How can i check if hot water is connected to an upstairs tap

retiredin2011

I know someone who had new heating with a new combi boiler installed to replace economy 7 NSH and the hot water tank was left to feed the bathroom sink because the immersion was on economy 7.

Of course they then had the economy 7 meter removed and no one realised that the immersion would no longer be wired into the electricity supply.

They had used the immersion heater just to heat water for the bathroom for over a year as they were told it would be cheaper using economy 7 night time rates for electricity than removing the hot water tank and replacing the pipes for hot water.

southcoastrgi

retiredin2011 wrote: »

I know someone who had new heating with a new combi boiler installed to replace economy 7 NSH and the hot water tank was left to feed the bathroom sink because the immersion was on economy 7.

Of course they then had the economy 7 meter removed and no one realised that the immersion would no longer be wired into the electricity supply.

They had used the immersion heater just to heat water for the bathroom for over a year as they were told it would be cheaper using economy 7 night time rates for electricity than removing the hot water tank and replacing the pipes for hot water.

& this goes to prove that a little knowledge is dangerious & not to take a blind bit of notice of someone that hasn't got a sooby doo what they are talking about

paddedjohn

macman wrote: »

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?

Its a sink in my house and we have dinner and tea not lunch and dinner aswell.;)

tigeress289

Derrrr, We know its a combi but the OP is not a plumber. Derrrr, we know it should be hot and they should let it run as it needs to rise from downstairs. Derrrrr, funny that its not getting hot, dont worry it will feel warmer in the summer. To find a fault when you know nothing ,you have to eliminate the easiest way you can. If there is a bathroom near you can trace pipework from there. Not every home is plumbed in as it should be.
Why criticize other posts when your not being helpful, pathetic really.

keystone

tigeress289 wrote: »

Derrrr, We know its a combi but the OP is not a plumber

Derrr so why are you throwing in a large potential red herring (note I use the word potential) of tank fed when you know although you clearly don't expect the OP to know that tanks kinda disappear when a combi is installed? The alternative is that you didn't actually read the bit where he said he had a combi in which case your answer would have been understandable.

To find a fault when you know nothing ,you have to eliminate the easiest way you can. If there is a bathroom near you can trace pipework from there. Not every home is plumbed in as it should be.

Derrr - thats why Post Number 3 is the only answer from sitting remotely at the end of a PC.

Why criticize other posts when your not being helpful,

Derr. If you want to be helpful do so. Your post was unhelpful because it presumed an unlikely scenario. Not impossible but unlikely and thus confusing to the OP who, in your words, is not a plumber. If you can't be helpful then don't bother and you really shouldn't be surprised if your unhelpful post catches the odd swipe.

pathetic really.

What? Poorly constructed attempts at a cover up? Absolutely. :cool:

Cheers

Devi

thanks for all the responses - I have let it run for ages in the past but no success.

I will investigate this weekend.

southcoastrgi

Derr is that a local expression or a typo for dear/deer ?

Canucklehead

Hi.

......... Turn off the cold inlet to the combi. You will find this under the boiler as part of the connection set. If you have no idea where to look find the installation manual online somewhere.

Open the hot tap on the sink, the one in the kitchen not the bathroom/cloakroom/ensuite.

If this sink (kitchen) is on the ground floor then go round and open the hot taps on all the other fittings ie: basins or maybe sinks. They will suck air.

Go to the problem basin (unless you have a kitchenette ensuite, in which case it will be a sink)

Open the hot.

Does it suck air or does water flow?

You might have an electric undersink heater. That would be for a basin or a sink the manufacturers don't differentiate between the two but they can be used on both.

I have to do some cleaning now, but the Hoover needs mending ,where is that Phillips head screwdriver...........

GSR