Hot water woes!

[russwatkins]

Hi!

Excellent advice in the forum, but nothing that seems to relate to my particular problem!.

I have no hot water, but the central heating is fine.

It started after we had a leak yesterday, which was down to a faulty ballcock valve in the smaller tank in the loft (I have two tanks, one smaller than the other, above the hot water cylinder). A plumber came in and fixed it, but then the heating and hot water would not work.

I managed to sort out the problem with the central heating, which was down to trapped air in the pump, but the hot water will still not get hot.

I have tried joining the hot water and cold water together at the bath tap to try expel air, but still no joy.

Any advice before I call the plumber again? He is a decent chap, but always seems to cock it up!

Cheers

Russ

 

[ollski]

Make sure the stopcock from the bigger tank upstairs to the bottom of the copper hot water cylinder hasn't been turned off....or do you mean you have water but it dont heat up?. If the latter is the case we need more system details and what work had been carried out prior to noticing the ballcock in the loft was faulty. In a nicely running system f&e tank ballcocks don't move so generally will only develop fault after some sort of incident

 

[ChrisR]

If he drained water out it's possible you now have air in the "boiler" pipes which heat the HW cylinder. Find 'em and look for some sort of bleed point - operated by spanner, or rad key, or screwdriver, or just fingers. Usually at the top of an upward pointing stalk of pipe, at the side of the cylinder.