Water issue in outhouse

[Sandeep89]

Hi,

I'm having an issue with water in my outhouse. I have a sink in the outhouse with a mixer tap and a undersink water heater.

There is a blue pipe going underground into the outhouse from the main house to supply water connection to the outhouse. For past few days the tap in the outhouse has stopped working however anytime a tap is opened in the main house the tap in the out house starts to work.

Any ideas what the issue could be?

 

[SJB060685]

Is there a pressure reducing valve on feed to outhouse? I imagine there is. If installed the wrong way around this could happen. Had the same on an old oil combi. I initially installed the PRV the wrong way around (the combi cold pressure needed to be reduced because the excessive pressure was eating seals). Only when dynamic pressure in the rest of the house dropped below PRV setting did I get flow to boiler.

 

[Sandeep89]

Is there a pressure reducing valve on feed to outhouse? I imagine there is. If installed the wrong way around this could happen. Had the same on an old oil combi. I initially installed the PRV the wrong way around (the combi cold pressure needed to be reduced because the excessive pressure was eating seals). Only when dynamic pressure in the rest of the house dropped below PRV setting did I get flow to boiler.

Hi,

There is a prv reducing valve which is connected on the incoming cold feed pipe in the outhouse which then is plumbed to the undersink water heater and cold tap.

I will have a look at it.

 

[SJB060685]

Hi,

There is a prv reducing valve which is connected on the incoming cold feed pipe in the outhouse which then is plumbed to the undersink water heater and cold tap.

I will have a look at it.

There will be a direction of flow arrow on the valve, this should coincide with the cold main flow.
It is possible the valve worked up until now but the incoming main pressure to a property can change at any given time, this is down to the waterboard and you have no control over it.

 

[Sandeep89]

There will be a direction of flow arrow on the valve, this should coincide with the cold main flow.
It is possible the valve worked up until now but the incoming main pressure to a property can change at any given time, this is down to the waterboard and you have no control over it.

Hi,

So we had a new water meter fitted few days ago and it started after this so may well be the flow direction has changed.


I will have a look tomorrow. Thanks for the help.

 

[snowhead]

Post up pictures of the water meter, stop taps, blue pipes etc in the house and pipes into the outhouse.