Kitchen mixer tap suitable for low pressure/bar?

paddy147

Can anyone reccomend a nice and reasonably priced kitchen mixer tap that will work well with low water pressure/bar.

Had a look in BnQ and Homebase today,but couldnt see anything that said it would work with low pressure/bar water.The staff member in the kitchen department couldnt tell me either.

Is the water pressure/bar in Ireland about 0,3-0.5 bar or something like that??

Looking for a mixer tap like the one below in the pic.Anyone any ideas what and where to get 1??

Thanks.:)

Joey the lips

If you call into a plumbers providers like DPL or better still phone RT Large in bluebell. They have a catalogue called "Ultra" by hudson reed. It has plenty of low pressure kitchen taps.

The hot needs to be 0.2 bar to work. The cold will generally always work but if you dont get it right it will be a crap mixer.

Forget the outlets... B&Q Homebase Woodies.

paddy147

Joey the lips wrote: »

If you call into a plumbers providers like DPL or better still phone RT Large in bluebell. They have a catalogue called "Ultra" by hudson reed. It has plenty of low pressure kitchen taps.

The hot needs to be 0.2 bar to work. The cold will generally always work but if you dont get it right it will be a crap mixer.

Forget the outlets... B&Q Homebase Woodies.

Thanks.:)


You say the hot needs to be 0.2 to flow propperly.

Would that be why the hot water flow from that tap in the pic above is alot poorer than the cold water flow??

Joey the lips

paddy147 wrote: »

Thanks.:)


You say the hot needs to be 0.2 to flow propperly.

Would that be why the hot water flow from that tap in the pic above is alot poorer than the cold water flow??

Thats the mistake people make. They assume the tap is on the kitchen mains but only the cold is on mains. So yes the hot needs to be low. as low as possible.

Some branded taps like frankie have flow adjusters but you'll pay for this..

paddy147

Joey the lips wrote: »

Thats the mistake people make. They assume the tap is on the kitchen mains but only the cold is on mains. So yes the hot needs to be low. as low as possible.

Some branded taps like frankie have flow adjusters but you'll pay for this..

Thats the problem Im having,since the kitchen sink tap was changed over to that tap in the pic above.

Mains cold water is fine,hot water is crap/dismal,when compared to mains cold water.:(

Any ideas what sort of money for a suitable tap then??

I dont want to or done need top be spending out mad money on a tap,so I would appreciate you're advice on waht you wopuld rekon.

Feel free to PM me some tap ideas or names/proces,if you wish to.

Thanks.:)

Marcanthony

paddy147 wrote: »

Thats the problem Im having,since the kitchen sink tap was changed over to that tap in the pic above.

Mains cold water is fine,hot water is crap/dismal,when compared to mains cold water.:(

Any ideas what sort of money for a suitable tap then??

I dont want to or done need top be spending out mad money on a tap,so I would appreciate you're advice on waht you wopuld rekon.

Feel free to PM me some tap ideas or names/proces,if you wish to.

Thanks.:)

Hi Paddy. This is just my own opinion. However what I done in my own home was installed under water sink heater under the kitchen sink.Its mains supply feeding the heater and gives water at request to the sink at an equal pressure to the mains supply. Works perfect.
The reason I did this is the hot water supply feeding the kitchen was piped in 1/2 inch copper back to nthe hotpress and because of this pressure was bad and took approx 1 0r 2 mins for the hot water to come through.
I am in Kilarney at the moment. But I will be in Dublin next week. We may have one or two salvaged working heaters in our stores. if you want you can pick one up free of charge.You can have one. They are not that hard to install.

paddy147

Marcanthony wrote: »

Hi Paddy. This is just my own opinion. However what I done in my own home was installed under water sink heater under the kitchen sink.Its mains supply feeding the heater and gives water at request to the sink at an equal pressure to the mains supply. Works perfect.
The reason I did this is the hot water supply feeding the kitchen was piped in 1/2 inch copper back to nthe hotpress and because of this pressure was bad and took approx 1 0r 2 mins for the hot water to come through.
I am in Kilarney at the moment. But I will be in Dublin next week. We may have one or two salvaged working heaters in our stores. if you want you can pick one up free of charge.You can have one. They are not that hard to install.

Thanks,I have hot water via the solar system,so I dont want to start sticking heaters under the sink..

Out of curiosity,what diamater pipe should be used for the plumbing of the hot water??

Joey the lips

Marcanthony wrote: »

Hi Paddy. This is just my own opinion. However what I done in my own home was installed under water sink heater under the kitchen sink.Its mains supply feeding the heater and gives water at request to the sink at an equal pressure to the mains supply. Works perfect.
The reason I did this is the hot water supply feeding the kitchen was piped in 1/2 inch copper back to nthe hotpress and because of this pressure was bad and took approx 1 0r 2 mins for the hot water to come through.
I am in Kilarney at the moment. But I will be in Dublin next week. We may have one or two salvaged working heaters in our stores. if you want you can pick one up free of charge.You can have one. They are not that hard to install.

This is an absolute crazy thing to do unless you have the associated problems you mention. If he is willing to go through the plumbing and electrical work for this then ordering a simple propper tap would be a whole lot easier.

Paddy if you having trouble finding a tap you will get one in the likes of cash and carry kitchens. However my first bet would be to go to DPL and ask them to order you one from RT Large. It should be around 50 cheaper than a kitchen place.

paddy147

Joey the lips wrote: »

This is an absolute crazy thing to do unless you have the associated problems you mention. If he is willing to go through the plumbing and electrical work for this then ordering a simple propper tap would be a whole lot easier.

Paddy if you having trouble finding a tap you will get one in the likes of cash and carry kitchens. However my first bet would be to go to DPL and ask them to order you one from RT Large. It should be around 50 cheaper than a kitchen place.

Thanks for the help Joey.:)