design fault with tap causes flood...help

DevCoder

Zandoni wrote: »

I doubt this was a cheap tap.

Why not? There are plenty of cheap waterfall taps out there, some do style over substance (or attempt to) and depending on the end of the waterfall spout or how its angled then good old physics can kick in with water under low pressure flow.

This for example, although to me that angle smacks of design flaw anyway (the runback issue is even mentioned in one review).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BATTERY-powered-LED-Waterfall-Faucet/dp/B00EDYHPW0

Zandoni

krisdorey wrote: »

Why not? There are plenty of cheap waterfall taps out there, some do style over substance (or attempt to) and depending on the end of the waterfall spout or how its angled then good old physics can kick in with water under low pressure flow.

This for example, although to me that angle smacks of design flaw anyway (the runback issue is even mentioned in one review).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BATTERY-powered-LED-Waterfall-Faucet/dp/B00EDYHPW0

The OP has probably gone now so I can't say how expensive it was. Whatever it cost though it should be designed better.

Wow that one on your link is one of the most tacky things I've ever seen.

DevCoder

Im not sure its that good, tacky would be a compliment.

Ectophile

I can't help thinking that the problem is not so much the tap - it's the basin that's badly designed. If water gets onto the edge of the basin - however it happens - it should run down into the basin. If instead it runs off the side and onto the floor, then whoever designed the basin was only interested in how good it looked, and threw common sense design out of the window.

That said, I wonder if the problem could fixed by re-hanging the basin on the wall, but with an ever-so-subtle lean forward, so the water runs the way it should. And check that the whole thing isn't on the tilt from side-to-side.