Thanks to everyone for the replies. Have now located the blockage which was located inside the flexi hose up to the tap. Sure enough it was a peice of foam from the cylinder! Luckily it had caught in the 'narrowing' of the flexi.
Replaced the flexi hose with a straight through copper pipe and...
Thanks for the response Tony,
If i apply mains pressure at the blocked bath tap pipe is there a chance it may push the blockage back into the cylinder. My thinking is that if this might work I could remove the immersion heater and retrieve the part causing the blockage?
Thanks
Martin
Hi all,
Stripped off the bath panel yesterday to inspect pipe. Unfortunately it looks like floor boards will need removing to trace pipe run as it is impossible to see where it goes to due to lack of space in this area and floor board covering.
However I have run a thin drain clearance...
Hi Andy and John,
Thanks very much for your advice. The homeserve chap was very helpful and tried to wet vac the pipe with the tap body removed but the blockage would not budge. :(
You mentioned ' mains pressure' which I presume means pushing mains pressure down the hot pipe following...
Please help.
I have a blocked hot water supply pipe to the bath. It all started when running a bath, the hot water was reduced to a trickle from the hot tap. (Cold tap for bath and Hot /Cold on sink is running perfectly)
We have had a homeserve engineer out who has removed the hot tap body...