Recent content by Zinger

Thanks fellas, replaced ball valve and sitting pretty now

Right, its a bit late to be flooding the house, will have a shot tomorrow, cheers for your help fellas, will update in the morning

Ah you mean undo the bolt on the valve and see if water comes out, will try that now

What part is the outlet on the stoptap?

Ah, the tank is right up against the ceiling to I can get my hand in there and move the ball valve up and down but can't actually see anything. Unless there's a less painful way of doing this, i'm going to dismantle the pipes going to the tank, take it down and have a look.

Yeah I know, I'm kicking myself for not knowing about the main water valve in the cellar Anyway everything I switched off, turned off, on, twisted etc is now back to its original position

The valve on pipe to the ball valve is like your photo, it seems to be working fine, turns easily and stops at either end. But opening it or closing it doesn't seem to make a difference, no water comes through and into the tank. Do you mean jammed closed? To confirm then: - the valve...

Checked the ball valve, its dropped and I can move it easily up and down in the tank. The crusty valve is, like you said, above the cylinder and the pipe goes down to the base of the cylinder. Do you reckon its snapped shut? What exactly does that valve control? and why would that effect the...

The hot water cylinder, fed by the overhead water tank (as is my understanding?). Yep, thats the valve. Basically it has two of these valves and a tap, the tap i'm certain provides water to the overhead tank. Not sure what the two valves control

Hello, I was changing a few taps about in the bathroom so I went to switch off the water. - First turned off the cold water supply to the overhead tank - Next turned the other two valves coming off the hot water boiler off, one had a bit of crusting so I WD40'd it and twisted it, the other...