Recent content by Bagpussfoster

Cheers for that. The red handle dosen't keep turning and the boiler does flare up when heating is switched on it's just that I don't think there is any water flowing full stop as you can usually here water rushing into the rads and there is none. It's as if something has completely stopped...

Sorry, no idea on plumbing as you can tell. My point is simply that since turning the red handle gate valve back on the we have had no water flowing at all from hot taps and the tank is not heating up and neither are the radiators (apart from those few minutes). As for the system, we...

I had a minor leak in hot water pipe in bathroom and so turned off the hot water stopcock in airing cupboard. However once turned back on I briefly had hot water until everything stopped suddenly. The hot water tank and radiators don't heat up at all but the pilot light under the gas fire is lit...