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Problem with hot water help!

  • 30-05-2010 1:01pm
    #1
    SteeveeDee
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭


    Hey,

    Just moved into a new place and after all the heavy lifting and runnin' around am in dire need of a shower but there is no hot water..:eek:

    Its immersion heating. When I turn on the hot tap anywhere in the flat there is a short spurt of water and then nothing at all.

    Anyone got any advice on this? Could it be something simple like the fuse or something?

    Also anyone have any good suggestions for quieting a very loud high pitched water pump?


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  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,259 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    If you are turning on the hot tap anywhere in the house and aren't getting any water then its one of two things

    1) You have the hot supply turned off. Find the tap and turn it on

    2) There is an airlock in the hot supply. The Solution for this is to run the mains cold water up the hot supply pipe. This will blow the airlocks out.

    If you have a separate hot and cold tap in the kitchen, then take a bit of hose from one tap to the other and that should do the trick. If you have a mixerset tap, it could take a bit of fiddling, but its do-able


  • #3
    dunsandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭dunsandin


    As above. I have also had occasion to apply mouth to mouth to a tap in order to suck the water through to get the air out. Sounds daft, but it works! take 1 gob, wrap your kissers around the tap outlet and suck. Use yout tongue to seal the outlet while you draw breath. After a bit of vigorouse sucking, the water should flow. Mad, but it works even better than the hose method. By the way, the tap has to be turned on and all other taps need to be turned off! We now have a posh €1000 yoke for doing this, but the lips did the same job, minus the cost, plus the looking a bit stupid and usually getting a mouthful of mangy water.


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