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Originally Posted by El Boccadillo
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Originally Posted by timwilky
The obvious thing to check.
The pipe from your cold storage tank should feed into the top of your hot water tank.
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The feed from the cold water tank in an indirect system always goes into the BOTTOM of the hot water cylinder. The head of water (ie, the water in the higher cold tank) then forces the hot water out of the TOP of the cylinder. |
You are quite correct there sir
however the majority of hot water tanks in the UK have a connection for the cold water feed at the top of the tank (this is however connected to a pipe inside the cylinder that goes to the bottom
) I hasten to add not ALL are like this.
it is releatively easy to identify the cold feed (it's bloody cold for one
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I concur with the blockage is most likely at any stop valve in the system as this is usually the smallest orifice in the system, likewise though it could be at the outlet of the tank (if something has indeed Floated
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I would however fix up the ballcock and slacken the outlet of the tank then having an acomplice allow the tank to fill whilst you watch for water at the outlet (have a towel handy and someone ready to stop the cold header and turn on a hot tap
if sufficient water comes out unimpeded then start tracing through the outlet side for valves.
should there be insufficient water flow then look towards the inlet side.
hope this helps (and hasn't just confused the matter further
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