Hot water pressure help...

[David83]

Hi guys i'm hoping someone in here will be able to help a bit.

We've recently moved into a rented house and the hot water pressure is abysmal (compared to my last place anyway). I've been in contact with the landlord who were also the previous tennants and they just came back with

"oh thats always been like that, we had our friend round some time ago and he couldn't do anything with it" sure enough they sent him round anyway and then said pretty much the same thing.

It takes (and i've been very anal here) 16 seconds to fill a pint glass up with hot water in the kitchen. Is that what the industry could call within acceptable limits or should this be somehting that could be sorted??

Your help is greatly appreciated here, i'm certainly nothing of a heating or hot water engineer so if my explanation is a bit 'light' on detail let me know.

 

[bengasman]

Sounds like you have a flow problem, not pressure.
Some details would not go amiss

 

[David83]

What do you need to know?

It's also the same in the bathroom upstairs. I expect it from the bath as it has some fancy mixer style tap on the side of it but the sink tap is poor.

Sounds like you have a flow problem, not pressure.
Some details would not go amiss

 

[David83]

Does it also make any difference that the cold water is fine?

 

[bengasman]

Complete listing of the system

 

[David83]

Ok,

Downstairs in the kitchen, is a mixer tap and Baxi solo 250 PF boiler

Upstairs, Electric shower, Bath with taps and a seperate spout on the oppostite side of tub and sink with another mixer tap, Inside the airing cupboard is a big tank with a temperature dial attached to it.

Sorry if that sounds really dumb but it's the extent of my knowledge. Is it easier to get a second guy in?

 

[bengasman]

Sounds like some restriction either in the outlet of the cylinder, or between the tank in the loft and the cylinder.
Very unlikely that this has always been the case as cheapskate landlord claims.

 

[David83]

If it is one of those things is it something that would be expensive to fix?

Sounds like some restriction either in the outlet of the cylinder, or between the tank in the loft and the cylinder.
Very unlikely that this has always been the case as cheapskate landlord claims.

 

[bengasman]

Depends what it is and where it is; could be 50 quid, could be a grand.