Recent content by Gordon30

thanks for help folks, I'll get a chance to have a look at things again this afternoon.

Hello, re heating elements, when the storage heaters were removed years back everything was put onto normal meter so there is power to elements all day. We have them set on timers but can override and have them permanently on which is how things have been recently. Couple of weeks back I was...

Okay, reopened left lhand cylinder cw isol valve, so both cw isol valves are open - water at tap is cold. close re close left hand isol valve - water is properly hot coming from right hand tank do the reverse and just take from left hand tank and water is properly cold. open both again and...

Okay, thanks for prv advice. more info - I ran the water totally cold, switched off emements on both tanks, ran water totally cold whilst isolating each tank in turn and together. I then heated water in the right hand tank only. With the cold supply to left hand tank closed I ran the hot tap...

Thanks for reply John. This drawing shows how the hot outs were when problem first discovered. You can see both hot outs connected at top of tanks then pipe taking hot water to bathrooms etc. We were getting about 180 or so litres of hot water then it would run out - both tanks are 210 litre...

Hello, We have two linked megaflwo tanks as in picture. Recently we noticed we were running out of hot water very quickly. It turned out the left hand tank was not giving out any hot water, just the right. Before the plumber came to look at it the hot water outs were connected in series at the...