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Yet another airlock question

  • 09-11-2013 9:53pm
    #1
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭


    Hey. So the water crisis of 2013 last week has left me with a cold water tap that works fine and a tank/hot water tap that will not work.
    Ive checked the tank and its full. I have done the old hose trick with the cold tap into the hot tap. I have tried blocking the single faucet tap with both cold and hot open for 5 minutes.
    Anymore ideas?


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  • #2
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    its probably worth noting that the electric shower is working fine leaving to me to believe that its something in the immersion?


  • #3
    Billy Bunting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Billy Bunting


    bombidol wrote: »
    Ive checked the tank and its full. I have done the old hose trick with the cold tap into the hot tap. I have tried blocking the single faucet tap with both cold and hot open for 5 minutes.
    Anymore ideas?

    Are you running the cold up the hot at the kitchen sink ? its there that you will have mains cold water, doing it at the bathroom will possibly get you knowwhere has they are both off the tank and as such at the same pressure, if you can clear the hot at the kitchen sink then you have a chance of then sending the cleared hot up the cold bathroom tap.


  • #4
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    yeah, its a single faucet in the kitchen. so i blocked the tap and set the knob/turner in the middle and ran it for 5 minutes. when I run the hot tap then it will expel that cold water then a couple of seconds of hot water ( if the heating has been on) then it will slowly slow down to no flow.


  • #5
    Billy Bunting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Billy Bunting


    Try the same again but leave another hot tap open and see if you get the cold coming through, if so turn off in mid flow and do same again on another tap, once all done try it again with all taps closed.


  • #6
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    Tried that, it seems to come out of the hot taps fairly strong then die down, then strong again.Then hot water from the main kitchen tap will run for a few minutes then die.


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  • #7
    Billy Bunting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Billy Bunting


    A few pictures of your hot water tank may help now but you could be looking at having to get someone in, it sounds like its probably going up the vent pipe while the air lock is in the cold feed, closing off the vent would force it up the cold feed but sorry i don't know how competent you are to do that.


  • #8
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    Lather, rinse and repeated a few times and got it sorted, thanks a million.


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