PLEASE HELP!!! No hot water for 3 months

[neal251]

We had someone in to fit a new bathroom suite and they cut a copper pipe coming down from the loft because they said it was not needed and ever since then our hot water comes out of the tap so slowly that it takes over an hour to run a bath. There are 3 tanks in the loft so can some one tell me whats gone wrong and how to fix it cheaply as i dont have a lot of money.

 

[ecowarm]

Get them back to sort the problem, it was ok before so get them to sort it out

Oh and welcome to the forum Neal

 

[moony]

I bet a months wage it's a gatevalve broke off on the cold feed to cylinder - leaving it partly open.

 

[neal251]

where do i look for the gatevalve how do i fix it

 

[neal251]

tried to get the man to come back but he does not want to know now.

 

[SimonJohns]

Is the hot water issue just affecting the bath room?
Is this the new bath room?

 

[Best]

I bet a months wage it's a gatevalve broke off on the cold feed to cylinder - leaving it partly open.

I am with that, - if the flow is as bad as said, then has to be something blocking flow. Gatevalves jam partly open often.
Try to get installer back, as they should have left it working well.

 

[neal251]

it was our existing bathroom that we had replaced but it is affecting all the hot water in the house

 

[neal251]

if i can shut the gatevalve will that cure the problem.

 

[ecowarm]

Shut the gate valve and you will have no hot water

 

[Best]

if i can shut the gatevalve will that cure the problem.

May need to get a new valve, but first check the valve is full open. If it is a gatevalve - usually has a red head, then it should turn about 4 full turns to open from closed. Usually valve will be close to the cold tank in attic.

 

[kay-jay]

May need to get a new valve, but first check the valve is full open. If it is a gatevalve - usually has a red head, then it should turn about 4 full turns to open from closed. Usually valve will be close to the cold tank in attic.

or in the airing cupboard with cylinder

 

[goz666]

May need to get a new valve, but first check the valve is full open. If it is a gatevalve - usually has a red head, then it should turn about 4 full turns to open from closed. Usually valve will be close to the cold tank in attic.

Deja Vu this, just wrote this on another post. Don't assume that the gate valve is open because it turns, if you have a problem, break the joint below the gate valve and check it properly. Be prepared for water and bung the mains tank first, but personally for the cost I would buy a new one and put it in anyway.
Sounds like your plumber may have been a builder, who knows a bit !!

 

[Dorset Plumber]

He may of put the bathroom on mains water, hence not needing that copper pipe.
Does the flow of the hot water start off fast then to a trickle?
Check the tanks are filling in the loft.

Could be the little black disk of death in the hot water cylinder:38:.
Has anyone else come across this?

 

[moony]

There will be a pipe 22mm probably going into bottom of cylinder from roof space - somewhere on this pipe there will be a gatevalve (red wheel still on it hopefully) when he has shut this off, the spindle could of snapped inside - so if the wheel turns endlessly then it will be that. I have also had them stick (slightly twisted) I usually just fit a new one.

I can tell by turning gatevalve if it's dodgy if it is I'll just drain down and ask customer if they want a new one fitted - been caught out far too many times in my early days by a dodgy gatevalve!

 

[mutley racers]

So Dorset Plumber, what is this little black disc you are talking about? Can scale in the cylinder block the flow of water to hot taps?