DA16 · Welling
Plumbers & electricians in Welling
Welling was built along a main road, and DA16 still has the shape of that: long, thin and busy through the middle.
4.7 from 186 Google reviewsThe high street runs east to west with housing spreading back from it in both directions. Falconwood sits at the western end near the woods and the station, East Wickham to the north, and Crook Log at the boundary where DA16 meets DA6 and DA7.
Like most of this side of the borough it is dominated by interwar semis and terraces, with a scattering of post-war infill and a fair number of houses converted into flats along the main road itself.
Mixer taps, and why one side wins
A recurring call across DA16 is a mixer tap or a mixer shower that runs either scalding or freezing with nothing usable in between, or that pushes one supply back down the other.
The cause is almost always unbalanced supplies. In a traditional system the cold at the kitchen comes straight off the incoming main at full pressure while the hot comes off a cylinder fed by a tank in the loft at a fraction of that. Put those two into one mixer and the stronger one wins. Adjusting the tap does very little, because the tap is not the problem.
The fixes are real but they are system decisions rather than tap decisions: take the cold for that outlet from the tank so both sides are balanced, fit a mixer designed for unequal pressures, or change the system so everything runs at mains pressure. Which is right depends on the property, and on what else is fed off the tank.
It is worth saying plainly because a lot of money gets spent on replacement taps that were never going to solve it.
None of it is exotic. It is the arithmetic of how the house was originally plumbed, and that arithmetic has not changed since the day it was built.
What DA16 covers
- Welling
- Falconwood
- East Wickham
- Crook Log
Post town Welling. If your postcode begins DA16, you are inside the patch.
DA16: questions we actually get asked
Crook Log again. Is my bit of it DA16?
It might be. Crook Log sits at the meeting point of DA16, DA6 and DA7 and is genuinely split between all three. Since all three are on our list, the practical answer is that we cover you whichever it turns out to be.
Is Falconwood in Welling?
Postally yes, it is DA16 along with East Wickham and Crook Log, though it has its own station and tends to be thought of separately.
My shower is fine downstairs but useless upstairs. Same cause?
Related, but that one is head rather than balance: a first floor outlet sits much closer to the loft tank than a ground floor one, so there is less height driving it. Pumping or converting to mains pressure are the two real answers.
Why does my hot water run out so quickly?
If you have a cylinder it holds a fixed amount, and once that is gone it has to reheat. Where the recovery seems slower than it used to be, the usual culprits are a failing immersion element, a coil furred up with scale, or a thermostat that has quietly drifted.
Next door to DA16
The districts that border this one. If you are near a boundary, both pages apply to you.
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