I had water during the big freeze....

suitseir

I must have been the only house in the neighbourhood that had water during the big freeze. Even my neighbour's house suffered on Christmas Day.

A lot of houses in this country town are only slowly getting their supply back.

Now today, I was away for a couple of hours and the power at the kitchen sink is down. I am presuming that the water supply is back in places, and there are burst pipes which is resulting in low water pressure at my kitchen sink?

Presuming this will rectify itself?

Sparkpea

if everyone else had no water then their tanks in the loft are prob dry and are all trying to refill at the same time, thus low pressure.

or

burst pipes in the road and the water pressure has been limited while they are fixed


give it time

suitseir

Sparkpea wrote: »

if everyone else had no water then their tanks in the loft are prob dry and are all trying to refill at the same time, thus low pressure.

or

burst pipes in the road and the water pressure has been limited while they are fixed


give it time

AND goes without saying that I would want to conserve what I have in the tank in the attic as overuse would mean a SLOW fill......postpone the shower for a day or two....

Buford T Justice

suitseir wrote: »

AND goes without saying that I would want to conserve what I have in the tank in the attic as overuse would mean a SLOW fill......postpone the shower for a day or two....

Or worse, you get some airlocks from emptying the tank and they can be a pain sometimes.

mullingar

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Or worse, you get some airlocks from emptying the tank and they can be a pain sometimes.

This is my best way of clearing air-locks.

Hot Airlock:
Close all taps in the house. At the kitchen sink, open the hot water (should be no water as its air-locked) hold nozzle closed with your hand (assuming mixer type), open the mains cold feed this forces the mains cold water up the hot pipe.

Cold Air-lock:
Close all taps. Close the 3/4" Hot water feed valve in the hot press (NOT the cold - you can tell the hot feed pipe by listening for water flowing when a hot tap is running OR tracing it to the bottom inlet of your hot-water tank).

Find a volunteer to go to another mixer tap in the house (bath/upstairs sink), get them to hold the nozzle closed, open their hot & cold taps.

You go to kitchen sink and hold the nozzle closed with your hand (assuming mixer type), open the hot AND the mains cold, this forces the mains cold water up the hot pipe, then it's forced into the cold pipe via the other mixer tap held by your volunteer.

Reopen the hot water feed valve