Have a cold tap on the bathroom sink that is spluttering, knocking, has very inconsistent flow rate and the pipework hums at low flow rates.
Scottish water were working on the main outside a few days ago and now pressure seems very high over what was previously a decent flow anyway.
It's a first floor flat, and all mains fed, no storage tank. There are only three cold taps - kitchen sink, bath and bathroom sink.
The kitchen tap was affected by the work initially but quickly settled down. The bathroom sink tap is the problem and the bath tap is also slightly affected.
This is my girlfriends flat and I'm not very familiar with the layout of the plumbing. I'm hampered by everything being boxed in, and inaccessible. Although the place has been modernised inside it is an old building. I can't even find a stoptap within the dwelling and can't establish if there is one.
Obviously I suspect air in the pipework in the bathroom as well as the pressure being too high within the dwelling, contributing to the knocking. Does that sound about right? If so, the problem I have is not being able to reduce the flow at the stopcock although the knocking isn't bad and if I could deal with the air that would probably suffice.
Scottish water were working on the main outside a few days ago and now pressure seems very high over what was previously a decent flow anyway.
It's a first floor flat, and all mains fed, no storage tank. There are only three cold taps - kitchen sink, bath and bathroom sink.
The kitchen tap was affected by the work initially but quickly settled down. The bathroom sink tap is the problem and the bath tap is also slightly affected.
This is my girlfriends flat and I'm not very familiar with the layout of the plumbing. I'm hampered by everything being boxed in, and inaccessible. Although the place has been modernised inside it is an old building. I can't even find a stoptap within the dwelling and can't establish if there is one.
Obviously I suspect air in the pipework in the bathroom as well as the pressure being too high within the dwelling, contributing to the knocking. Does that sound about right? If so, the problem I have is not being able to reduce the flow at the stopcock although the knocking isn't bad and if I could deal with the air that would probably suffice.
