Hello,

Am having issues with one of my hot taps for a while now, the water is
a little discoloured from it, and when I fill up a glass with water
from it, it contains a load of stringy looking algae/bacteria. The
water is a bit slimy too. The rest of the hot water is free of this,
although it is generally a tiny bit off coloured. I have tried running
the tap for a while, doesnt change things. Any suggestions?

None wrote:
Hello,

Am having issues with one of my hot taps for a while now, the water is
a little discoloured from it, and when I fill up a glass with water
from it, it contains a load of stringy looking algae/bacteria. The
water is a bit slimy too. The rest of the hot water is free of this,
although it is generally a tiny bit off coloured. I have tried running
the tap for a while, doesnt change things. Any suggestions?

where does you hot water come from? (i.e. combi boiler, hot water
cylinder etc).

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John.

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On 24 Mar, 03:29, John Rumm wrote:
None wrote:
Hello,

Am having issues with one of my hot taps for a while now, the water is
a little discoloured from it, and when I fill up a glass with water
from it, it contains a load of stringy looking algae/bacteria. The
water is a bit slimy too. The rest of the hot water is free of this,
although it is generally a tiny bit off coloured. I have tried running
the tap for a while, doesnt change things. Any suggestions?

where does you hot water come from? (i.e. combi boiler, hot water
cylinder etc).

--
Cheers,

John.

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hi there,

it comes from a hot water cylinder... and having run the upstairs hot
taps, it seems to also come from there too, particularly the bath. Any
ideas?

None wrote:

it comes from a hot water cylinder... and having run the upstairs hot
taps, it seems to also come from there too, particularly the bath. Any
ideas?

Get up in the loft and have a peer into the tank that supplies the cylinder,
to see if it's full of gunge.

Si

In message , "Mungo \"Two
Sheds\" Toadfoot" writes
None wrote:

it comes from a hot water cylinder... and having run the upstairs hot
taps, it seems to also come from there too, particularly the bath. Any
ideas?

Get up in the loft and have a peer into the tank that supplies the cylinder,
to see if it's full of gunge.

Or worse. I could recount my story about the decomposed drowned rat in
the header tank but not this close to tea time eh?

PS.
It may be a good idea not to come in contact with the water
until you know what is causing it. Stick with the cold tap in the
kitchen, this should be high pressure mains and not via any of your own
storage.


Ugh!!!
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Bill

Bill wrote:

Ugh!!!

I'm so trying not to follow this thread. It has an unanwered question.
Has any of this water been bathed in / drunk?

Please, I don't want to know... I want to enjoy my dinner...

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Adrian C

On 24 Mar, 15:20, Adrian C wrote:
Bill wrote:

Ugh!!!

I'm so trying not to follow this thread. It has an unanwered question.
Has any of this water been bathed in / drunk?

Please, I don't want to know... I want to enjoy my dinner...

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Adrian C

I cleaned the attic tank about six months ago, there is a layer of
brown sediment at the very bottom, this is naturally occurring I am
led to believe. But the hot water cylinder cannot be cleaned/
sterilised like this... Ive been told that I should get a plumber to
siphon out the contents and disconnect it to see what is inside, and
then sterilise it with Fernox Sterox.

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:15:26 -0700 (PDT), None
wrote:

Any suggestions?

What temperature is the tank thermostat set to?

On 24 Mar, 15:54, Peter Parry wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:15:26 -0700 (PDT), None
wrote:

Any suggestions?

What temperature is the tank thermostat set to?

We dont have a thermostat, just a bath/sink option. The bath option
heats more water than the sink one obviously. It can get very hot, I
just don't know how hot. The cylinder has only been installed two
years.

None wrote:

it comes from a hot water cylinder... and having run the upstairs hot
taps, it seems to also come from there too, particularly the bath. Any
ideas?

I would go and have a look in your cold water tank and see what if
anything is floating in there for starters!

Also do you have any dead legs of old pipework that rise somewhere but
have then been capped off? This can be a nice breading ground of
stagnant water.

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John.

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None wrote:
On 24 Mar, 15:54, Peter Parry wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:15:26 -0700 (PDT), None
wrote:

Any suggestions?
What temperature is the tank thermostat set to?

We dont have a thermostat, just a bath/sink option. The bath option
heats more water than the sink one obviously. It can get very hot, I
just don't know how hot. The cylinder has only been installed two
years.

I take it this is heated by an electric immersion heater then? If so you
can find the temperature on the immersion stat - this is often under a
disc on the top of the heater. You normally need to remove a small screw
to take the disc off and reveal the stat. Make sure it is set to 65 deg
C or hotter to make sure you kill anything unwanted.

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John.

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On 24 Mar, 17:08, John Rumm wrote:
None wrote:
On 24 Mar, 15:54, Peter Parry wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:15:26 -0700 (PDT), None
wrote:

Any suggestions?
What temperature is the tank thermostat set to?

We dont have a thermostat, just a bath/sink option. The bath option
heats more water than the sink one obviously. It can get very hot, I
just don't know how hot. The cylinder has only been installed two
years.

I take it this is heated by an electric immersion heater then? If so you
can find the temperature on the immersion stat - this is often under a
disc on the top of the heater. You normally need to remove a small screw
to take the disc off and reveal the stat. Make sure it is set to 65 deg
C or hotter to make sure you kill anything unwanted.

--
Cheers,

John.

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hiya john... yeah, i see the screw and cover (with Therm on the top,
silly me) , but its tiny, and i dont know what will fit around it to
remove it...

On 24 Mar, 17:35, None wrote:
On 24 Mar, 17:08, John Rumm wrote:



None wrote:
On 24 Mar, 15:54, Peter Parry wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:15:26 -0700 (PDT), None
wrote:

Any suggestions?
What temperature is the tank thermostat set to?

We dont have a thermostat, just a bath/sink option. The bath option
heats more water than the sink one obviously. It can get very hot, I
just don't know how hot. The cylinder has only been installed two
years.

I take it this is heated by an electric immersion heater then? If so you
can find the temperature on the immersion stat - this is often under a
disc on the top of the heater. You normally need to remove a small screw
to take the disc off and reveal the stat. Make sure it is set to 65 deg
C or hotter to make sure you kill anything unwanted.

--
Cheers,

John.

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hiya john... yeah, i see the screw and cover (with Therm on the top,
silly me) , but its tiny, and i dont know what will fit around it to
remove it...

I have just unscrewed it, but there is no immersion stat underneath,
so I dont know whats going on..

None wrote:

hiya john... yeah, i see the screw and cover (with Therm on the top,
silly me) , but its tiny, and i dont know what will fit around it to
remove it...

I have just unscrewed it, but there is no immersion stat underneath,
so I dont know whats going on..

There is usually a little pointer type device there to set the temp. It
may be you have a fixed temp immersion, in which case one would expect
it to be high enough.

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John.

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On 24 Mar, 22:44, John Rumm wrote:
None wrote:
hiya john... yeah, i see the screw and cover (with Therm on the top,
silly me) , but its tiny, and i dont know what will fit around it to
remove it...

I have just unscrewed it, but there is no immersion stat underneath,
so I dont know whats going on..

There is usually a little pointer type device there to set the temp. It
may be you have a fixed temp immersion, in which case one would expect
it to be high enough.

--
Cheers,

John.

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Well, it gets very hot indeed if left on for an hour or two, but we
havent used it very much at all in the last 4-5 months, relying on
central heating to heat the water. I put on the immersion for a couple
of hours today to see if it would help, and there is hardly any of
that organic material coming from the taps now... much better. I
wonder why this happens though?

In message
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None writes
Well, it gets very hot indeed if left on for an hour or two, but we
havent used it very much at all in the last 4-5 months, relying on
central heating to heat the water. I put on the immersion for a couple
of hours today to see if it would help, and there is hardly any of
that organic material coming from the taps now... much better. I
wonder why this happens though?


A bit worrying that it "gets very hot indeed"

Does anything here look familiar??

http://www.diydata.com/problem/immer...on_heaters.php


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Bill

None wrote:

Well, it gets very hot indeed if left on for an hour or two, but we
havent used it very much at all in the last 4-5 months, relying on
central heating to heat the water. I put on the immersion for a couple

Ah, ok you have an indirect cylinder with heat input form the boiler as
well. In which case is there a cylinder stat strapped on to the cylinder
somewhere? You might want to check the boiler is getting the tank hot
enough.



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On 25 Mar, 02:09, John Rumm wrote:
None wrote:
Well, it gets very hot indeed if left on for an hour or two, but we
havent used it very much at all in the last 4-5 months, relying on
central heating to heat the water. I put on the immersion for a couple

Ah, ok you have an indirect cylinder with heat input form the boiler as
well. In which case is there a cylinder stat strapped on to the cylinder
somewhere? You might want to check the boiler is getting the tank hot
enough.

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John.

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Would the boiler have a temperature reading? Im at work, so cant
check... also, should hot water be always maintained at or above 65
deg? Is that even doable?

None wrote:

Would the boiler have a temperature reading? Im at work, so cant
check... also, should hot water be always maintained at or above 65
deg? Is that even doable?

The boiler may well have a temperature control for its primary water
circuit. The cylinder will normally also have a thermostat that controls
when heating for the cylinder is demanded. There is often a programmer
involved somewhere as well that would also need to call for heat for the
boiler to fire and reheat the cylinder.

You want the cylinder to get to at least 65 at some point each day to
ensure that any bacteria in it are killed.

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John.

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On 25 Mar, 17:13, John Rumm wrote:
None wrote:
Would the boiler have a temperature reading? Im at work, so cant
check... also, should hot water be always maintained at or above 65
deg? Is that even doable?

The boiler may well have a temperature control for its primary water
circuit. The cylinder will normally also have a thermostat that controls
when heating for the cylinder is demanded. There is often a programmer
involved somewhere as well that would also need to call for heat for the
boiler to fire and reheat the cylinder.

You want the cylinder to get to at least 65 at some point each day to
ensure that any bacteria in it are killed.

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Cheers,

John.

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Just checked the hot water again, still seem to be getting some
greenish feathery bacteria in there, I wonder if I should use some
bleach in the system to have more drastic effect...