Zero's words from last month
"Word of advice H? turn off your stop cock till the burst is fixed, then on your cold mains tap (in the kitchen I guess) then the stopcock, cost there will be a lot of crap flushing through your system and you want it straight down the sink, not into your water tank (or gumming up your ballcock) "
At the time I was unable to do as Zero advised.
Today I needed to change the thermo cartrige in my shower so I closed the gate valves and did I the swop but no hot water appeared.
It turned out to be that THE gate valve for the hot water feed to the whole house had jamed shut. I bought a new gate valve and forunately the cap nut threads were the same and I could substitute it.
I had to drain the main tank ( with its bylaw 30 kit installed) so with the lid off was able to inspect it.
As Zero warned - I was amazed how much fine sand was in the tank. It all arrived via the stopcock. I go to all the effort to protect my water supply and the water board feed me sand :-(
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" I go to all the effort to protect my water supply and the water board feed me sand :-("
They unblock water pipes with sand blasted in at high pressure to remove the remains of animals which decay , and the decaying remains emit gasses which blow up the corpse so they stick in the bends of the pipes.
So sand is the least of your worries.
:-)
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Get enough sand in there and you have a built in filter!
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>> I go to all the effort to protect my water supply and the water board feed me sand
Don't tell the water board or they'll charge y'all for it.
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>> THE gate valve for the hot water feed to the whole house had jammed shut
Something I remember from my plumbing course - always do up / undo gate valves to their fullest extent then back off ¼ turn to prevent them seizing up. Same with non-thermo radiator valves.
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Same with all valves.
The water bored also feed you crap as well as sand. We make Tea from bottled water as it is so awful.
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>> Tea from bottled water as it is so awful
Y'all should have had a wild borehole drilled yars ago.
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>> We make Tea from bottled water as it is so awful.
We can use the tap. We seem to be lucky then. ?
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>> Something I remember from my plumbing course - always do up / undo gate valves to their fullest extent then back off ¼ turn to prevent them seizing up.
>> Same with non-thermo radiator valves.
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Yes something I ALWAYs do.
This gate valve is normally open as in best practice.
I closed it, swopped the themo cartridge but when I tried to open it all seemed OK
Then I discovered the round handle was working but nowt happening.
I guess I was lucky the handle and its shaft did not pop out.
Something broke inside and now I have it in hand the valve is firmly closed --- most odd!
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I believe that most Plumbing fittings now are of such a poor quality. A mate who does most of our Plumbing says he recently bought 15mm pipe that was stamped as being 0.7mm thick (walls). He has some in stock at 1.2mm !!
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Plumbing. a minor woe. - madf
