crazyjoe_uk
Apr 4, 2011, 04:11 AM
Hi all,
Have just moved into a new house, which has a different water system to my previous house, and I'm trying to gauge what is normal behaviour of this new system. (total layman here I'm afraid). My old house had a smallish Potterton device in the kitchen, that was gas powered - when I turned on hot water, it would fire up, and we'd have hot water no problem, any time of day. Upstairs, in the airing cupboard, there was a bigger 'boiler' - I think it had two parts to it, a main chamber, then a smaller one directly stuck on top. There was no tank in the loft.
In the new house, I have a potterton device in the kitchen again, a 'boiler' in the airing cupboard, and then when I went into the loft, there were two other containers of water - they were both covered in black insulation (like black bags almost). One was small (about the size of a washing up bowl, and one was big (I read '50L' on it - assume that's 50 litre tank). There's a Danfoss CP715 control unit under the potterton, and the Hot Water was set to "ALL DAY" - my girlfriend took a bath, then put the washing machine on. I went to take a bath, and all was fine for a few minutes, then I noticed the running water had gone cold (through a mixer tap) - I turned off the cold water tap and there was no water running at all (even with the hot tap fully open) - does this sound normal? I would have thought if I was out of hot water, I'd still have cold water running through?
Can anyone give me a brief explanation of what could be wrong?
Have just moved into a new house, which has a different water system to my previous house, and I'm trying to gauge what is normal behaviour of this new system. (total layman here I'm afraid). My old house had a smallish Potterton device in the kitchen, that was gas powered - when I turned on hot water, it would fire up, and we'd have hot water no problem, any time of day. Upstairs, in the airing cupboard, there was a bigger 'boiler' - I think it had two parts to it, a main chamber, then a smaller one directly stuck on top. There was no tank in the loft.
In the new house, I have a potterton device in the kitchen again, a 'boiler' in the airing cupboard, and then when I went into the loft, there were two other containers of water - they were both covered in black insulation (like black bags almost). One was small (about the size of a washing up bowl, and one was big (I read '50L' on it - assume that's 50 litre tank). There's a Danfoss CP715 control unit under the potterton, and the Hot Water was set to "ALL DAY" - my girlfriend took a bath, then put the washing machine on. I went to take a bath, and all was fine for a few minutes, then I noticed the running water had gone cold (through a mixer tap) - I turned off the cold water tap and there was no water running at all (even with the hot tap fully open) - does this sound normal? I would have thought if I was out of hot water, I'd still have cold water running through?
Can anyone give me a brief explanation of what could be wrong?