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How can i check if hot water is connected to an upstairs tap
Devi
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Hi,
I have recently moved into a property and have a small bathroom with a loo and sink off my bedroom.
The problem is I cannot get hot water from the sink despite letting it run.
The hot water runs fine in the kitchen and other bathroom and I wondered whether there was a way of checking if the hot water has been connected.
SD
I have recently moved into a property and have a small bathroom with a loo and sink off my bedroom.
The problem is I cannot get hot water from the sink despite letting it run.
The hot water runs fine in the kitchen and other bathroom and I wondered whether there was a way of checking if the hot water has been connected.
SD
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CCs £10,700 to pay by end 2014
Save for home improvements (£10,000) by end of 2014
Big 4-0 birthday treat mission for 2015
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Are there both hot and cold taps fitted to the sink?
If so, look under it, are there both hot and cold feeds connected?
What is the hot water source for the property?No free lunch, and no free laptop
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Trace the pipework.
CheersThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein0 -
Hi,
I have recently moved into a property and have a small bathroom with a loo and sink off my bedroom.
The problem is I cannot get hot water from the sink despite letting it run.
The hot water runs fine in the kitchen and other bathroom and I wondered whether there was a way of checking if the hot water has been connected.
SD
Yes there is............Ask to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)0 -
Thank you for your replies.
There is both a hot and cold tap on this sink and the hot water tap does run, but just not with hot water!
I will have a look to check where the pipes go and see if there is something I need to turn/switch on (complete plumbing novice here!).
I have a combi boiler and the water is hot after a few seconds of running in the kitchen and other bathroom.S.A.D and proud
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Surely the fact that you've established that you have hot water in the house, but this particular tap doesn't run hot is enough to tell tell that it's not plumbed into the hot water system?
I can't think of a way that a tap could be plumbed into the hot water system but not run hot...Solar install June 2022, Bath
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unless it's an exceptionally long run.
Could open the tap and check if the boiler roars into action . . . 0 -
I would turn off my mains and see if the tap still runs first. If it does then tank fed and look for old immersion heater.
Tracing the pipework back was also sound advice, also where is the bathroom, is it near bedroom(same floor) how are hot feeds there.0 -
It's a basin, not a sink. A sink goes in the kitchen. It would be bizzare to run two cold feeds to a basin in the absence of a hot feed. I suspect that it's on the very end of the hot feed and you need to run it for 2 or 3 minutes to get it hot.
Why don't you follow the 'non-hot' feed back as suggested before?No free lunch, and no free laptop0 -
Errm - he has a combi boiler!tigeress289 wrote: »If it does then tank fed and look for old immersion heater.
CheersThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein0 -
I would turn off my mains and see if the tap still runs first. If it does then tank fed and look for old immersion heater.
Tracing the pipework back was also sound advice, also where is the bathroom, is it near bedroom(same floor) how are hot feeds there.
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