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Can this be fixed or is it a dud?


Roz

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Hi everyone, hope lockdown is treating you ok.. Does anyone know if this tap is just shit or if it can be sorted out? It was about £80 so not the cheapest but admittedly not super expensive. It's an Eastbrook tap. 

 

If the video doesnt play then the problem is that when you switch the tap off, it keeps on dribbling for a good while. 

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2 minutes ago, ProDave said:

That looks normal to me. What you are seeing is the time taken for the water in the spout to drain down.  So nothing "wrong" with it.

Hmm, it's just that other taps we have don't dribble for so long. Maybe it won't seem so significant when we have a sink and proper drain underneath it... 

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This is normal for a tap like this that has a fairly horizontal spout.  As @ProDave says, it's just the water in the spout draining out.  This isn't anywhere as noticeable on a tap with a vertical inverted U shaped spout, as they only drain the bit of the spout at the top, the vertical bit stays full of water after the tap is shut off.

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Some taps try and inhibit this behaviour by putting a bit of gauze in the outlet, but that has the effect of making the tap appear to stop quicker, but then to drip drip drip for some time (our basin tap does that)

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13 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Some taps try and inhibit this behaviour by putting a bit of gauze in the outlet, but that has the effect of making the tap appear to stop quicker, but then to drip drip drip for some time (our basin tap does that)

mmm that might be why, we have a similar design tap somewhere else and it has one of these gauzes on it

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