipe to kitchen tap (off mains with heaps of pressure)
2) Attach to upstairs cold tap
3) Turn on both taps for 30 seconds or so

The effect is to force water back up into the hader tank/hot water tank. The results no more air locks !

The tap is a mixer tap so this may not be possible, might be worth a try if I can manage to get my hose pipe to fit over the end of the mixer but I don't think I'll be able to.

Thanks for the suggestion

 

[chrislocalboy]

Anyone got any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance