No hot water to bath

[Brett Balac]

Hello all,

We are NOT getting hot water to our bath but red hot to shower and sink.

Is this a easy fix?

if not would it cost a lot?

any advice would be a massive help thank you.

 

[Riley]

No flow at all or no hot water??

 

[Brett Balac]

sorry should of said..
got flow it just cold

 

[Riley]

Only the bath tap? What sort of boiler? Combi? Any chance of a pic of the tap?

 

[rpm]

Bath mixer tap with cartridge problem.

 

[Brett Balac]

here are some pics of boiler and taps.

 

[rpm]

Err, 15 & 22mm pipe there on the taps plus PTFE in the wrong places, is there more to this story Brett? Somebody had a play with it?

 

[Brett Balac]

no one has touched the pipes since we have been in the house about 6 years, we got some hot early in the 6years but the last 2 years its gone completely cold.
is this a botch job then?

 

[rpm]

no one has touched the pipes since we have been in the house about 6 years, we got some hot early in the 6years but the last 2 years its gone completely cold.
is this a botch job then?

Wouldn`t say botched just unusal to see different size pipes and yes maybe the joint with the PTFE could be called a botch job. Take it both pipes up to the taps are cold?

 

[Aire]

Only open the hot tap 1/4 of the way and see if you get hot water through

 

[Brett Balac]

yes and no - the hot pipe is warm and water cold. when i turn the sink cold and shower cold water on it gets slightly warmer but noway near hot.

 

[E4gas]

do you get any hot water if you slow the flow from hot tap

 

[rpm]

Only open the hot tap 1/4 of the way and see if you get hot water through

do you get any hot water if you slow the flow from hot tap

As above and wait awhile, let the water flow out.

 

[Brett Balac]

never thought of that and yes we do get hot water but it seems very temperamental, not had this hot in a very long time

open the tap full and its very cold

 

[Aire]

never thought of that and yes we do get hot water but it seems very temperamental, not had this hot in a very long time

open the tap full and its very cold

I would recommend you call a gas safe engineer to check the boiler over, there are a couple reason for poor hot water performance which should be easy to diagnose.

Also be advised that your boiler will only deliver 10 litres maximum of hot water a min, if you have a good flow rate and open your tap full, the boiler won't keep up with demand.

 

[Brett Balac]

Thank you everyone for the advice it looks like we have hot water now only when we open the tap alittle not all the way. Simple i know but we both dont have a clue about this stuff.

thanks again and we will get the boiler checked thanks

 

[rpm]

Thank you everyone for the advice it looks like we have hot water now only when we open the tap alittle not all the way. Simple i know but we both dont have a clue about this stuff.

thanks again and we will get the boiler checked thanks

Chances are we don`t have a clue how to do what you two do for a living mate.