Overflow problem

[Kay80]

Hi there please can someone help a single woman here!!

Briefly about a year ago I had a burst pipe in my loft. The builders were in the property today to fit a new ceiling in my bathroom. They were at the end of the day cleaning up and running both the hot and the cold water together for about 10-1 mintues - the next thing there is a gush of water running out of the overflow pipes outside and the loft floor got wet, and dripping into the room.

An emergency plumber came out and says....there could be a block in the overflow pipes....could this be true? I understand one would get a clearer picture if you were looking at it, but basically the plumber let the water fill up and saw that the water was going down the overflow pipe but not coming back up again and at this point the water was coming out of the overflow outside again

Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[Armo74]

If it was a mixer tap the builders were using and they were running both hot and cold together for a long period of time and the hot and cold mix together inside the tap and not separate the pressure of the mains cold could have forced the hot back up to the CWSC increasing the water level making it overflow.

 

[Kay80]

Thanks for your reply - I am so sorry but what is a mixer tap?? they were running the water from the bath taps

 

[Armo74]

Are your taps 2 seperate ones or is it just 1 spout with hot and cold handles either side of it? Also did the problem only arise when the builders had ran the taps?

 

[Kay80]

1 spout with hot and cold on either side. Yes this has never done it with me before but only did it when they ran both together for a long time.

 

[Armo74]

When you run the tap for a bath just like lots of other people you would normally run the hot first then the cold after, the problem would only reveal itself when you run them both at the same time if the tap has not been correctly plumbed in. On your system the cold feed for the tap should be taken from the CWSC to equalize the pressures.

 

[Kay80]

Thank you - We had a bath after the builders where in.....and it wasnt overflowing......

 

[Agile]

I never know what I am expected to think when someone tells me they are a single woman!

This emergency plumber does not seem able to talk very intelligently.

Tony

 

[Kay80]

Excuse me? Nothing intended by saying I am a single woman - it was a statement to enhance that I am a woman with no 'man' abilities and hopefully by my posting on her, I would find someone ideally 'a man' to guide me.

As for the emergency plumber, I can not speak for him....

 

[Agile]

If you did plumbing you would soon learn that both male and female customers are both capable of totally misunderstanding plumbing however clearly its explained to them.

Then there are some female plumbers as well and at least one transexual ( male to female ) plumber ( in Ealing ). Perhaps she posts here?

Tony

 

[Kay80]

OK well I am glad to know you are very well knowledged, however this is a FORUM to look for possible answers, not a 'did you not know' what is going on.

If I did do you think I would waste energy on here?

Thanks for the 'advice'

 

[xr4x4]

OK well I am glad to know you are very well knowledged, however this is a FORUM to look for possible answers, not a 'did you not know' what is going on.

If I did do you think I would waste energy on here?

Thanks for the 'advice'

Ha!