Why doesn t my cold water work?

Lack of cold water is usually caused by a defective pressure-balancing valve in a cartridge. This part is located inside the shower faucet. So, are you feeling handy? With a few tools and some patience, you may be able to replace the valve cartridge on your own.

Is there hot and cold water in the upstairs bathroom?

Hi, I drained the house of water, then drained hot water tank and fitted a new immersion heater in the tank bottom. After turning all the taps back on, I have hot and cold downstairs and in the power shower upstairs. However, no cold water in the bathroom upstairs.. No toilet sink or bath. Everywhere else is fine.

How can I get cold water up the stairs?

Connect kitchen tap (usually mains) vis hosepipe to offending outlets and blow water up there. No more airlock. And if it were easy we’d all be plumbers Alternatively get a Pango or similar and shock it out from the tank, might work. (You must log in or sign up to reply here.)

What to do when your house has no water?

The best way to do it then is (with 2 people) to connect a length of hose between your mains kitchen cold tap and the tap where there is no cold water, open the one tap where there is no water then open the mains tap. This will force the air back up the pipe to the tank.

Is there a shower with no cold water?

There is no bath. They’ve got two thermo showers that run fine because they draw off a different cold outlet. The hot taps run ok. Not brilliant but I think they are min .5 bar taps.

Why is there no cold water in my upstairs toilet?

Go up and have a look. If the tank is full of water then check that no isolators are closed on the pipes from the tank. Maybe some polythene has fallen in and covered the pipework outlet. The toilets wouldn’t be off the cold water tank. Straight off the mains. So I suspect the taps are too for them all to fail at the same time.

How to get cold water to upstairs from cold water tank?

Do you have a hosepipe? stick it up the bath cold tap and turn on, keep it there for about 15 seconds, that should push the air out into the tank. If bath tap runs ok turn off and then open up basin tap if that works ok fine sorted. If not repeat process on basin tap. Good luck.

Why is there no cold water in my loft?

There may be an isolator which is closed that feeds the tank in the loft. Go up and have a look. If the tank is full of water then check that no isolators are closed on the pipes from the tank. Maybe some polythene has fallen in and covered the pipework outlet. The toilets wouldn’t be off the cold water tank. Straight off the mains.