Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help me diagnose a problem that has just developed this morning. My upstairs bathroom hot water flow has reduced to virtually zero, while the cold water mains is also reduced but still workable downstairs.
I have a gravity fed system, where the cold water loft tank feeds both the downstairs hot water cylinder and the upstairs cold water taps in the bathroom(which again are working but at a reduced flowrate). The downstairs hot water taps are operating at a reduced flow rate but still working.
We have rung the water board who will come and check the incoming mains pressure on Thursday. What confuses me is that I thought that the incoming cold mains shouldn't effect hot water pressure from a system like mine i.e. All our hot water pressure is created by the loft tank height.
So, short of just running out of water I thought our hot water pressure should be unaffected by the incoming mains?
Is this right or is there some indirect way the hot water pressure might be effected by a reduced mains pressure i.e. cylinder tank not filling quickly enough?
Any comments would be welcome.
Thanks.
I wonder if anyone can help me diagnose a problem that has just developed this morning. My upstairs bathroom hot water flow has reduced to virtually zero, while the cold water mains is also reduced but still workable downstairs.
I have a gravity fed system, where the cold water loft tank feeds both the downstairs hot water cylinder and the upstairs cold water taps in the bathroom(which again are working but at a reduced flowrate). The downstairs hot water taps are operating at a reduced flow rate but still working.
We have rung the water board who will come and check the incoming mains pressure on Thursday. What confuses me is that I thought that the incoming cold mains shouldn't effect hot water pressure from a system like mine i.e. All our hot water pressure is created by the loft tank height.
So, short of just running out of water I thought our hot water pressure should be unaffected by the incoming mains?
Is this right or is there some indirect way the hot water pressure might be effected by a reduced mains pressure i.e. cylinder tank not filling quickly enough?
Any comments would be welcome.
Thanks.