Weird hot water issue

[Riley]

Scratching my head a bit with this one. I don’t know if anybody has come across this before. Bath in a property has very basic nonceramic taps when she runs h & c, hot runs cold after about 10 mins. It’s off a combi boiler sonoy a lack of water. When she run just the hot tap it runs continuously hot.

Hope somebody might be able to offer a pearl

 

[Riley]

Right, update. Changed to quarter turn pillar bath mixer tap maximum 9 lpm maximum and the problem has gone. I cannot see what the reduced lpm would have done but it seems to have done the trick.
Thanks all for your thoughts it remains a head scratcher

 

[fixitflav]

Right, update. Changed to quarter turn pillar bath mixer tap maximum 9 lpm maximum and the problem has gone. I cannot see what the reduced lpm would have done but it seems to have done the trick.
Thanks all for your thoughts it remains a head scratcher

Not for the first time, I was wrong! Good that you've cracked it.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Right, update. Changed to quarter turn pillar bath mixer tap maximum 9 lpm maximum and the problem has gone. I cannot see what the reduced lpm would have done but it seems to have done the trick.
Thanks all for your thoughts it remains a head scratcher

You are welcome mate. Taps are a weird thing sometimes.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

24kw boiler ?

 

[Riley]

28 I believe mate

 

[ShaunCorbs]

28 I believe mate

Strange should be able to do more than 9lpm unless the plates shagged

 

[Riley]

Good point well made but boiler is literally only 9 months old. I mean it could be shot but......

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Might be worth a shout to the manufacturer

 

[Riley]

As I say though mate doesn’t affect any other outlet. Kitchen sink buckets out hot, basin buckets out hot. LL didn’t want floors up to check pipework etc so taps was his cheap fix. As I say just a mystery that hot would just cut out from the tap after 10-15 mins

 

[ShaunCorbs]

As I say though mate doesn’t affect any other outlet. Kitchen sink buckets out hot, basin buckets out hot. LL didn’t want floors up to check pipework etc so taps was his cheap fix. As I say just a mystery that hot would just cut out from the tap after 10-15 mins

It's one of those pita faults

 

[Riley]

Mate. Been tearing my hair out LL and tenant sound as a pound but letting agent has gripped my

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Always the same prob the letting has stated a price to the ll

 

[Ric2013]

Still we don't really understand where the heat was going though. The not-a-mixer-tap was not receiving hot water, yet the boiler was firing without boiling/exploding/overheating and locking out. Yet it's not your problem now at least.

 

[Riley]

I know.