cold water pressure

[bond]

Might anyone know why the cold water pressure in my bathroom tap (a mixer) is non existent - i get a trickle (the hot/pressure is fine when the tap is swivelled to the left) but in the kitchen (a mixer aswell) it is perfectly ok. I live in a flat, so everything is on one level. Doesn't the cold supply come from the same tank for both bathroom and kitchen normally ? Brushing my teeth using hot water is not pleasant ! thanks for your advice.

[bushbaby_de]

Hi bond, I have the same problem but have discovered the bathroon cold water pressure kicks in if I push the tap harder to turn it on. Its a mixer tap where you push the level up to get water and left or right depending on if you want hot or cold. We have a pressure booster thing in the airing cupborad which doesn't seem to kick in if you turn the tap on slowly, only if you whack it on with some force! However the kitchen tap always works fine. Must be something to do with how they're plumbed in!

[4candles]

In some properties the kithen cold supply is direct from the rising main, while other cold taps are fed from a tank. If you run both for a minute or so, does the kitchen one feel colder?

[terence7556]

hello bond
your kitchen is fed direct from the rising main as 4candles says but the other items in the house /flat are probably fed from a stored water cistern usually in the loft. in a flat there is also a cistern, sometimes over the cylinder and it has a float valve like your toilet and thus has similar problems.
however if your loos fill up after flushing then the water is filling up in the cistern and this points to the tap itself