new taps fitted now hot water one is only a trickle
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Are they 1/4 turn tap handles?
What type of hot water system do you have - combination boiler or hot water cylinder?
If cylinder do you have mains prssure to cold tap only?
If cylinder how high is the cold water stirage cistern above taps?
What type of hot water system do you have - combination boiler or hot water cylinder?
If cylinder do you have mains prssure to cold tap only?
If cylinder how high is the cold water stirage cistern above taps?
ok the taps are ordinary twist taps, nothing fancy, we replaced like with like, the hot water is comming from the cylinder in hot press, the cold is mains. The sink next to the bath is fine the pressure is normal, it just seems to be the hot tap in the bath! Thanks for helping!
You mean a normal washered tap ie several turns to open to full on.
Have you used a flexible tap connector - the bore can be restrictive on the cheap ones. What size is the pipework 15 or 22mm?
Is the tap valve a 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch size compare with old taps (you are not comparing the thread this will be 3/4 - you need to know the valve size)
Have you used a flexible tap connector - the bore can be restrictive on the cheap ones. What size is the pipework 15 or 22mm?
Is the tap valve a 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch size compare with old taps (you are not comparing the thread this will be 3/4 - you need to know the valve size)
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Have you checked to make sure the taps are suitable for low pressure systems?
Unless there's a fault with the tap and the washers not rising perhaps an airlock.
Put your hand over the spout, open up the hot. The open cold and backflow cold water through the hot pipework for a minute os so.
Put your hand over the spout, open up the hot. The open cold and backflow cold water through the hot pipework for a minute os so.
If it worked for a while there is still likely to be an airlock.
Try opening other hot taps in turn.
If that doesn't work then blast mains pressure water through the tank connector (and through the hot pipework) in the cistern above.
Drag up a hose connected to the mains. Don't go mad with the pressure though.
Try opening other hot taps in turn.
If that doesn't work then blast mains pressure water through the tank connector (and through the hot pipework) in the cistern above.
Drag up a hose connected to the mains. Don't go mad with the pressure though.
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