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This is like pulling teeth What is happening now that didn`t before.The bathroom water and kitchen water supply
Glad you are Shaun, thinking my crystal ball needs a service.right i think i know where you coming from
anything that mixes hot and cold
showers, mono style taps etc
to stop this you need to install a single or double check valve just before the valve/tap
This is exactly right:
right i think i know where you coming from
anything that mixes hot and cold
showers, mono style taps etc
to stop this you need to install a single or double check valve just before the valve/tap
Thank you Shaun, I was trying to figure out what happens if there are no single/double check valves installed. The cold water is fed via the mains and the hot water via a tank, are there dangers from not having the valves in place?
Sorry I know I wasn't making much sense as I was trying to understand the situation myself and used whatever words came out of my head to best describe it.Got thrown a curve ball when you said contaminated. Not a word I would of used for hot and cold water problem.
If you use water which is cross contaminating is this likely to damage your health?
No worries, bit like talking to a customer via a phone call, just takes longer via a forum.Sorry I know I wasn't making much sense as I was trying to understand the situation myself and used whatever words came out of my head to best describe it.
Got thrown a curve ball when you said contaminated. Not a word I would of used for hot and cold water problem.
No worries, my money is on "somebody" fitting a new shower or kitchen mixer tap.sorry had my commercial hse hat on
Long story but I moved into a flat and within months had come out in a rash, over time my skin worsened (looked like burns) as did my health yet no one could figure out what the issue was. I moved out for a while back to a friends house and my health improved then I returned back to my flat and the same situation occurred, countless visits to skin specialists. The landlord and I had agreed to low rent for a fixed period of time as long as I took care of fixing things which I agreed to as he spends a lot of time abroad, I didn't think there would any issues as he had the place refurbished and the bathroom had a new suite installed.
There was a leak last month and I had a reliable/verified plumber come out, he checked everything and noticed that in the bathroom the plumbing was incorrect and mentioned the words "cross contamination". I told him about my skin etc.. and he said this was most likely the cause, I contacted the landlord who said that "he couldn't remember who carried out the work for the bathroom" and that no one else had a issue with it but then again the flat was empty after refurbishment and along came stupid me.
This is the reason I am trying to find out what causes cross contamination, the health implications and how to fix it.
A combi boiler and just before I moved in there was a cylinder, which is why the landlord decided to fit a new bathroom suite.
What contamination issue is that then.normally happens with lets say a shower with no check valves internally
mains cold and tank hot, the more powerful mains pressure will push back up into the hot cylinder and then back into the tank supplying the hot cylinder and cause it to overflow
Good point they can easily check the water too see just what the problem is...Only a view I know, but I feel its best to call the water board and get one of their senior guys out to make sure everything in the hse is properly installed vis-a-vis back-flow protection, dead legs etc. Basically, with it affecting his health, he needs the whole system to be given the clean bill of health he needs to carry on living there.
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