How to install a faucet for drinking water in the kitchen

It's no secret that ordinary tap water entering the apartment through the pipes of the centralized water supply, despite preliminary cleaning and disinfection, even with full compliance with sanitary standards, is of little use for eating and cooking homemade food.

In order to solve this problem, autonomous multistage deep cleaning filters are used, which many residents install with their own hands in the kitchen in their own apartment. They allow you to get high-quality drinking water in an amount sufficient to meet the nutritional needs of any family.

Connecting the tap for drinking water

Household multistage filtering elements are most often installed in the free space under the kitchen sink (directly on the wall or the inner surface of the sink cabinet) and connected via an inlet branch pipe with a flexible reinforced hose to the discharge path of cold water supply.

To ensure that clean drinking water coming out of the filter is used only for its intended purpose and does not mix with unpurified water, a special tap for drinking water is installed, which is connected to the outlet of the household filter with a flexible hose.

Separate drinking tap

Structurally, the faucet in the kitchen for drinking water is a fairly high and thin spout, which is installed, as a rule, directly into the kitchen sink, or close to it on the table top. This position allows you to freely recruit purified drinking water in almost any household utensils.

Due to the rather simple design, the cost of this device is not very large, however, in order to install or repair the tap for a drinking water filter, you need to follow a few simple rules:

1. It is recommended to purchase such sanitary products not in the market, but in specialized stores., who sell household water filters.
2. Also, when buying, you need to know that among the similar products, the semi-running faucet for the filter of drinking water from bronze has the greatest durability and the best performance., which outside has a chrome-plated decorative protective coating.
3. When choosing an installation site, it is important to be guided by the fact that it was convenient to take water from it into high drinking water tanks. with faucet, kettle, jars and kitchen pots.

Tip! When self-installing a drinking faucet in the kitchen sink, between its base and the faucet body should be left sufficient distance necessary for periodic removal of accumulated dirt, and cleaning of lime and fat deposits.

Combined Kitchen Faucets

Currently, the leading manufacturers of household sanitary products offer a ready-made solution, which is a combined kitchen faucet, in which, besides the valves that regulate the supply of hot and cold water, there is also an additional valve supplying purified drinking water from the filter.

Depending on the manufacturer, and the specific model of this device, a kitchen faucet with a tap for drinking water can be of two different types.

1. In the spout of a single-hole mixer, a common channel passes through which, when opening a cold or hot valve, ordinary tap water of a selected temperature flows, and after they are closed, and the drinking valve opens, purified cold water flows through the same channel, which passed through a deep cleaning filter .

1. Inside the spout of the mixer with two openings there are two independent channels of different cross sections, so its price may be somewhat more expensive. A single cold and hot water pipe passes through one channel of a larger cross section, and the second channel is connected to the tap of a drinking tap; therefore, after it is opened, cold purified water flows from the filter through a thinner channel.

Note! In mixers with one hole, in the first seconds after the opening of the drinking valve, it is possible to mix purified and untreated water, therefore, before filling food containers, it is recommended to empty the drain from the tap into the sink for 1-2 seconds.

Installation work and connection

The principle of installation and connection of all such devices is about the same, so the typical step-by-step instructions that will help you do this simple work yourself using the usual set of household plumbing tools will be given below.

1. Having decided on the place where the tap for the drinking fountain will be installed, you need to drill a hole of the required diameter in the worktop.
2. The chips and burrs left in the metal or wood with a drill should be carefully removed with a round file with a small notch.
   

3. With the help of the standard hardware, which is included in the delivery package, securely fasten the device from the bottom of the tabletop, ensuring that it has unobstructed turning to the required angle.
4. Shut off the flow of water into the filter element, and using a reinforced flexible hose to connect the outlet of the filter with the inlet of the valve.
5. Turn on the flow of water into the filters, and check the assembled system for any faults and leaks.

Tip! Before you disassemble any plumbing device, you need to carefully remember how it was assembled, as well as note the locations of rubber or silicone sealing gaskets.

Conclusion

In conclusion, it should be recalled that the sealing of all threaded connections on the pressure path of the drinking water supply should be carried out with the use of thin fluoroplastic sealing tape, which meets the sanitary and hygienic standards.

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