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Garden tap low pressure or flow
Folks,
I'm hoping someone could help with a problem i have with a garden tap. I've recently moved in to a house about 4 years old, the garden tap looks like it was installed in a couple of minutes by the housing developer straight through the kitchen wall to the garden. There is a T piece from the cold water pipe under the sink, the main pipe goes along the back of the cabinet a few inches then up the kitchen sink tap and the other goes up a couple of inches and then straight out through the wall to a tap. There is a stop tap up from the T piece to shut water off to the garden. With the stop tap fully open the garden tap as extremely low flow of water, hardly enough to move a sprinkler connected with any length of pipe. If i run the cold tap in the kitchen sink for a couple of seconds the flow increase and the sprinkler is able to work, but only covers 4-5 feet either side. The kitchen sink taps are fine as are every other tap in the house. I'm wondering whether the stop tap or i guess there is a one way valve somewhere in the piper before the tap to prevent contaminants from coming back up the garden tap to the water supply. But before I take anything apart I wondered if anyone could recommend a place to start? Thanks in advance Ben. |
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Hi Ben
There is a T piece from the cold water pipe under the sink, Just a possibility. Is the tee piece one of those self cutting fittings? If so, the small circular blank the fitting cuts out could be causing a blockage. Dave |
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