Water splashing everywhere but not fixed by reducing pressure

[thefirstmrsdewinter]

Running water both downstairs and upstairs seems to hit the surface it's aimed at (eg sink, shower) and go everywhere. Just washing my hands means walls, windows, floor within maybe a two-foot radius are sprinkled with water. God, I'm so tired of wiping surfaces.

We've reduced the water pressure as much as we can while still getting running water to the first floor.

In my mind it's as though the stream of water needs a baffle to keep water falling out of the tap like it was a hosepipe, but is that even a thing or have I made it up? Have had no luck googling and plumber just advised us to reduce pressure.

Look at tap aerators on Amazon - or anywhere else.
We had this trouble in our kitchen and fitted one of these and it made a world of difference.
You can get ones that screw into the end of the tap to replace the one that's there and some can be twizzled about to direct the water flow.
Not necessarily the most attractive of things but then, neither are big puddles around the sink.

Have you tried taking the end of the tap off and descaling it?

It sounds like whoever fitted the sinks didn't pick the right shape for the placement of the tap to me.

But the aereater would be a cheaper fix!

Doh - now I've seen those aereators I think that is what we've had which needed descaling! Sounds exactly what your baffle idea would do OP - I had to google that too

Oh wow, thanks MN peeps. I almost said in my post that the water needed aerating but I thought maybe I'd made it up. But other taps have that slightly bubbly look to the water and don't skite everywhere so I felt there must be a difference.

All taps are new (recent renovation) and this has happened from day one so descaling won't help (though we do have hard water which is why it's such a PITA on every surface).

First plumber was an utter knob so no surprise if he's done something wrong, but second plumber fixed a lot of that so I'm surprised he didn't suggest an aerator and just said to adjust the pressure.

Off to find tap aerators! Thanks again.

They are also sometimes called champagne aerators or perlators.