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Following up on squeaky's suggestion, I've been looking at the Franke range of monoblock kitchen taps and they are all listed as requiring either 0.3 or 0.37 or 0.39 bar. My taps are fed from stored hot water with a head of 3.6m to the top level in the cold storage tank that feeds it. The cold...

Thanks squeaky, of course that begs the question: are Franke as good now as they were ten years ago? Let's hope so, and I'll ask SWMBO to look at their range.

Hi everyone, it's time for my new kitchen to be finished off. One of the items is a new swan-neck chrome finish monoblock tap for the new undermount sink. Now, I've been searching around on this forum for quite a bit, and there's lots of posts about these taps and their problems, most of...

Ah, never thought of that one @doitall, thanks. @picasso, no water meter here, although many of the neighbours do have. As it's a bank holiday weekend, I'll not contact the water company yet, but will do later.

Yes, that would be a good explanation. AFAIK, there isn't a NRV in the system, except the one on the outside tap. Do kitchen sink mixer taps have them internally? But even then, it would be in the wrong place to give this effect. The supply to the shower is at the highest point on the...

Hi everyone, I've never encountered anything like this before and wondered if anyone can explain what's causing it? My house has mains water pressure to all the cold taps, the shower and toilet, the cold water storage tank and the heating open system header tank. The cold storage tank seems to...

OK, an update on this, and it has been solved. I was aware that the pipes got crossed somewhere between the under stair and the emergence below the unserviceable cylinder. What I discovered today was that they crossed again behind the cylinder, due to the right hand pipe serving the lower...

Cure for Over Pumping.

Pics? Well, here goes. HtgAccess1 and 2 show the impossible to service DHW cylinder, with the two 22mm connectors above, where I blanked off the feed and vent pipes. HtgPipes1 shows the pipe arrangement in the under stair space. The top horizontal pipe with the pipe thermometer shows the...

To connect hose to flush coil.

The DHW cylinder, snug in it's cupboard.

Top of cylinder with shelf removed for access. Two 22mm straight connectors, to blank off during flushing.