Buying a kitchen tap - what rated pressure tap do i need?

kifi

Thinking of getting a new kitchen tap from Germany or the UK. I know that they use different size pipes, so an additional fitting will be required, but I am wondering about the pressure. I think that for taps elsewhere in the house, 0.2 bar rated will work.

As the kitchen tap is normally fed from the mains, does this mean that I can buy pretty much any pressure rated tap, or should this too be 0.2 bar?

rolion

0.2 bar pressure from mains !? I tought that is 1.5 !
You have the cold feed from main AND hot feeding off the internal DHW system.

I repeat myself...best long term is not the low pressure .

kifi

rolion wrote: »

0.2 bar pressure from mains !? I tought that is 1.5 !
You have the cold feed from main AND hot feeding off the internal DHW system.

I repeat myself...best long term is not the low pressure .

I have read in quite a few places where people have had problems using taps rated for 1 bar and higher, as most irish systems are around about the 0.2 bar.

Sleeper12

kifi wrote:

I have read in quite a few places where people have had problems using taps rated for 1 bar and higher, as most irish systems are around about the 0.2 bar.

Most bathrooms upstairs have .25 bar of pressure. Most kitchen downstairs have .50 bar of pressure.
Upstairs taps for high pressure systems give bad pressure and little water unless pumped
Downstairs you'll have .50 bar for the hot and anything from 1 to 3 bar from the cold mains water

kifi

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Most bathrooms upstairs have .25 bar of pressure. Most kitchen downstairs have .50 bar of pressure.
Upstairs taps for high pressure systems give bad pressure and little water unless pumped
Downstairs you'll have .50 bar for the hot and anything from 1 to 3 bar from the cold mains water

Thanks, so no special "low pressure tap" should be required for the kitchen? The standard UK/European taps should work?

Sleeper12

kifi wrote:

Thanks, so no special "low pressure tap" should be required for the kitchen? The standard UK/European taps should work?

I can't see why not. The cold feed is high pressure

Graham

kifi wrote: »

Thanks, so no special "low pressure tap" should be required for the kitchen? The standard UK/European taps should work?

We had no problems with taps sourced in Germany for the kitchen sink. Upstairs sinks/bath/shower on a pump so no problems there either.