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I’ve been fitting a new shower and since attaching the new taps I’ve got no hot water.
I have an old system with a header tank in the loft and hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard. Shower water is fed via a pump.

All the taps that I shut off to work on the system have been opened again (cold water feed from deader tank to shower pump and hot water feed from cylinder to pump) but I’m not getting any hot water. I did also turn off mains water on the street, but I’m 100% certain the header tank didn’t run dry. The water runs for a few seconds and then stops. I’ve fed mains cold into the hot water pipes using a washing machine hose pipe in the kitchen sink and this pushed water all the way up to the header tank to the point that it overflowed, so I don’t think I have an air lock.

Knocking the cylinder, it sounds hollow (empty?). If I leave it for a while I get a few seconds of water from the hot taps and then it runs dry again.

Any advise or tips before I call out a plumber?

I have turned off the hot water (boiler) as I’m worried it could cause more damage if the tank is empty. Is that the right thing to do?
 
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Tell me about it. I tried until around 11pm last night. Eventually gave up and went to bed (all sweaty and dirty).
Woke up this morning, desperate for a bath and thought I'd give it another go now that it's been sat over night.

This time I left the cold water running into the hot for about a minute and during that time I went upstairs and opened all of the hot water taps until they were all flowing nicely. Worked first time.
I guess sometimes you just have to sleep on it :)

Now to fit the shower enclosure. Maybe this will go to plan
 
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Enclosures aren’t too bad IME, it’s the tray that causes most of the problems. Just don’t tighten any of the screen fixing screws till everything is in final position... walls are never, ever completely straight. :(
 
boogie man said:
Enclosures aren’t too bad IME, it’s the tray that causes most of the problems. Just don’t tighten any of the screen fixing screws till everything is in final position... walls are never, ever completely straight. :(
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My walls and floor were built by a couple of drunk nuns. It's taken me two weeks to get the shower tray down straight and to level the walls for fitting shower panels. Things are pretty plum now but my enclosure apparently has a system that can accomodate slightly off plum walls so that shouldn't be a problem.
 
ecoleman said:
My walls and floor were built by a couple of drunk nuns. It's taken me two weeks to get the shower tray down straight and to level the walls for fitting shower panels. Things are pretty plum now but my enclosure apparently has a system that can accomodate slightly off plum walls so that shouldn't be a problem.
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I think the majority of them are adjustable, you should be ok. Good luck anyway ;)
 
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