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Stuck service valve
I am just replacing our bathroom and I need to get the old bath out.
All of the pipes in the bathroom have service valves (the 90degree on-off type). All move fine, except the bath ones. One almost turns off, but the other is stuck open. This one wont budge at all. I tried heating it up with a hot-air gun, but it still wouldn't budge. Any tips? The hot/cold feeds into the valves look to come direct from the tanks, so replacing the valves will mean draining them all. Sorry if this has come up before, but I've searched old posts and the FAQ and I can't find an answer! Regards Marc |
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You should have a tap or service valve on the output from both the cold
water and hot water tanks. have you looked closely? wrote: I am just replacing our bathroom and I need to get the old bath out. All of the pipes in the bathroom have service valves (the 90degree on-off type). All move fine, except the bath ones. One almost turns off, but the other is stuck open. This one wont budge at all. I tried heating it up with a hot-air gun, but it still wouldn't budge. Any tips? The hot/cold feeds into the valves look to come direct from the tanks, so replacing the valves will mean draining them all. Sorry if this has come up before, but I've searched old posts and the FAQ and I can't find an answer! Regards Marc |
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I've tried opening the valves with water running but there's no improvement. My hot water pipe comes out of the cylinder and then splits 3 ways. 2 pipes go to shower pumps and have stop-taps on them, but the other dissapears under the floor. The cold water storage tank has 4 outlet pipes. All of these are lagged, so I have guessed (maybe incorrectly) that there are no valves under the lagging. It's looking more and more like a system drain down :-( One last go on the valves with WD40... Marc |
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