Recent content by Rabbitgirl

I am praying that mice aren't involved :? We had a feel around the gate valve but it all seemed okay. Your suggestion of a piece of plastic was what were thinking as we would solve it for a while then suddenly, we'd turn on a tap and.... nothing!!! The other thing is that some of the...

Thanks guys (assumptions being made :wink: ) for your help. We put an appliance tee into the system just before the toilet cistern which we can now attached our hose to without soaking all parties involved and will make the job quicker if we have to do it again. We had stopped the mains fill...

Thanks. Checkeds that. After 20 minutes of running the shower the level in the tank dropped by about a quarter of it's capacity. Still well above the take off for the bathroom. The shower take off is actually marginally higher than the other two take offs - one to bathroom, one to hot water...

Right off to DIY store/plumbers merchants to see if we can find a good way of fitting hose (on mains pressure) to one of the taps or the toilet cistern feed (easy to get at and remove from the cistern) so that we can do the mains pressure thing again (at least we'll get the bathroom back if...

Also no knocking at all in the system, do you usally get knocking with airlocks or not necessarily?

Great real time replies fantastic :D Thanks. The pipe work where I am getting the blockage is literally just a pipe from the tank to the bathroom where it is then split to the basin, bath and toilet. The shower pump is on a totally separate line from the tank so I don't think it can be...

That would explain why forcing mains through sorts the problem temporarily wouldn't it. But how can I get rid of the problem? I can't do the mains pressure thing on my own so end up with no bathroom until my husband comes home to help me sort it out and we are having to do it more and more...

Yeah I get that but it is not one blocked tap, the WHOLE bathroom (basin, sink and toilet cistern) have no cold water. WHERE do I cut the pipe without knowing where the blockage is. The distance from the outlet on the tank to the bathroom is about 10/12 metres with most of the pipe...

We have a blockage IN the pipe. We have tried forcing it back to the tank but no joy. That does seem to solve the problem temporarily each time but it comes back quicker and quicker. The tank IS clean as it has BEEN cleaned. No debris in there. Three outlets from the tank all at same level...

Thanks, not that. No cold water to any of the outlets in the bathroom, toilet, bath or sink. I take them off to remove the limescale once a month anyway.

Ah... I've just re-read your answer. You mean to cut the supply from the tank to the pipe (I thought you mean the mains into the tank ..sorry) and then drain the water from between the tank and the bathroom. My problem (as I see it)... there is NO water coming out in the bathroom so how far...

Okay. I have THREE blocked taps, one whole bathroom with several meters of pipe between the bathroom and the tank. and I think I DID clean the tank -- i.e it was drained, the last couple of inches of water was scooped out, the bottom of the tank was sponged and and I cleaned the tank. I'm a...

Okay but how do I find/remove the blockage? I can drain the tank by running hot taps and that is how I drained it and cleaned it previously - but it was pretty clean TBH, just a little "silt" in the bottom, no big "bits". Mor information about my set up.... there are three outlets from the...

The tank looks completely clean. The last time we blew the pipe out we also had someone watching at the tank and the only thing that came back was water.

I wonder if anyone on here can help me.... about 7 years ago we had a loft extension done and, at the same time, the plumber on that job replaced our existing "family" bathroom. Once he'd finished I noticed that a lot of swarf and "muck" was emerging from the taps in the bathroom (bath and...