Single Lever Pull Out Spray Kitchen Sink Mixer Tap

[newshound]

I wouldn't expect it to be that, but I had one of the cheaper ones and that wasn't very robust. I forget exactly what failied, but I subsequently replaced it with a separate "flexi spray on a stalk" as seen in commercial kitchens. Just hot water of course, so I never drink it. But that has been much more satisfactory.

[S Viemeister]

We've had that sort of kitchen tap for years, and have not noticed an off taste from it. What does the water taste like from the bathroom tap?

[Jeff Layman]

Have you fitted a new cold water hose to the washing machine recently? When we experienced a strange odour and taste in cold water from the kitchen tap, we asked the Water Company if they'd changed anything recently. When they said they hadn't we reckoned it could only be the new flexible hose to the cold water inlet of the washing machine, even though this was only connected to the supply by a short pipe off a junction and then controlled by an isolating valve. After switching off the valve the strange odour and taste disappeared. We switched the valve on only to use the washing machine, and then switched it off again. After half a dozen or so washes we tried leaving the valve on all the time. There was no taste or smell then or since.

So, remarkably, it seems something was coming from the new pipe and working its way backwards to the water supply to the tap.

[Nick Odell]

Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the water company here have recently been changing the concentration of purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

Thanks!

Nick

[Nick Odell]

Good question, but it is not necessarily from the same supply. This is an apartment about 8,000 miles from the UK and because of the way the building was constructed, this size apartment has one cold water feed to the hot water boiler for the whole flat from a tank on the roof and three separate cold water feeds to various cold taps that might or might not come from the same tank. The taste of the bathroom water is not quite the same as the utility room water but both show the increase in chlorine style treatment but neither have what I would describe as the faint background taste of synthetic oil I detect in the kitchen water.

I wanted to eliminate the possibility that the kitchen tap hose might be causing the problem before trying to untangle what is going on on the roof.

Thanks,

Nick

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

If you have another mains water tap, that would prove it one way or the other I'd imagine. Brian

[Nick Odell]

As I said elsewhere in the thread, the water supply here is complicated. I wanted to eliminate the mixer tap hose from my enquiries so was asking for anecdotes about any known problems from that direction.

Nick