plumbing problem

Level 5 User Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 119

hi chaps, just a quicky, i've got an under sink waterheater and it feeds 2 vented taps......problem is that when i turn on 1 tap the other 1 pisses water 2, even though the tap is turned off....any imput please as i wanna go home and im stuck in london
Cheers
Andy

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

so both taps put out water when you turn either one on?

Where is it? upstairs/downstairs/ caravan etc?

Level 5 User Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 119

Hi chris, its a heat sadia stream-line 7, 3kw 7 ltr under sink heater.
mains cold inlet -and 2 vented taps.
Have installed pressure regulater on mains side [7psi] and installed 2x vented taps on the hot water side but u turn 1 on and the other comes on to.................im probably staring at the problem but 2 tied to see it Confused

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

vented taps are cack, we have established this now.

Check the plumbing again and make sure thers not a bypass valve to allow both to feed off 1.

Vented taps the bane of workshops and caravans etc the world over.

Level 5 User Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 119

hi matey,back home now,left them with hotwater and 2 responsive taps ha ha,tomorow it will be somone elses problem.b back on after i've eaten got some catching up to do havent had time to scratch my a*** just of late letalone use the pc...................
cheers

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

Fuk me, Chris is a plumber.....lol (aswell) lol

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

DIY is another of my talents.

Done a lot to my mums house, moved radiators, fitted new ones, wiring, leccy shower etc etc, nearly lost an eye grinding a channel in the floor to move the radiator from one wall to another.

had to sort out the bathroom drains again.

I had to raise the pipes from the sink to allow a run off down wards but but the baths low so the u bends very shallow and for some reason after about a year the bath now spits back up when you drain a full sink.

I have removed all the pipes etc cleaned em out even took the plate off the guttering downpipe and cleared the crap there but I still have the problem.

its not helped that the drain from the bath to the waste pipe is near horizontal but aside from raising the bath ior removing the guttering then making nice new holes in the wall I dunno what to do.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Level 5 User Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 119

Sussed the problem............its a bloody single point heater instead of multipoint.........what a knumbnut Confused

tell u last time i do vented system'''s Twisted Evil