I don't know if there are any expert plumbers on here but: On Saturday morning when I woke up, my system pressure on the boiler had dropped below 0.5 and therefore system didn't operate. Followed instructions and increased pressure to 1.0. From that point, no water has come through any of the hot taps in my flat. The cold taps are fine, but if I turn on the hot tap, no water comes out at all - not even cold water. If I go to use the shower, the cold water will come out but as soon as I turn temperature of the water to a certain level, water stops completely. Any ideas? Thanks.
i'm not a plumber,but it sounds to me like you may have left one of the valves open after you re-pressurised the boiler.do a check and make sure you closed the valves off fully
Pressure been low will not effect your water. if no hot water at all, could be divertor valve in boiler. but even then you should get water through to taps (cold). have you touched any valve under the boiler, if you have ,you might have have turned the hot water off.
It wasn't myself that touched any of the valves, it was my dad, but I'll check the valves. I suggested this was probably the reason but he insisted he hadn't budged anything from where it was to start with. We are getting water to the cold taps but hot taps are just bone dry - so hot water being turned off seems a possibility to me. But if hot water was turned off, would cold water come through hot tap?
Hot water has its own valve and pipe. Dependent on make of boiler, there should be a tap with an arrow pointing downwards imprinted near the valve, thats the hot water.
As you're renting contact the landlord/estate agents to send someone round today as a matter of urgency mate, especially due to the weather, you won't have to pay.
If you had to bleed the system to get the pressure up, make sure you've turned the valves back to their correct position. Might sound so simple, but i've done it a couple of times when the pressures dropped on our central heating system.
Have you tried ? 1. Take shower head out of holder and place it on floor of bath/shower 2. Try to operate shower. Providing the shower head is now the lowest part of your water system and the fault is an air-lock, then this should resolve it. Hope this helps.
not if its an electric shower as that has a cold feed that is heated within, kinda like a mini boiler