Hi everyone,
We've just moved in to a property and the kitchen mixer tap has very poor hot water flow (from HW cylinder), while the cold water (from main) is fine, and they can't seem to mix at all. I understand the main cold water has higher pressure, but even when I move the tap to hot only, the flow is still extremely poor.
I have disconnected the hot tap and check the flow directly from the pipe and its perfectly fine. I suspect it is something to do with the cartridge (it is the 35mm mixer cartridge https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-35mm-ceramic-tap-cartridge/6086x). However even after I changed the cartridge, nothing has changed.
Where do you think the problem is? Is it inherent problem of mixer tap, or there is something I can do?
We've just moved in to a property and the kitchen mixer tap has very poor hot water flow (from HW cylinder), while the cold water (from main) is fine, and they can't seem to mix at all. I understand the main cold water has higher pressure, but even when I move the tap to hot only, the flow is still extremely poor.
I have disconnected the hot tap and check the flow directly from the pipe and its perfectly fine. I suspect it is something to do with the cartridge (it is the 35mm mixer cartridge https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-35mm-ceramic-tap-cartridge/6086x). However even after I changed the cartridge, nothing has changed.
Where do you think the problem is? Is it inherent problem of mixer tap, or there is something I can do?