cold water

I have a Boilermate A Class OV store and recently drained down to swap a radiator, after refilling the hot water goes cold after 30 seconds but if the tap flow is reduced the temperature rises. Central heating is fine What I’ve tried: I have swapped the boilermate DHW pump and heat exchanger...

our boiler pressure is dropping to 0 even after having the blender valve replaced, paid £80. Maybe 2weeks ago. This was when our pressure was at 0 and only cold water was coming out. Now my water is going hot and cold every 15/20 seconds from the bath tap. Any ideas only moved in a month ago

Afternoon all, I’ve recently completed on a house, and currently have no cold water coming out of the mixer tap downstairs. The stopcock was shut so I've opened it and the boiler and hot water are functioning properly, and we have cold water upstairs in the bathroom. I've checked the...

Hello, My dishwasher Neff S51E50X3GB is still running but the water stays cold. This started after the fuse on the dishwasher plug blew up. I've accessed the heating pump and unplugged the connector with the 2 thick red wires and 1 earth wire. There are black marks as you can see on the...

Hi guys Great forum. I have an unvented cylinder which is a Telford Tempest 250 litres with external expansion vessel, which we have the hot water on from 6am - 10pm (gas boiler). But within 2 hours of the hot water going off, the water from the cylinder is stone cold. If I turn off the hot...

Hi, please see attached photos (blue: cold mains to boiler and kitchen after bathroom. Red: hot from boiler to bathroom. Yellow: gas to boiler. The other pipes are the radiator pipes that do run across under the pipes at the radiator ends - again too close to them) is this okay? I’m concerned...

Hi everyone, I have recently entered a new property. The property is served hot water by a gas combi boiler at a fixed temperature of 55oC. The bathroom of the property has a shower mixer with a tap, similar to the one shown on the attached image. From the beginning, this setup has been...

Hi, I have moved into a new build and have a strange problem that the builders have tried to fix for weeks, hope someone can offer a solution! The system is a Vokera Mynute boiler with pressurised hot water tank and 2 heating zones. The hot water tank also has a solar thermal coil installed...

Hi all, my first post. I am installing an undersink water heater in the garage loft. The instructions say the pressure release valve must be on the cold feed and the diagram show it right next the heater, my question is can i install it below the floor. i.e. in the garage below (as drawn) It...

Really hope someone can help me in any capacity please.i have an iqe combi boiler.central heating is working fine but the problem is i cant get the hot water to come on.the temperatures on the boiler itself are correct aswell as the pressure. Also the hot water symbol on the boiler display...

hello Looking for some advice; I have a vaillant eco tec plus 824 combi boiler. Last year the hot water started running cold after a few minutes. Heaton engineer cleaned the whole system, replaced the heat exchange and the pump. The pump seemed to do the trick. It's coming up to a year since it...

This has been going on intermittently for some time, but now is almost every time a cold water tap in the house is turned on. Water bursts out of the tap in stop start gushes, accompanied by quite loud gugg, gugg, noises that are not the banging pipes noises described by some members. It takes...

I'm renovating an old victorian 3 floor terraced house with the usual hellish mish-mash of pipework running in bizarre and ugly locations. I want to replace all that with new pipework while I have the floorboards up. My question is, what pipe sizes should I use for the different bits? The...

Hey all, I bought my house 2 years ago, gutted it, renovated, and have only just had the time to look into the problems: I had a brand new Worcester greenstar 29cdi classic and a new Mira Agile ERD shower fitted, the plumber who installed both is qualified and has many years of experience, has...

Wondering if anyone here can give me some advice. Recently bought a Victorian terraced flat (ground floor) and discovered a slow leak into one the walls from the old lead cold water pipe that supplies the upstairs flat. Plumber has sealed it off, created a junction and run an alternative...

Hi All, I am totally renovating my home i've just bought. We've ripped out al the plumbing plus had a new 25mm MPDE water main installed with good pressure. We're doing a loft conversion so there will be a total of 3 floors with 2 bathrooms (1 on each upper level). I am trying to design the...