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2 hot water taps running at a trickle

  • 16-06-2016 10:53am
    #1
    allycavs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭


    Hi guys

    I was running all taps for long period other day to check flow in man hole.

    Since then the hot water taps in both bathroom and kitchen is running at a trickle and spluttering. I then tried to run taps over long period again assuming air is in system but this did not fix the issue.

    Any suggestions on tracing the fault?

    Thanks
    Alan


Comments

  • #2
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Are you living in an area with a lot of lime in the water? The hot water taps always seem to bung up before the cold water ones.


  • #3
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Might be an airlock. If you have a mixer tap try switching from hother to cold with your hand over the outlet.


  • #4
    allycavs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭allycavs


    I dont live in a area with lime not have i mixer tap :-(


  • #5
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,189 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    allycavs wrote:
    Any suggestions on tracing the fault?


    Most likely you used the water in the attic tank faster than it was being filled. By doing this I'm guessing that you drained the tank and let air into the system. Its possible that you let dirt from the tank into the system. Hopefully it is just air


  • #6
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    We discovered that we had bats in the attic, when the decomposing body of a drowned one clogged the cold tap in the bathroom.......


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  • #7
    allycavs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭allycavs


    I dont have bats. ive been in attic. i think ive ran taps enough to clear out any air. so if its dirt whats my next step?


  • #8
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,875 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    Post a picture of the taps in kitchen sink

    Have a careful read of this
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99985793

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #9
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    allycavs wrote: »
    I dont live in a area with lime not have i mixer tap :-(

    Can you connect a short piece of garden hose from the cold into the hot and open both? The thinking being that the pressure from the cold can sort out an airlock in the hot.


  • #10
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    We discovered that we had bats in the attic, when the decomposing body of a drowned one clogged the cold tap in the bathroom.......

    Same as that. I nearly puked cleaning it out. There was a gap in the lid of the expansion tank.


  • #11
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,189 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    RebelButtMunch wrote:
    Same as that. I nearly puked cleaning it out. There was a gap in the lid of the expansion tank.


    Lots of people have no lid at all. I don't understand that at all. You might not drink the water from the tank but you do brush your teeth with it.


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