hot water at a cold tap

[dom brennan]

hi all my mates just rang me he's boss has built he's own house and done all the plumbing he's self. he has opened a cold tap today and its running hot the toilets flushing hot. it was fine 2 weeks ago anyone got any ideas what this could be

 

[cr0ft]

Plumbed them in wrongly then forgot to turn the boiler on for 2 weeks? 🙂

 

[dom brennan]

I've just said the exact same or the gas wasn't on 2 weeks ago.

 

[cr0ft]

Unless all the cold taps are running hot then he's messed up the plumbing somewhere.

 

[dom brennan]

the hot and cold are both running hot and so is the toilet so i think he's teed the hot into the cold would that make it run hot or not

 

[Shower Engineer]

Cold NRV stuck open on a shower?

 

[lambchop]

Could be Hot and cold pipes too close together. It happened at a hotel, they put pipes in screed they said they insulated them but it took a while for the cold to run cold. Risk of legionella but on the plus side it was a luxury hotel and flushing the loo looked awesome as great big plumes of steam bellowed out and the bottom of the pan never had skid marks

brings a smile too my face when one of the old sweats shouted "we have a hot flusher....!" Again.

always interesting seeing some of our European plumbing brothers work :smile::smile::smile::smile:

 

[Toxic Ted]

Secondary return plumbed into the cold somewhere?

 

[Ermintrude]

Balanced cold in wrong place

 

[brum]

dodgy mixer tap mixer shower or nrv on TMV either on hot water cyl or under bath have seen this problem on all of the above or maybe a connection problem time to start lifting floorboards..brum

 

[Centralheatking]

We did a big French lpg boiler years ago in a huge detached place in wiltshire
no english instructions so we followed the english ones we had for its smaller
brother. RESULT One of the decs comes in asks is there supposed to be water
pouring out of the outside pipe at the back door ?

Oops - that was the incoming LPG gas supply - never mind we got it right

Chk

 

[brum]

We did a big French lpg boiler years ago in a huge detached place in wiltshire
no english instructions so we followed the english ones we had for its smaller
brother. RESULT One of the decs comes in asks is there supposed to be water
pouring out of the outside pipe at the back door ?

Oops - that was the incoming LPG gas supply - never mind we got it right

Chk

Brill these ones are the best I had to fit a pellet boiler with Italian instructions but better than that menu on boiler was Italian this guy had imported it from Italy to save money took 5 times longer to commission none of us were eyeties..brum

 

[Centralheatking]

Ok Brum

1. as you are into pellet boilers
my spies tell me there are loads of
rogue pellets on the market which have
poor calorific value - and I know there is
no standard for this type of fuel so far

Whats your take ? - Croppie and I are on patrol
in this area - Chking

2. Why are you called Brum ? I went thro there today
at 11.00am and had to leave the M6 for an hour
pay a visit for an hour my target was a Yuk place
CHking

Its poets day tomorrow

 

[brum]

Ok Brum

1. as you are into pellet boilers
my spies tell me there are loads of
rogue pellets on the market which have
poor calorific value - and I know there is
no standard for this type of fuel so far

Whats your take ? - Croppie and I are on patrol
in this area - Chking

2. Why are you called Brum ? I went thro there today
at 11.00am and had to leave the M6 for an hour
pay a visit for an hour my target was a Yuk place
CHking

Its poets day tomorrow

Alright bud answer to no 1
Im purely a plumber installing whats to be ive only done 5 pellet boilers a pal of mine pushes these boilers with the intention to sell pellets I will ask him this question over the weekend.
question 2.
cos im a scouser..brum

 

[brum]

That's yer best bet mate stay on motorway and keep going.There was 2 famous things to come out of Birmingham the M6 and HP sauce Hp sauce has even give up the ghost and left I was given this name by my good Scottish friends on Arran I actually do not know why seems im the only one around these parts without an accent..brum

 

[jonnyswamp]

hi all my mates just rang me he's boss has built he's own house and done all the plumbing he's self. he has opened a cold tap today and its running hot the toilets flushing hot. it was fine 2 weeks ago anyone got any ideas what this could be

Go around to his newly built house and just laugh hysterically straight in his face for a full 2 minutes, then tell him to ring british gas so he can get robbed