crappy pressure on new mixer taps!

[mikell]

Hi All,tis me back again picking your well oiled noggins!
Half way through me bathroom now ,just fitted the bath .traps ect,wot a pain in the A***! Anyway all in now turned my water on ,no leaks to speak of but my hot water from the mixewr is crap,yet still ok from the basin. The mixer has a shower thingy with a pressure button but this only works when thew cold water boosts it up,FFFfreezing!!
Is there a reason for this,foriegn tap?? it came in a box with french mumbo jumbo all over so I guess its french,is there a different water pressure abroad ? My old mixer worked the shower fine,thats the odd thing . . help
cmon ,you know you want to!!!

 

[Softus]

Do you have mains cold to these taps, or 'tank' fed?

Do you have stored hot water, or a combi boiler?

 

[Slugbabydotcom]

Why do people wander into the sheds see something that looks pretty and buy it without checking that its suitable for their system

Can we have a 'shaking head with disbelief' emoticon please mr Mod?

I do sympathise about the foreign instructions though. I might do a post with some of the quotes from the translated Chinese instructions on a steam room I've been working on. Laugh a minute they are.

 

[mikell]

it is hot water from the water tank,a primatic (but thats another story!!).
So not really ran off a boiler .
And it was supplied by a seller of suites ,I bought the lot,bog bath sink ,taps,traps ect so You presume ( I know NEVER presume) that everything supplied is ok,unless he states otherwise, Im sur ein french it will have somewhere only to be used where the pressure is 5 bar or whatever, give him his due he said it might be faulty and he will change it,but I reckon it is the pressure prob,as my old mixer was a small handle
in the middle left hot/right cold,no pressure prob with that.

I want an emotion glowing red like this but stcking two fingers up at the world for the frustration I had with the waste pipes and the rest,no fun!!

 

[corgiman]

as has been said you are aplum and have fitted HIGH PRESSURE taps on a loooow pressure system

as where you brought it if they have any low pressure inserts

 

[mikell]

will do. aplum!
the french bits seemed to say 3 bar, which I dont know,is 3 bar low or high? If its low ,where does that leave me!??
I`l get me coat . . .

 

[sime10]

3 bar is quite high pressure , You have a low pressure system

 

[mikell]

thanks for that.