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Attic tank

  • 22-06-2024 9:51am
    #1
    niamhnif
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    hi, we had a full 3 tanks of water in the attic last night at 10:30pm. No water in tanks this morning and nobody using water during the night. No toilets flushed etc. where is the water going?



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  • #2
    TheSunIsShining
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭TheSunIsShining


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356876/attic-tank

    That's a huge volume of water?? Would have to be visible unless it actually went down a drain - is one of your toilets running or was a tap on? Why didn't the tanks fill back up by the way? If the ballcock was going down with the water fthen the tanks should have had water flowing in?

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  • #3
    Field east
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭Field east


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356876/attic-tank

    why were u checking them one night and when you found them full of water you still decided to check the. Again the following day . Why was this . You must have some suspicion about something.
    apart from the above - maybe the ballcock is stuck in the up position. Or was there a tap left on someplace including outside taps. Or maybe ‘a prankster turned off the valve out in the road



  • #4
    the_amazing_raisin
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    Most likely a tap leaking or toilet running

    If it was a leaking pipe or appliance then your house would be a swimming pool with that much water

    Make sure every tap is truly off when turned off, no water still running. Also check any outdoor taps, although they're usually mains fed

    Flush every toilet and make sure it stops filling after a couple of minutes. There might be water running into the bowl, which would be a problem with the flush mechanism

    Alternatively the ballcock might be stuck so the toilet fills forever. You might hear water draining through an overflow pipe or draining into the toilet bowl

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  • #5
    Field east
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭Field east


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356876/attic-tank

    I decked water flowing through a wall - at ground level in my house built 10 years earlier . Inside the wall was the toilet . I traced the leak - by chiselling, hammering the floor back along and found that , at about two yards in the copper pipe had come away at a T junction. It was just a bad joint and. Not properly lined up before being tightened



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