Cold water Chaos, help needed!
Discussion
dave144 said:
Everything you say is correct. The red valve head is situated under the header tank. If there was a fault in the header tank would it prevent flow to the taps etc if they have been plumbed into the low pressure side after the tank.
If the valve is on the pipework that comes out of your cold water storage tank, it'll either isolate the cold taps (low pressure) or the low pressure hot. Can you follow the pipe? Does it go to the cylinder, therefore hot.
Or does it go straight to the bathrooms? Therefore cold.
Find the pipe in the cylinder cuboard that goes into the bottom of the cylinder, hold it while someone else bangs the pipe in the loft with something. Can you feel the vibrations?
finally got round to getting some pictures
the valve under the sink
no water!
This valve feeds the expansion and header tank
the tank which houses the leaking float valve
the other tank which i have not dare open yet
Still cannot get my head around it. Tried the hot water again, the boiler fired up for two minutes and then knocked off. When I went upstairs the hot water had heated the upstairs rads and I could feel a hot pipe to the tank, but no hot water at the taps.
the valve under the sink
no water!
This valve feeds the expansion and header tank
the tank which houses the leaking float valve
the other tank which i have not dare open yet
Still cannot get my head around it. Tried the hot water again, the boiler fired up for two minutes and then knocked off. When I went upstairs the hot water had heated the upstairs rads and I could feel a hot pipe to the tank, but no hot water at the taps.
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