On Mar 1, 6:29 pm, JimK wrote:
On Mar 1, 5:07 pm, None wrote:



On 1 Mar, 17:01, Chris J Dixon wrote:

None wrote:
We've had issues for ages now with our water supply. The mains supply
itself contains sediment, but the hot supply is giving us problems we
are baffled by.

The worst problem is when more than one hot tap is opened and demand
is higher around the house. What happens is that fairly large
particles, which I can only describe as being similar in appearance to
snots (no joke!) flow out with the water. I've been wondering for a
good while as to what the hell this stuff can be. You don't really see
it with just one tap opened, or demand being lower, but its an
unpleasant thing to have in your supply right?

I've talked to plumbers, they don't want to know really (because I
presume they have no clue how such crap could form in the hot water
cylinder). Live in Dublin btw, and never seen this in any house but
mine. Would appreciate input, cheers.

Do you have a header tank? If so, have a look in it.

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

There is some sediment on the bottom of the tank, I clean and
disinfect it every year. This problem with the hot tap has always been
there though..

Is it a private supply?
we had something similar a few years ago, lots of sediment in the
header tank - since removed for new system - I suspect the snots were
hot water dwelling "fungi" or equivalent lurking in the hot water
cylinder.

JimK

sorry for double post :~)(

with the bleach thing you could probly calculate the likely
time/"number of cylinders worth of water" to dilute however much
bleach you put in down to "nothing".

Size of cylinder + level of water in header tank + rough guesstimate
of length of pipework involved = total amount to treat then factor
down (using bleach instructions/ideas from on here) how much bleach to
put in header tank to treat, how much to draw off to get it into
cylinder, how long to leave, how long to dilute down and drain out??

Cheers
JimK