Hot water brown in colour

[neald]

Hi, just moved into a 30 year old house, i have a problem with my hot water, when i fill the bath the water is a very light brown colour, not enough to be noticed if i was only to fill the sink. The tank in the roomspace looks clean enough!

Also one radiator in a room also seems to groan, gurgle about an hour after turning on heating, after than its seems to settle. I have bled it on a couple of occassions but still doing it, there is no sign of leakage!!!!!!!!, have i anything to worry about!

 

[kevplumb]

primatic system and its lost the bubble

 

[neald]

enhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh whats that in laymans terms!

 

[kevplumb]

your copper cylinder has a double bell inside it that fills your central heating then airlocks to keep the primary water (heating) and secondary water (hot ) seperate
you have lost the airlock
look in your loft and count the tank(s)
then post back
in case im barking up the wrong tree

 

[wilhelm]

kev, perhaps.....youre just barking

 

[kevplumb]

you been at the sauce again ???

 

[wilhelm]

ill say one thing, your fault finding is spot on

 

[kevplumb]

one trys and trys and trys and..........................and eventually one gets it right

 

[wilhelm]

respect due ,where respect is due.

 

[neald]

ok, will be tomorrow b4 i can look as kids are in bed, so ifs its what u say it is is it an empty the wallet job!

 

[kevplumb]

no its an empty the cylinder job
(however should you like me to come and empty your wallet)

 

[neald]

more i think about it it sounds like it could be the problem, when we first moved in 4 mnths ago the tank was empty and i know the house was vacant for a year so perhaps the ball thingy stuck, also when i went to turn the values on to fill the tank they had seized, only after a bit of twoing and throwing did the tank start to fill!
I take it i simply shut of the valve and turn on the taps to drain the tank!!!!!!!!

 

[kevplumb]

no
you need to drain the cylinder should be a drain on the cold feed in

 

[neald]

ok cheers will go exploring tomorrow and post back, thanks for the suggestions so far

 

[namsag]

Could be a standard cylinder with the coil split (depending height of tanks over flow would not drip)