Softus said:If you can hear a trickle then this indicates that water is probably still entering the cistern.astraea said:sorry meant to add when the ball was held up when the tap was swithced off it didnt look like the water level was rising but i could hear an occasional trickle???
Thanks for answering some of the burning questions Vikki, but another one of the long-standing question is: when you're holding up the float arm, does ANY water still pass through the valve and into the cistern?
Also, when you say that the cylinder has been "off" for two days, what do you mean?
Regarding the question about the water in the cistern being cold/tepid/warm, do you feel the temperature when the cylinder was cold, or when it was still warm?
It's still possible that you have a faulty shower mixer valve, and I can't see anywhere that you've told us whether or not you have a shower mixer valve anywhere.
Do you have a shower mixer valve?
To summarise the questions in this post:
1. When you're holding up the float arm, does ANY water still pass through the valve and into the cistern?
i assume so as i can hear occasional trickling although i cant actually see anything
2. How did you "turn off" the cylinder?
sorry i just meant that the hot water has been turned off altogether with the switch next to the hot water tank
3. Do you have a shower mixer valve in the house?
astraea said:the washing machine was disconeected and reconected a week or so ago when we fitted a new base unit but the overflow was already dripping then as far as i can remember
astraea, please, pretty please, before one of us dies, could you have mercy on me and answer the other two questions?astraea said:Softus said:<snip>
To summarise the questions in this post:
1. When you're holding up the float arm, does ANY water still pass through the valve and into the cistern?
i assume so as i can hear occasional trickling although i cant actually see anything
2. How did you "turn off" the cylinder?
sorry i just meant that the hot water has been turned off altogether with the switch next to the hot water tank
3. Do you have a shower mixer valve in the house?
no we dont have a shower at all in the house.
Don't be so disparaging! Ollie was referring to the pipe out of the top of the cylinder, which only gets hot by convection.Agile said:That suggestion is unlikely to be much use in practice because the leakage is relatively small and the water at the base of the cylinder is cold as its only heated above the coil or immersion element.
Not!Agile said:In any case its irrelevant
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