Luckily our tank is designed a bit more sensibly than the one in your
example and it can be all drained down and isolated enough to get the
element out without a completely empty cylinder. I am eternally amazed
though when you get the heater out how bent and encrusted it gets just
heating water. Brian

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In the final stages of completing the bathroom refurbishment. So connect
the tap and the waste drain, connected the two flexi hoses to the tap
and then just the hot to the incoming pipe, thought to test the tap was
ok ...turns it on and water starts ****in out the cold water flexi hose,
as the water was sputing out the tap I didnt realise it was going all
over the floor from the cold unattached flexi hose.

Ah well we live and learn.

Do they all do that I wonder? I thought there were rules about not
contaminating the mains cold water with the hot.

Going back to having water ****ing out all over the place...

I once had to change the immersion heater element in the *side* of my hot
water cylinder. This meant draining the header tank, disconnecting the
inlet and outlet pipes, walking the still full cylinder round to get at
the drain cock which was on the *back*, and emptying the cylinder through
a hosepipe.

When I took the immersion heater box spanner back to the hire shop, the
guy told me about a customer who had forgotten a) to let the tank cool
down, and b) to empty it of all the water (turning off the inlet or
emptying the header tank isn't enough). And so he unscrewed the element
and when it was held by the last thread, the pressure was too great for
the thread to hold it, so he was punched in the goolies by an immersion
heater element which shot out, propelled by a 4" "plug" of scalding hot
water - and once the element was out, there was no way to put it back in
again, so he had to wait for a hundred or so litres of hot water to run
through the house. That would have been one hell of an insurance claim...