Why is my water hotter downstairs than upstairs?

If so it is fairly common for a faulty shower valve or mixer tap to allow cold water to flood the hot pipe work, in turn making the hot water seem cooler, this will affect outlets within close proximity to the cause of the fault.

How long does it take for shower water to get hot again?

WAIT TIME FOR HOT SHOWER If the previous shower lasted 15 minutes, you’re looking at about four minutes of hot water remaining. If you want to loll in your own 15-minute shower, you’ll need to wait 47 minutes before stepping in. (Gas units heat faster, so multiply by 1.9 instead of 4.3.)

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.

Which is better the bath or the sink tap?

The bath hot water tap is better, not as good as it should be but much better than the sink tap which is less than a metre away from it. We have a gravity fed system with a hot water tank in the loft but the hot water to the bathroom has always been poor.

Is there a hot water tank in the bathroom?

However, no cold water in the bathroom upstairs.. No toilet sink or bath. Everywhere else is fine. I got a huge plastic attic cold tank, and upstairs hot tank in an airing cupboard. There is ner’ a dribble of cold except the power shower. What is going on? Please? Mugsy Have you jumped up into the loft to check the tank has refilled?

Is the hot water from the sink as bad as the Cold?

There’s a mixer tap on the bath also and the hot water flow is weak compared to the cold water flow but it’s nowhere near as bad as the hot water from the sink tap that is right next to the bath and less than a metre away from it. Just double checked the flexible hoses on the sink and there’s defiantely no kinks in the them.

Is the kitchen tap run off the mains?

Sounds like you have what is know as an indirect system of cold water, where normally only the kitchen tap is run off the mains.

How much water does it take to run a bathtub?

Usually its a tank with one or two pipe’s coming out of it at the bottom. If the tank is quite big and looks as though it would hold about 270 litres (60 gallons) of water. Then the chances are it supplies both the cylinder for hot water and the cold to the bath, basin and wc.