I've seen bathroom mixer taps etc in Calais at a fraction of what they cost in the sheds here. Are they compatible with UK fittings, though? The vertical pipe spacing is 150mm, which is smaller than over here, but I think you can get eccentric legs to fit.
Also, I asked if they were for high pressure or low pressure systems and the answer I got was "normal pressure - 3 Bar". I'm none the wiser.
They're all designed for mains pressure. However, I've got similar sized ones in my bathroom which is fed from a header tank and they're ok there - although fed with 15 mm for most of the run. The bath, of course has 3/4" taps. I'd say they'd be ok for the kitchen too as maximum flow for the hot water from a storage system isn't actually *that* important.
As far as I know the threads are the same size but the pipes are different sizes. UK tap connectors should fit directly onto French taps but if you buy any sort of adapters in France you may well find that they do not fit UK copper pipe.
Water pressure is normally higher in France than the UK and a standard French installation does not have any header tank. Cold taps are fed straight off the main as are electrically heated hot water cylinders.
tripe! I spent a hell of lot of time in France and regularly went from London to Paris. The French are hard workers, although at times not smart workers. I rarely smelt BO on the Metro while the tube at times reaked. Their clothes were mainly pressed and neat, while the Brits were dishevelled with unpolished shoes. The French have a natural sense of style and colour co-ordination, while the Brits wore clashing colours.
Best to use a combi and only have only the shower off the water section to give a high pressure mains fed shower. The shower is the only draw-off that requires high pressure, the rest need "flow".
Have the kitchen tap off the mains. For the hot and cold water for the rest of the house use one of these.
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't take the shower off it, as the shower is off the combi. The cold taps can be taken off it and the hot taps too giving good mixing at the basins and bath. It is heated from the CH side of the combi like a normal system boiler. It is less than 6 foot high and takes about the same amount of space as Megaflow. What is gives is flow at atmospheric pressures. All the taps, except the shower mixer are low pressure. The kitchen mixer has to be high pressure cold low pressure hot.
Cheap and highly effective, no cold tanks or high pressure cylinders that may blow up and needing 28mm blow-off pipes. It can go in the loft out of the way.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like:
Friend of mine recently fitted a French kitchen mixer tap, only to find it was designed for mains pressure on both sides. The blending took place at the base of the neck, rather than at the tip. We finally got it sorted by fitting a pressure reducer on the mains inlet to the cold side. It wasn't perfect, but worked reasonably well.
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