Bit of a long saga*, but today the water company came out and fitted a new stopcock at the roadside, because they said the old one might be leaking. The chap said it would be much better to have a new stopcock anyway because the new kind are much easier to turn on/off than the old ones.
Anyway, the new one is plastic with a long T bar handle that sticks up so you can reach down to operate it. So far so good.
But as soon as they'd fitted it, we noticed a significant loss of flow in the house. The pressure seems OK. But as soon as you turn on more than 1 tap at a time, the flow reduces a lot. For example if the kitchen tap is on, and someone also flushes the toilet downstairs, then in the upstairs sink there is literally no water coming out. Not even a dribble. And having a shower upstairs we've lost our lovely powerful shower
Anyway, this evening we had the dishwasher on, and I was also running a bath downstairs for the kids, when I noticed water pooling on the kitchen floor. Traced it to the water filter housing under the kitchen sink. Very strange, that's never leaked before. Turned off the supply, took it apart, all looks fine. Changed the cartridge for good measure. Put it back together. Tried again, still leaks.
Turn off the bath. Try again. No leak. Turn on the bath again. No leak. Turn on dishwasher and bath. No leak. So now nothing's leaking but I'm wondering what he hell happened. Seems like turning off the bath in the other room was the thing that stopped the leak?? Is it a pressure spike of some kind? Why would a leak occur when water is being drawn from somewhere else, surely there should be less pressure at that time?
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Anyway, the new one is plastic with a long T bar handle that sticks up so you can reach down to operate it. So far so good.
But as soon as they'd fitted it, we noticed a significant loss of flow in the house. The pressure seems OK. But as soon as you turn on more than 1 tap at a time, the flow reduces a lot. For example if the kitchen tap is on, and someone also flushes the toilet downstairs, then in the upstairs sink there is literally no water coming out. Not even a dribble. And having a shower upstairs we've lost our lovely powerful shower
Anyway, this evening we had the dishwasher on, and I was also running a bath downstairs for the kids, when I noticed water pooling on the kitchen floor. Traced it to the water filter housing under the kitchen sink. Very strange, that's never leaked before. Turned off the supply, took it apart, all looks fine. Changed the cartridge for good measure. Put it back together. Tried again, still leaks.
Turn off the bath. Try again. No leak. Turn on the bath again. No leak. Turn on dishwasher and bath. No leak. So now nothing's leaking but I'm wondering what he hell happened. Seems like turning off the bath in the other room was the thing that stopped the leak?? Is it a pressure spike of some kind? Why would a leak occur when water is being drawn from somewhere else, surely there should be less pressure at that time?
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
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