Tap Problem

[m0t]

We have had a new bathroom suite installed but the bathroom taps are useless. The flow we are getting from them is poor, I filled the bath up earlier and timed it at 30 minutes whereas before it took around 10.

I checked the ball valves and they are fully opened, and under the advice found on another forum I inspected the valve (the tap is a single lever mixer type).

I opened the valve up and could see no blockages, so decided to test the flow with the valve removed. With the valve loosened so that it was no longer operational and the inlet was flowing through the tap unrestricted the flow of water improved massively.

It appears as though the cartridge type on/off valve in the tap is creating too much of a restriction on the water reduce its flow rate massively. Is there anything I can do about this? I have searched for replacement cartridge valves but can't find much and theres no guarantee that a different one would improve the flow at all.

Can anyone help?

 

[Newboy]

Most likely the tap is designed for high pressure systems - do you have loft tanks and a hot water cylinder?

If you know the name of the tap manufacturer then it might be worth asking them if they offer a low pressure cartridge - if not then you may have to change the tap for a more suitable type

 

[m0t]

We have loft tanks and a hot water cylinder, tap supplier was b&q and we don't know who actually made them.

 

[Whitespirit66]

B&Queue unbranded taps are cr*p. Bin them, and get yourself some quality ones that can be used on low pressure systems like yours.

 

[m0t]

B&Queue unbranded taps are cr*p. Bin them, and get yourself some quality ones that can be used on low pressure systems like yours.

Thats almost exactly what our neighbour said. Gonna have to find some in a similar style though because the basin has the same tap on it. Can't really afford to change that one as well.