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I don’t know if I do mean what you think I mean. There are two pipes, one comes into the tank from the side, it is fed from the big cold water tank, it has a ball valve on it. The other pipe, the one I am talking about, seems to come into the attic from the airing cupboard. It goes up and over...

Ok thanks. I’ll see if I can find what you’re referring to.

I will need to have a look. I’ll check when I get home as hot water will have been off all day at that point. Sorry I mean hot water! There is an electric immersion element but we never use it. No work done. I don’t know if it’s the ball valve as the pipe that is feeding the tank when this...

Hello everyone. I have noticed that the overflow from the CH H/W expansion tank in the loft has started dripping. I investigated today and found that there’s a pipe running up through the ceiling into the loft and into the top of the tank and this pipe has hot water running out of it. If I...

I suspect it probably is the same supply. And since the issue has only recently occurred it could be a recent part failure of some sort,

That’s useful to know! I think my wife did change it after we moved in which may explain it!

Thanks. I’ll see if I can get the pipes checked at least and then look at getting a new shower.

Thank you everyone for your help. I’ll get onto a Plumber tomorrow!

Is it likely to be the isolator though? The shower itself always switches on, but if the issue with the water occurs it’s resolved by turning on the bathroom tap. I don’t ever need to use the switch.

Thanks. Maybe worth getting a plumber to have a wee look then!

Is that inside the shower unit? Why should turning on the bath tap activate it? And is it likely to be an expensive fix?

No idea. At least 3 years old as it was in the house when we moved in in 2023 and probably wasn’t new then.

It looks that way. No kinks in the hose. I think it came with the shower. When the issue occurs, disconnecting the shower head from the base makes no difference.

It says Redring Expressions Revive on it and there seems to just be a cold water pipe going in.

I don’t think it’s a combi. It’s an oil boiler in the garage and there’s a couple of water tanks in the attic and a cylinder in the airing cupboard so I’m guessing that means it’s gravity fed? There are pipes running vertically in the airing cupboard and there’s a T piece coming off the cold...