Hi guys,
I apologise if this question is daft and also if I get a little long winded. I think I know the answer to this question before I post it but wanted to ask anyway in case I am missing a trick.
Basically we have removed a partition wall in our kitchen to extend the size and all the pipework for the downstairs (heating and water) came down the middle of this partition wall. As a result it has required us to reroute the pipework for downstairs on a longer more contrived route.
Since doing this we have had an issue with the flow rate to the kitchen sink whereby the hot water flow rate is too low to trigger the combi - its not much more than a trickle and its a proper pain. Also the heating downstairs takes longer to get hot but does reach full temperature about 15 mins later than it did.
I can't see that alone causing the issue - however I believe the number of pipe bends may have.
We also added a utility room and the hot tapk in there works fine (as are all taps upstairs), so it has to be something after the pipes are routed under the floor in the kitchen.
Is it possible we have simply put in too many bends?
We will be having the kitchen redone at some point again this year anyway so I can look to re-route the pipes in a much more simplistic way, but until then is there much of anything we can do?
Tried adjusting the flow rate at the boiler but although it upped the flow upstairs nicely, the kitchen sink still not got the oomph.
Thanks guys, and again, apologies for the length of question
I apologise if this question is daft and also if I get a little long winded. I think I know the answer to this question before I post it but wanted to ask anyway in case I am missing a trick.
Basically we have removed a partition wall in our kitchen to extend the size and all the pipework for the downstairs (heating and water) came down the middle of this partition wall. As a result it has required us to reroute the pipework for downstairs on a longer more contrived route.
Since doing this we have had an issue with the flow rate to the kitchen sink whereby the hot water flow rate is too low to trigger the combi - its not much more than a trickle and its a proper pain. Also the heating downstairs takes longer to get hot but does reach full temperature about 15 mins later than it did.
I can't see that alone causing the issue - however I believe the number of pipe bends may have.
We also added a utility room and the hot tapk in there works fine (as are all taps upstairs), so it has to be something after the pipes are routed under the floor in the kitchen.
Is it possible we have simply put in too many bends?
We will be having the kitchen redone at some point again this year anyway so I can look to re-route the pipes in a much more simplistic way, but until then is there much of anything we can do?
Tried adjusting the flow rate at the boiler but although it upped the flow upstairs nicely, the kitchen sink still not got the oomph.
Thanks guys, and again, apologies for the length of question