New power shower, now no more hot water in house!

Drugness

Hello all
Need urgent help with this
We just had a new power shower installed yesterday and thats working fine. The only problem is that the other shower in the house (immersion heated) and all the hot taps and washing machine and dishwasher are no longer receiving any water to them.
I just came down from the water tank in the attic and everything looks fine up there from what i can tell, the tank is pretty full and the ballcock has stopped the flow of water into the tank.
When i was here with the plumber yesterday he got me to turn the red handle attached to the water tank 90 degrees to cut the supply of water to the shower (i presume).
i turned this back 90 degrees when he gave me the go ahead.
So the new shower unit is fine but can anyone advise why the rest of the house is no longer getting any hot water????
Thanks!

Micky Dolenz

No hot water at hot taps or no water coming from them at all?

Drugness

Oh sorry, no water at all coming from the hot taps... and the immersion shower just spattering briefly before dying...

Micky Dolenz

Airlock or you have a valve shut off.

I assumme it was a lever valve you turned. If the handle is running with the pipe it is on, if across the pipe it's off.

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Drugness

Thanks Micky
The tap is turned on (ie it is parallel with the pipe)
Would this effect all the major hot water using machines in the house though or just the hot tap in the sink?
I guess i should just leave the tap on so and let it drip away at it's own pace for a few hours at least?

Calibos

Heres what happened to us.

We moved into an inherited house for a few months before moving out to gut it and renovate it. We were not prepared to invest in any comforts we were used to like showers because the place was being gutted within months anyway. As a result we all took baths instead. The water tank in the attic was undersized and one night two baths in a row emptied the tank. No hot water!!

Turns out 30 years of crap, bird feathers and an airlock blocked the water feed to the hot water cylinder when the attic tank drained empty.

We called a plumber and needless to say the fecker never turned up. Insteatd I turned to the internet.

The result was I got a mouthwash bottle and got someone to hold it onto a downstairs mixer tap. Has to be a tap with a mains fed cold tap and it has to be a mixer tap. I turned the tap on and the mains water is routed by the bottle back up the hot side of the mixer tap into the hot water pipework and up to the cylinder. Went up to the attic but found that the water was coming out of the overflow that empties back into the water tank from above. I then blocked that and the water had nowhere to go now from the hotwater cylinder but back up the pipe from the hot water cylinder to the attic water tank. Gurgle gurgle...rush of air....detrius and feathers.....and water!! Got all the crap out of the tank and job was a goodin. Hot water once again and no big plumbers bill!!

I also fixed the bath waste that took an hour to empty and withstood gallons of drain unblocker by taking off the pipe outside and sticking a power washer nozzle up there and giving a few quick blasts.

Theres nothing like the feeling of fixing something yourself and not having to call out the tradesman

Slick50

Contact the plumber again, he may have shut off other valves, probably in the hot press, trying to isolate the shower himself and forgot to turn it/them back on. The origional shower just sputtering, was probably the remaining water draining from the line.

FUNKY LOVER

Calibos wrote: »

Heres what happened to us.

We moved into an inherited house for a few months before moving out to gut it and renovate it. We were not prepared to invest in any comforts we were used to like showers because the place was being gutted within months anyway. As a result we all took baths instead. The water tank in the attic was undersized and one night two baths in a row emptied the tank. No hot water!!

Turns out 30 years of crap, bird feathers and an airlock blocked the water feed to the hot water cylinder when the attic tank drained empty.

We called a plumber and needless to say the fecker never turned up. Insteatd I turned to the internet.

The result was I got a mouthwash bottle and got someone to hold it onto a downstairs mixer tap. Has to be a tap with a mains fed cold tap and it has to be a mixer tap. I turned the tap on and the mains water is routed by the bottle back up the hot side of the mixer tap into the hot water pipework and up to the cylinder. Went up to the attic but found that the water was coming out of the overflow that empties back into the water tank from above. I then blocked that and the water had nowhere to go now from the hotwater cylinder but back up the pipe from the hot water cylinder to the attic water tank. Gurgle gurgle...rush of air....detrius and feathers.....and water!! Got all the crap out of the tank and job was a goodin. Hot water once again and no big plumbers bill!!

I also fixed the bath waste that took an hour to empty and withstood gallons of drain unblocker by taking off the pipe outside and sticking a power washer nozzle up there and giving a few quick blasts.

Theres nothing like the feeling of fixing something yourself and not having to call out the tradesman

lost you halfway:D

big dan

If it's an airlock this may help:

open the tap all of the way and cover the spout with your palm. It might take a while to clear the air lock. If this doesn't work then get the plumber back.

Also check if the hot water tank has water in it. Just give it a knock and you should be able to tell by the sound if there is water in it. If there is no water then don't put the immersion on, it would be like turning the kettle on with no water in it.

emo72

Calibos wrote: »

Heres what happened to us.

We moved into an inherited house for a few months before moving out to gut it and renovate it. We were not prepared to invest in any comforts we were used to like showers because the place was being gutted within months anyway. As a result we all took baths instead. The water tank in the attic was undersized and one night two baths in a row emptied the tank. No hot water!!

Turns out 30 years of crap, bird feathers and an airlock blocked the water feed to the hot water cylinder when the attic tank drained empty.

We called a plumber and needless to say the fecker never turned up. Insteatd I turned to the internet.

The result was I got a mouthwash bottle and got someone to hold it onto a downstairs mixer tap. Has to be a tap with a mains fed cold tap and it has to be a mixer tap. I turned the tap on and the mains water is routed by the bottle back up the hot side of the mixer tap into the hot water pipework and up to the cylinder. Went up to the attic but found that the water was coming out of the overflow that empties back into the water tank from above. I then blocked that and the water had nowhere to go now from the hotwater cylinder but back up the pipe from the hot water cylinder to the attic water tank. Gurgle gurgle...rush of air....detrius and feathers.....and water!! Got all the crap out of the tank and job was a goodin. Hot water once again and no big plumbers bill!!

I also fixed the bath waste that took an hour to empty and withstood gallons of drain unblocker by taking off the pipe outside and sticking a power washer nozzle up there and giving a few quick blasts.

Theres nothing like the feeling of fixing something yourself and not having to call out the tradesman

kudos to calibos. this worked a treat;)