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dormouse1953So I'm having trouble with a dripping tap. It's a mixer tap and it's not only dripping but where the stem goes into the top of the sink it is spurting water when I use the tap.
A plumber arrived yesterday and said he'd have to get the part. Incidentally, he called the stem the swan.
This was about three p.m. That evening when I went to make a pot of tea, the cold water was barely a trickle. My first thought was that the plumber must have done something, but I'd been with him all the time so unless he'd switched me off in the street it couldn't have been him.
Then the doorbell rang. The next-door neighbour asking me if my water was OK. She was just getting a trickle. We decided it was probably a general problem in our street, but she went off to ask other neighbours.
Last night I had a bath. The bath taps are fed from the cold water tank in the loft (via the water heater for the hot tap) and I had no trouble filling the bath. But when I went to bed I could hear the cold water tank refilling, gurgling away. It must have taken about half an hour.
This morning the cold water was back to normal. And I got a text from the plumbers' saying they'll fix the tap on Monday.
A plumber arrived yesterday and said he'd have to get the part. Incidentally, he called the stem the swan.
This was about three p.m. That evening when I went to make a pot of tea, the cold water was barely a trickle. My first thought was that the plumber must have done something, but I'd been with him all the time so unless he'd switched me off in the street it couldn't have been him.
Then the doorbell rang. The next-door neighbour asking me if my water was OK. She was just getting a trickle. We decided it was probably a general problem in our street, but she went off to ask other neighbours.
Last night I had a bath. The bath taps are fed from the cold water tank in the loft (via the water heater for the hot tap) and I had no trouble filling the bath. But when I went to bed I could hear the cold water tank refilling, gurgling away. It must have taken about half an hour.
This morning the cold water was back to normal. And I got a text from the plumbers' saying they'll fix the tap on Monday.
