Painful water in my new flat

Maybe the water's hard in your area...

Very nice!

edit: hard as nails

Harder than your nails.

An electric shock is quite different to stinging when pouring onto wounds.. description of problem fail. :P

...you're probably right but I have had a similar thing happen where water has found it's way on to the electrics and you get a very mild stinging sensation!

I have the same issue when I attached the power supply's alligator clips to my nipples.

you need to turn up the volume!

You don't dsay if it is the hot or cold tap, the cold should be a direct mains feed not via a storage tank, the hot will be via some kind of boiler, could be a combi (heats the water when you need it) or a traditional type storage tank.

I think that Town is right, but if it is electric I would expect it to be via both the hot and cold kitchen taps. If electric you really need an electrician to check the system.

maybe try unplugging the washing machine and try the taps again, I'm wondering if your washing machine is earthing out on the water pipes!

You don't dsay if it is the hot or cold tap, the cold should be a direct mains feed not via a storage tank, the hot will be via some kind of boiler, could be a combi (heats the water when you need it) or a traditional type storage tank.

I think that Town is right, but if it is electric I would expect it to be via both the hot and cold kitchen taps. If electric you really need an electrician to check the system.

It's both taps. I'm going to contact the estate agent and have her send someone by to check it out.

I agree with town, sounds like it isn't earthed, especially considering the cooker is giving you shocks. Get a plumber, don't touch tap or the cooker...

Take your shoes off

Never rule out AIDS.

Ask the Estate Agent for a copy of the Electrical Safety Certificate while you're demanding a plumber, that'll make them take it a little but more seriously. You can't get a cert if the pipes aren't bonded, though they don't need to be replaced for five years so it's possible there may have been some changes to the electrics since the last one. Anyway, my point is that it will sound like you know what you're on about and hopefully they'll move on it.

Make sense?

spooky. maybe the flat is haunted and there are demons living in the pipes

Never rule out AIDS.

Yep, it's definitely aids.

Ah, LFGSS, the home of useless twats! Haha!

stinging water ???
wtf ?
surely polkatronix this is a neurosis you have about kitchen taps.

I would get your landlord/estate agent to have the earth bonding checked, all incoming mains services should be bonded back to your consumer unit. It could possibly be excessive incoming mains water pressure as it sounds like its only on the cold at the kitchen sink but it would need to be very high to cause this. I have come accross outlets in the past that can have supplies above 15 bar but its very unusual.

Excessive incoming mains water pressure usually occurs more at night than during the day when there is less demand on mains supply. This can be checked by getting a plumber to fit a tell tale pressure gauge, this will show the highest point that the mains pressure has reached during its fitting period. If it is high pressure then a PRV or pressure reducing valve would need to be fitted, this would limit the supply to around 3 Bar.

my new place has steam heat, and I have no access to a boiler its on all the time, I have both windows open its -7 out and windy, and I am still far to hot, its keeping me awake and its 4am in NYC. also they sound like they are releasing pressure, and some times they spit small drops of water this worries me. I have never lived any where with steam heat before, can I do anything about the temp? and can I do anything bout the whistling pressure thing? I tried talking to the buildings supper but apparently its just how the heat works.

maybe you are using the hot tap in the kitchen and the cold everywhere else.

my new place has steam heat, and I have no access to a boiler its on all the time, I have both windows open its -7 out and windy, and I am still far to hot, its keeping me awake and its 4am in NYC. also they sound like they are releasing pressure, and some times they spit small drops of water this worries me. I have never lived any where with steam heat before, can I do anything about the temp? and can I do anything bout the whistling pressure thing? I tried talking to the buildings supper but apparently its just how the heat works.

Chris there should be a nob at the base of the radiator and a tap as well. The hissing and the dripping would suggest that you need to adjust this tap, (use a rag as the tap will get hot and have a bown or towel handy as it gets messy)
You can adjust the temperature on them with a second nozzle usually on the opposite side, but always a pain to reach.

some models wont have a tap per-say but poke about and you'll see it.

Chris there should be a nob at the base of the radiator and a tap as well. The hissing and the dripping would suggest that you need to adjust this tap, (use a rag as the tap will get hot and have a bown or towel handy as it gets messy)
You can adjust the temperature on them with a second nozzle usually on the opposite side, but always a pain to reach.

There is a pipe that comes out from the wall, into the radiator with a twisty thing on it, but I can't get that to budge, and the hissing comes out of a steel bell looking thing with a little hole in it, nothing to twist on that. I would take a photo but all the cameras are in the studio, as I have a shoot in 2 hours now.

this heat madness must end, I need sleep in my life.

p.s. I hope your well, and I will do better at keeping in touch.

It feels almost like pouring alcohol on a cut.

It is alcohol. You've been accidentally connected to the Wray and Nephew on-tap, at the local pub. Its a trial, but it seems like you're getting it for free.

Over-proof always stings.

Is this why the Scottish call a brook a burn?

You still celebrating 250 years Platini?