No hot water upstairs but downstairs fine

dellboy102

Hi Guys

we have a boiler (Vaillant Ecotec Plus 837 NG Condensing), the hot water works fine downstairs but no water comes out the tap if you turn the hot water on upstairs, cold works fine.

Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what it could be? plumber is struggling to find a hot water pipe going upstairs at the moment!

Thanks

macman

So was there hot water before, or have you just moved in?
if your plumber cannot find a hot feed to the upstairs, then that rather identifies the problem...
Sounds like an airlock to me otherwise.
If it's a boiler problem then you need a GSR RGI, not a plumber.

dellboy102

We've always had hot water so there must be a hot feed somewhere, I'll check the boiler pressure just incase its that (its actually my parents place but trying to help them out), I'll suggest an airlock to the plumber too to see if that helps.

Thanks for the reply

southcoastrgi

why is the name of your boiler in your first post a clicky & take you to a web site full of boiler offers ?? not trying to spam us are you !!

dellboy102

oh sorry I pasted it from my email, its from when I purchased the boiler, had no idea it was a link, i'll remove the link, been a member since 2005 do you really think I'm going to start spamming now.

southcoastrgi

it's ok we all do it sometimes, the boiler is a combi right ?

dellboy102

Yep its a Combi

southcoastrgi

then it's not an air lock

Jonesya

How many hot taps do you have upstairs - are they all affected?

dellboy102

yep all affected (sink and bath), plumber still cannot find the hot water pipes so he said for £140 he'll run new ones upstairs, might just have to go with that option

cyclonebri1

dellboy102 wrote: »

yep all affected (sink and bath), plumber still cannot find the hot water pipes so he said for £140 he'll run new ones upstairs, might just have to go with that option

But they were working before???, :D:D:D

No no no

You need a new plumber, not new pipes