Removed Water Softener, no Hot water?

[Asdeane]

New to the forum and hoping that someone can help with this problem.

I've removed a water softener to run new pipework for kitchen remodelling and drained down system after closing cold water feed.

I've not put back the softener and just isolated 2 cold feeds and a hot feed and once done opened up the cold feed, cold water okay on both the cold feeds but no hot water on the feed.

Climbed into loft, header tank remains empty??

Can anyone offer some advise?

Thanks in anticipation.
Tony

 

[Timmy D]

Have you got pics of what you turned off/on, softener pipe work?

I assume that the kitchen sink was plumbed in separate to the softener to provide unsoftened water to drink.

The rest of the house (loft tank) was fed from the softener. Is there not a bypass valve on the softener pipework? This would allow water into the softener outlet pipework (rest of house), when the softener is isolated/disconnected.

If no bypass, you need to connect the softener inlet to outlet pipework and open valves.

 

[snowhead]

Is there bypass pipework with a valve in place around the softener and if so is the valve opened up?

 

[exedon2]

As you have removed the water softener I take it you have opened bypass ?
Maybe a clear picture?

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Stuck/failed float valve?

 

[Asdeane]

Have you got pics of what you turned off/on, softener pipe work?

I assume that the kitchen sink was plumbed in separate to the softener to provide unsoftened water to drink.

The rest of the house (loft tank) was fed from the softener. Is there not a bypass valve on the softener pipework? This would allow water into the softener outlet pipework (rest of house), when the softener is isolated/disconnected.

If no bypass, you need to connect the softener inlet to outlet pipework and open valves.

Hi Timmy thanks for reply, pic attached. In short, have 3 feeds running down into kitchen, Cold, Hot and Cold. Removed hot feed to Basin tap, removed Cold from Basin tap and fitted isolation valves to both for working in afterwards. The softener was connected to third Cold feed and fed in and out and from what I see back into the cold feed. So I've basically disconnected the loop but assumed wrongly I guess that Isolating would be fine and that third Cold water feed could be isolated as not needed given I've removed the softener?? I can send more details in morning if that helps. Thanks again, I'm baffled but guess that's because I'm not a plumber.

 

[exedon2]

Looks like you need loop colds together to get feed back on.
Softener probably not installed correctly from start.

 

[Timmy D]

Looks like you need loop colds together to get feed back on.
Softener probably not installed correctly from start.

As exedon says, you need to loop the Softner supply/discharge.

 

[Asdeane]

As exedon says, you need to loop the Softner supply/discharge.

Thanks for all the help, as you have said it needed a loop. Problem solved and I'm feeling relieved..

 

[Timmy D]

Thanks for all the help, as you have said it needed a loop. Problem solved and I'm feeling relieved..

Good job.