Hi all. So I am starting my new bathroom project and I've had this issue before but never sought help.
I have a Potterton Powermax HE and I am trying to find a way to turn the water off effectively to do various works. I turn my stopcock off in the kitchen and the cold stops almost instantly with the taps all open. But the hot just keeps coming out, albeit after a while it is only a trickle... but it's just been trickling for two hours and doesn't show any sign of stopping. I'm doing works upstairs and have opened all the taps in the house and strangely the downstairs taps don't run, only the top!! I thought gravity would pull it down instead of push it up!
The pipes run through the middle of the house in the joists. I can only see one shut off valve in the boiler cupboard (outside of the cover) with a red handle which I think ends up at the D.W.H cold water inlet. The pipe comes out of the floor > shut off valve > splits down (back into the joists) and up to the expansion tank where it does a loop thing and goes back down to the DWH Cold Inlet. I have tried turning this off also thinking it might stop it but nope.
I would have thought there would have been a shut off valve directly after the DWH Hot OUT that would cut any hot water coming out the system but there isn't.
Can anyone help me please as it's so frustrating as I will need to be turning it off and on a few times whilst I do this project.
Thanks in advance.
I have a Potterton Powermax HE and I am trying to find a way to turn the water off effectively to do various works. I turn my stopcock off in the kitchen and the cold stops almost instantly with the taps all open. But the hot just keeps coming out, albeit after a while it is only a trickle... but it's just been trickling for two hours and doesn't show any sign of stopping. I'm doing works upstairs and have opened all the taps in the house and strangely the downstairs taps don't run, only the top!! I thought gravity would pull it down instead of push it up!
The pipes run through the middle of the house in the joists. I can only see one shut off valve in the boiler cupboard (outside of the cover) with a red handle which I think ends up at the D.W.H cold water inlet. The pipe comes out of the floor > shut off valve > splits down (back into the joists) and up to the expansion tank where it does a loop thing and goes back down to the DWH Cold Inlet. I have tried turning this off also thinking it might stop it but nope.
I would have thought there would have been a shut off valve directly after the DWH Hot OUT that would cut any hot water coming out the system but there isn't.
Can anyone help me please as it's so frustrating as I will need to be turning it off and on a few times whilst I do this project.
Thanks in advance.
