We had to turn off our hot water supply to fix a tap and since then the hot water is slow running from the bath tap upstairs.Is there something we can do to restore it ourselves without paying hefty plumbing bills. We have an upstairs water tank and someone advised us to bang the pipes until it clears.All the other hot water taps running fine.
2007-03-08 08:20:27 · 9 answers · asked by pups 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Take a length of hose and use it to connect the cold to the hot tap. Turn both on fully. The air lock should be forced out by the higher presure of the cold water. If you have a mixer tap, hold the palm of your hand, very firmly or you'll soak yourself, against its outlet and then turn on the taps.
That's what a local plumber did to solve my similar problem. Took about five minutes and I was charged for an hour and a call out fee.
2007-03-08 09:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You have an air lock in the tap pipework.If you can get some hose pipe and fit it on the hot tap and the other end on the bath cold tap then what you have to do is this.open the hot tap and then slowly open the cold tap and let it run for about 20 seconds. Now turn off the cold tap and pull the hose off the hot tap and see if it runs okay now.If it still runs slow, go through this procedure again until hot water runs okay.
2007-03-08 09:06:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hot Water Running Slow
2016-10-19 08:29:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remove the aerator form the faucte running slow. Clean out the debris. Sometimes when you shut off the water and turn it on again debris will be shaken loose from pipes and most commonly from the sediment that has collected in the bottom of your water heater. Clean out the aereators and you r pressure should return.
2007-03-08 09:57:29 · answer #4 · answered by ender3113 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Without the heater being on run all the taps, you should hear a splurt as the air comes out then it should be ok.
2007-03-08 08:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by tucksie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turn it off then turn it back on again with bath tap open.
2007-03-08 08:24:18 · answer #6 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can bang on the pipes to try and reduce te sediment that mihgt be in the pipes, also try shutting the valves off on the others to force all water to go to the slow running one and maybe that will help.
2007-03-08 08:26:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sounds to me that you havn`t fixed the leaky tap correctly. take it apart again and look for a problem xx
2007-03-09 11:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by want to walk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that might work but you neighbours will complain. try running all your hot taps at once , it will force the bubble up into the tank.
2007-03-08 08:34:47 · answer #9 · answered by jonnydemonic 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋