Hi,
My cold water upsatirs is just trickling out the taps! This happened yesterday. When using the shower it ran out of hot water (not uncommon as its a power shower and was used after the kids had had a bath etc...) The shower was delivering hardly any water and the pump for the shower was going crazy, so I turned the shower off and put the immersion on to heat up some more water.
Since then the cold water coming out the taps upstairs is just a dribble, although the shower is now fine and the downstairs cold water pressure is excellent.
I am not sure what it may be, but my thoughts are around maybe some air got into the system (but would that effect downstairs as well) when the shower went mad. Or maybe some debirs has got into the pipes somehow.
I have looked at the cold water tank today and its full and seems clean from any debris etc... (Even had my arm in there to check no blockage on the cold water feed out of the tank to the cold water system). The cold water tank looks fine and seems to fill ok, ballcock is ok etc..( although maybe a little slow. Its a 50 gallon/227 litre tank with lid and vent pipe and so on.
Any ideas what it may be - and why the downstairs is not effected (could just be graivty I suppose, or maybe all my downstairs cold is fed from the rising main and not the tank??)
Thank you,
Simon
My cold water upsatirs is just trickling out the taps! This happened yesterday. When using the shower it ran out of hot water (not uncommon as its a power shower and was used after the kids had had a bath etc...) The shower was delivering hardly any water and the pump for the shower was going crazy, so I turned the shower off and put the immersion on to heat up some more water.
Since then the cold water coming out the taps upstairs is just a dribble, although the shower is now fine and the downstairs cold water pressure is excellent.
I am not sure what it may be, but my thoughts are around maybe some air got into the system (but would that effect downstairs as well) when the shower went mad. Or maybe some debirs has got into the pipes somehow.
I have looked at the cold water tank today and its full and seems clean from any debris etc... (Even had my arm in there to check no blockage on the cold water feed out of the tank to the cold water system). The cold water tank looks fine and seems to fill ok, ballcock is ok etc..( although maybe a little slow. Its a 50 gallon/227 litre tank with lid and vent pipe and so on.
Any ideas what it may be - and why the downstairs is not effected (could just be graivty I suppose, or maybe all my downstairs cold is fed from the rising main and not the tank??)
Thank you,
Simon