New kitchen - quartz worktop water everywhere!

[minnymoobear]

Have spent the last year on house extension and finally have a beautiful family kitchen with island.

BUT the Sink is in the island and every time we use the tap for anything, the water splashes around the taps enough that we have to keep wiping it up.

I know it sounds like a little thing but it's really annoying me and I'm on at DH and DC all the time about wiping up the water - I'm turning into a right bag!

I can't really see what we can do about it, so just wondered what other people do?

Is it a case of living with it and just get used to wiping up or is there a secret gadget thing that I'm not aware of yet that mops up this excess around the sink water? 🤣

Feel like I'm single handeadly keeping the microfibre cloth industry going at the moment!

sounds like an iffy tap.....is it properly over the sink, or too close to the edge?

It is quite close to the edge - have a hot water tap so the installer got it as close as he could.
I would like it to have been more into the actual sink

You can get something to fit inside the tap to reduce the water pressure. If there was less pressure I think they'd be less squirting over the edge. I also think as the kitchen wears in you will care about this less.

Oh that does sound annoying! No advice, sorry.

Does the tap have a perlator or champagne aerator? It's a part that just screws onto the end of the spout and softens the flow of the water making it less likely to splash. If it doesn't have one and you can't get one you can try turning the isolators to the tap down a bit to limit how much water flows through.

Is the problem more with the hot water than the cold? If it is YOU CAN FIX THAT!! Just had the same issue myself with our new tap and emailed the retailer who explained an easy fix. Underneath the sink on the hot side there's a valve where you can adjust the hot water flow pressure. That doesn't sound like a lot of information to go on but that was all the instructions it took for dp to fix ours over the weekend - Google might give you pictures. Good luck!

PS there might be valves for both hot and cold, I don't know, it's just our issue was only with the hot water pressure.

Epoxy those are the isolators I mentioned. There should be one each for hot and cold water.

I did wonder that when I read your post wowfudge - that'll teach me to only read after having already replied

Isolators are for turning it off completely, they're not designed for turning things down, you'd need a stop tap for that.
The isolator would work for a while but you wouldn't want to exacerbate their already high failure rate by restricting the flow through them

are people just being careless and holding stuff up too high so water splooshes everywhere instead of holding cups or hands down in the sink to keep the water contained?