No hot water to bath

Riley

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• Feb 19, 2019

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No flow at all or no hot water??

 

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Brett Balac

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• Feb 19, 2019

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sorry should of said..
got flow it just cold

 

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Riley

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• Feb 19, 2019

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Only the bath tap? What sort of boiler? Combi? Any chance of a pic of the tap?

 

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Bath mixer tap with cartridge problem.

 

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Brett Balac

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here are some pics of boiler and taps.

 

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Err, 15 & 22mm pipe there on the taps plus PTFE in the wrong places, is there more to this story Brett? Somebody had a play with it?

 

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Brett Balac

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• Feb 19, 2019

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no one has touched the pipes since we have been in the house about 6 years, we got some hot early in the 6years but the last 2 years its gone completely cold.
is this a botch job then?

 

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Brett Balac said:

no one has touched the pipes since we have been in the house about 6 years, we got some hot early in the 6years but the last 2 years its gone completely cold.
is this a botch job then?

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Wouldn`t say botched just unusal to see different size pipes and yes maybe the joint with the PTFE could be called a botch job. Take it both pipes up to the taps are cold?

 

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• Feb 19, 2019

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Only open the hot tap 1/4 of the way and see if you get hot water through

 

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Brett Balac

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• Feb 19, 2019

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yes and no - the hot pipe is warm and water cold. when i turn the sink cold and shower cold water on it gets slightly warmer but noway near hot.

 

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do you get any hot water if you slow the flow from hot tap

 

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Craig Watson said:

Only open the hot tap 1/4 of the way and see if you get hot water through

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E4gas said:

do you get any hot water if you slow the flow from hot tap

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As above and wait awhile, let the water flow out.

 

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Brett Balac

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• Feb 19, 2019

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never thought of that and yes we do get hot water but it seems very temperamental, not had this hot in a very long time

open the tap full and its very cold

 

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Brett Balac said:

never thought of that and yes we do get hot water but it seems very temperamental, not had this hot in a very long time

open the tap full and its very cold

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I would recommend you call a gas safe engineer to check the boiler over, there are a couple reason for poor hot water performance which should be easy to diagnose.

Also be advised that your boiler will only deliver 10 litres maximum of hot water a min, if you have a good flow rate and open your tap full, the boiler won't keep up with demand.

 

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Brett Balac

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• Feb 19, 2019

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Thank you everyone for the advice it looks like we have hot water now only when we open the tap alittle not all the way. Simple i know but we both dont have a clue about this stuff.

thanks again and we will get the boiler checked thanks

 

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Brett Balac said:

Thank you everyone for the advice it looks like we have hot water now only when we open the tap alittle not all the way. Simple i know but we both dont have a clue about this stuff.

thanks again and we will get the boiler checked thanks

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Chances are we don`t have a clue how to do what you two do for a living mate.

 

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