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WHICH tap to be kept on?

  • 10-01-2010 9:26pm
    #1
    DinnyBatman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭


    A lot of the recent posts recommend leaving a tap trickling at night to stop the pipes freezing. I rang our plumber and he recommended the same.
    My question is, can i leave ANY tap running? All the posts i read say that the kitchen tap should be left on. We have our own water supply, but we have an open plan kitchen / living area and the sound of the tap running constantly is driving me and mrs batman crazy.:(


Comments

  • #2
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,000 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    Best of it's the one closest to the outside supply. Kitchen.


  • #3
    neilthefunkeone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    you just need a dribble.. doesnt have to be on full flow... Kitchen cold tap afaik!


  • #4
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    I dont know what part of the country you are in, but if it hasn't frozen by now, i dont think it will tonight.


  • #5
    Pete M.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    Tis usually the kitchen cold tap alright, which is the mains supply in, the one that also feeds the header tank in your attic.
    I suppose if you left another tap running it would keep topping up in the attic anyway, but to be sure to be sure, leave the kitchen tap running.
    But then you have the sound of the tank filling all the time.
    The joys of open plan living eh....


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