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Oops... High pressure kitchen tap

  • 03-09-2024 10:30pm
    #1
    Bluefoam
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    I got carried away today and ordered a kitchen tap without paying attention to hight/low water pressure…

    The tap needs 1 bar... Can I keep it or do I need to return it? Amazon won't let me cancel the order.

    I measured my water flow this evening and I'm getting about 100ml/second…

    https://amzn.eu/d/3fBHz3O



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  • #2
    Lenar3556
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    Presumably your kitchen tap supplies mains water on the cold side - so this should be fine.

    If your hot water system isn’t pumped, then this won’t flow as fast. How high is the attic tank above the sink? Two story house?



  • #3
    John.G
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058367521/oops-high-pressure-kitchen-tap

    100ml/sec or 6LPM isn't bad if the tap is supplied from a CWSC at a 5M, 0.5bar head, you should expect sq root (1.0/0.5)*6, 8.5LPM at a pressure of 1.0bar, do these high pressure taps give (spec)a flowrate at 1.0bar?, I've rarely if ever seen it. My kitchen (Hot) tap flows 4.5LPM from the CWST



  • #4
    Shoog
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    Have a Lidl tap on the sink and ours is an open system. Most kitchen taps are now designed for pressurized systems. The water from the hot side is a mere dribble compared to the cold. It's functional but a bit of a pain, but we mainly use the cold side so we can live with it.

    I bet you will really struggle to find a kitchen tap not designed to work with a pressurized system as it would need a flow restrictor on the cold feed which I have never seen.



  • #5
    John.G
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    Mine is a Franke Moselle, Franke seem to make taps suitable for gravity feed but again don't tell you the flowrate at say 0.5M, my tap has 1/2ins (12.5mm ID) copper tails but most now come with 8/10mm (6MM ID) flexible tails which will reduce the flowrate. As stated above, my hot (gravity fed) tap flows 4.5LPM and the cold mains (2bar dynamic) fed tap flows 8.7LPM.

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  • #6
    Bluefoam
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    Thanks for the help. its a two storey house & yes the hot water is on a pump from the first floor.

    I'll go ahead and fit it, I've ordered a nozzle head for low pressure taps and might try it if i find the water pressure is too low.

    It's amazing how quickly they can ship an order when you try to cancel it 😅



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  • #7
    Bluefoam
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122580448#Comment_122580448

    Yeh, they are rated from 1bar+



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