wrote:

Water flows freely from the loft down the pipe to the airing cupboard
where there is a gate valve and the blockage is somewhere between the
gate valve and the bath. I know this because I have taken the gate
valve apart and the water is running up to that point and I have
taken the tap apart and there is no water going to it.

Which side of the gate valve did you take appart?

I ask because these things have a habit of failing in just this way -
the spindle breaks inside and they appear to open, but nothing gets
through becasue the gate is no longer attached to the tap!




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Cheers,

John.

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