Hi everyone,

I have been scratching my head for most of the day.

Yesterday I installed a kitchen sink on the third floor of my apartment building/town house. Prior to doing any work I shut off the water to the entire house as there was no way to shut off the 3rd floor water supply only.

Today I learned that hot water is not coming to the 1st floor bathtub. The basement, 1st floor, and 2nd floor are all on one big boiler, or better to say two boilers where one's hot water exit pipe feeds the other's entrance pipe.

All of the hot waters, basement sink, 1sr floor kitchen and bathroom sink, and all of the second floor get hot water except the 1st floor bath tub/shower...

I have repeatedly checked all the supply lines and valves to find no reason why the water is not coming to the 1st floor bathtub/shower. It has its own supply line, every faucet/water source in the house is being fed separately from the basement where the water heaters are.

Any suggestions, ideas or guideline on how to proceed from here? I am stuck and do not know what to do.

I am only guessing one of the valves might not be opening up but I am not sure why would that be occurring and how would I do diagnostics for that?

Thanks. :confused:

I figured it out! :)

All the junk that was in the pipes was clogging up the faucets and the hot water shower/bathub handle/valve.

What a waste of a day!

Not a wasted day, look what you learned. Hope you put stop valves on the kitchen faucet.

(Just to add, all the junk in the pips clogged the faucets/valves once the water was turned back on and the pressure "pushed" all the debris. The building is >100 yrs old.)


I agree. A lot was learned today. It would have only been better if the problem solution had occurred to me a couple of hours earlier. Other things could have been given attention.

Yes, I have installed stop valves for my new sink(kitchen faucet), and I have them everywhere else except in the basement bathroom sink(one of the things learned today) but there are stop valves on each of the supply pipes(hot and cold) leading to the sink ~2 feet away in the back room housing the boilers and I find that not ideal but sufficient for now.

Thank you for the reminder.