"JimK" wrote in message
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On Feb 18, 1:24 pm, Mike wrote:
On Feb 18, 1:19 pm, JimK wrote:



On Feb 18, 10:24 am, JimK wrote:

On Feb 18, 10:17 am, RobertL wrote:

On Feb 18, 9:32 am, JimK wrote:

have a kitchen mixer (Bristan I think) installed abt 5yrs ago.
recently cold water flow has been reducing (hot fine 3bar!). This
morning cold is only a trickle - hot still fine.....

(both h&c supplied by a 3bar pump, rest of house unaffected)

Had a quick google most 1/4 turn queries are about dripping etc -
anyone had this low/no flow prob before? any pointers where I'm
heading? new cartridge? something else?

thanks for any tips
JimK

Is there a mesh filter somewhere that has got clogged? I had
something similar and found that there was a mesh filter on the tap
inlet clogged with little bits of bosswhite fro ma job elsewhere in
the house!

Robert

that's a good idea - I'll check - twas a long while ago!!
ta
JimK

well just investigated further and decided to try and backflush any
crap back from tap and then out of a wash/mc tap on same leg of
pipework....took a few goes but something moved....

However when flushing the wm tap with full pressure cold supply
restored all was going well til I heard and felt *something" in the
pipe *move* and reduce the flow to the wm tap?? WTF is in there? and
how to get it out?!
Cheers
JimK

Probably not much other way than to take the tap off. Do you have
isolator valves?

er somewhat remotely yes - will tinker and see what's going on..

JimK

Have you fitted one of those 'self drilling' washing machine taps? Could be
the bit of pipe that gets cut away that is moving.

A mate had a noise in a pipe - it turned out to be a nut that had held the
tap washer in an earlier installation.