Quite often if we have people staying and we all use the shower, of
which we have two (even the electric shower), or if I run a bath for my
children, the water upstairs seems to 'run out'. The taps downstairs
are working fully, hot and cold, it's just upstairs. Also, when we
have been on holiday for a couple of weeks, when we go to use the
shower for the first time, hardly a drip of water comes out.

Very weird. Does anyone know what's happening and if it's something
simple? Hopefully it won't be something expensive..........

"diynot" wrote in message
ups.com...
Quite often if we have people staying and we all use the shower, of
which we have two (even the electric shower), or if I run a bath for
my
children, the water upstairs seems to 'run out'. The taps
downstairs
are working fully, hot and cold, it's just upstairs. Also, when we
have been on holiday for a couple of weeks, when we go to use the
shower for the first time, hardly a drip of water comes out.

Very weird. Does anyone know what's happening and if it's something
simple? Hopefully it won't be something expensive..........


Capacity of main tank in loft too small - same happened here and it
was a right pain as an airlock would form on the outlet pipe. Fit a
second tank to increase capacity, but make the incoming water ball
valve feed the new tank which then has a pipe siameesing it to the
original. This way water flows through both tanks always and doesn't
get stagnant.

AWEM

Thanks Andrew, will look into this as it has been going on too long.
Rgds

Andrew Mawson wrote:
"diynot" wrote in message
ups.com...
Quite often if we have people staying and we all use the shower, of
which we have two (even the electric shower), or if I run a bath for
my
children, the water upstairs seems to 'run out'. The taps
downstairs
are working fully, hot and cold, it's just upstairs. Also, when we
have been on holiday for a couple of weeks, when we go to use the
shower for the first time, hardly a drip of water comes out.

Very weird. Does anyone know what's happening and if it's something
simple? Hopefully it won't be something expensive..........


Capacity of main tank in loft too small - same happened here and it
was a right pain as an airlock would form on the outlet pipe. Fit a
second tank to increase capacity, but make the incoming water ball
valve feed the new tank which then has a pipe siameesing it to the
original. This way water flows through both tanks always and doesn't
get stagnant.

AWEM