ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

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

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

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

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

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

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

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

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

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?

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

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

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

"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.

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

On Feb 18, 2:01 pm, "John" wrote:
"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.


not me guv!
quite extensive re-plumbing in last 12m or so but not this last 8ft
"as the crow plumbs"... expect the "never to work here again" plummers
strike again...

JimK

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:32:33 -0800 (PST), JimK
wrote:


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?

Last one I had was fine gravel in the pipe after some work had been
done on the mains. Over several weeks the tap got slower until SWMBO
issued a directive that "something had to be done". Getting it out
involved removing the tap and the tails.

ceramic 1/4 turn tap query
 

On Feb 18, 5:05 pm, Peter Parry wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:32:33 -0800 (PST), JimK

wrote:

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?

Last one I had was fine gravel in the pipe after some work had been
done on the mains. Over several weeks the tap got slower until SWMBO
issued a directive that "something had to be done". Getting it out
involved removing the tap and the tails.

well mystery solved/removed = a plug of polystyrene anyone?!?!

quite how that got in is another good question...

do those bulk packs of 15mm pipe have PS packaging to protect pipe
ends?

JimK