Kitchen tap (cold only) splutter!!

Chin

Hello

Bit of an annoying issue!!
The COLD water out of my kitchen tap splutters and sprays everywhere.
It's as if the pressure is far too powerful.
The hot is lovely, just the cold that is wild.

The other cold taps are fine, just the kitchen one.

Before I go out and potentially spunk £100 odd on a new tap can anyone else envisage why this might be happening?
Does the tap sound knackered?

I've tried turning the water down from the main stop under the sink but it makes no difference, it still sprays all over the place by just turning it on ever so slightly.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Swipe

No need to spend £100 on a tap. I bought a pair for £16 and they look and work fine with no drips.

plumb1_2

Fit a flow limit valve

keystone

Or you might just clear the carp out from the spout that the mains have brought in.

Cheers

DVardysShadow

keystone wrote: »

Or you might just clear the carp out from the spout that the mains have brought in.

Cheers

I didn't think there were any fish in mains water, let alone carp.

birkee

It's NOT the tap!

My first concern would be where the cold water was coming from. You describe symptoms which sound like a tank fed water supply with air in the pipes. Turn off the water supply, and see if the cold water still comes out of the tap. IMPORTANT!!
I suppose it IS possible, that the cold supply has gone up, and then back down again putting a high point in the pipes that's trapping air.

You MUST NOT feed a kitchen cold tap from a tank. Your health is at risk.

keystone

DVardysShadow wrote: »

I didn't think there were any fish in mains water, let alone carp.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:You'd be surpeiseed what comes in through the mains.

Cheers

keystone

birkee wrote: »

It's NOT the tap!

You are right but it is crap (for DVs benefit) in the tap.

My first concern would be where the cold water was coming from. You describe symptoms which sound like a tank fed water supply with air in the pipes. Turn off the water supply, and see if the cold water still comes out of the tap. IMPORTANT!!
I suppose it IS possible, that the cold supply has gone up, and then back down again putting a high point in the pipes that's trapping air.

You are jumping to the wrong conclusion methinks. The balance of probablility is that it is not air UNLESS the water company have had the water supplies off in which case yes there will be air but it will clear very rapidly.

You MUST NOT feed a kitchen cold tap from a tank. Your health is at risk.

It is a requirement that at least one drawoff is mains fed. This is nearly always the kitchen tap as it will be adjacent to the incomer and stopcock.

Cheers

birkee

keystone wrote: »

You are right but it is crap (for DVs benefit) in the tap.

You are jumping to the wrong conclusion methinks. The balance of probablility is that it is not air UNLESS the water company have had the water supplies off in which case yes there will be air but it will clear very rapidly.

It is a requirement that at least one drawoff is mains fed. This is nearly always the kitchen tap as it will be adjacent to the incomer and stopcock.

Cheers

Appreciate your observations, but....
if it was crap in the tap, it would result in a restricted water flow, not the spluttering described. It won't keep blocking and unblocking, it will block once and remain pinned in place by water flow.

It could be air in the pipes, if another one of the unknowing people have done some plumbing in the property. A pipe that goes up, before it comes down. Air from the water company supply, would clear the first time the tap was used probably.

p.s. There should be TWO water draw off's from the mains. The other being the bathroom washbasin because of teethcleaning etc. Water from tanks should not be used internally (mouth)

tyllwyd

Its not going to fix the underlying problem, but my gran used to always use a rubber tube you push onto the end of the tap to stop water spraying around. I bought one the other day from an old-fashioned hardware store.

keystone

birkee wrote: »

Appreciate your observations, but....
if it was crap in the tap, it would result in a restricted water flow, not the spluttering described. It won't keep blocking and unblocking, it will block once and remain pinned in place by water flow.

It will if its one or two pieces of gravel bouncing around in there. Anyway theres no point in arguing about it by either thee or me. All the OP needs to do is take the spout off and clear anything out that is in there.

It could be air in the pipes, if another one of the unknowing people have done some plumbing in the property. A pipe that goes up, before it comes down.

But in the case of a kitchen tap your scenario is highly unlikely and there is little point in frightening the OP that they might have unhealthy supplies when the overwhelming balance of probablility is that they don't.

Air from the water company supply, would clear the first time the tap was used probably.

Yes as I said very rapidly but that wan't my point.

p.s. There should be TWO water draw off's from the mains. The other being the bathroom washbasin because of teethcleaning etc. Water from tanks should not be used internally (mouth)

I said requirement and I said at least. One satisfies the regs.

Cheers