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Anonymous Posted on Jan 29, 2011

Hi, we have no water coming out of ours taps, in the kitchen=no cold at and a small slow dribble coming out the hot which is cold.The bathroom= small dribble of out of cold tap and small dribble out of hot tap which is cold. The other flat is the same, we live upstairs, the flat downstairs is empty. The central heating is on and is very hot, this has been giving us problems lately by turning off after an hour or so, and has to switched on again, but since the water has gone off/dribble the heating has stayed on. Do you think it is to do with the heating?, or have we been cut off, we dont have meter, landlord pays the bill. Although we just changed landlords, I dont know if perhaps they havnt paid bill, could it be this, but if so why do we get a small flow/dribble out of tap still?. Perhaps there is a leak in the mains to the house thats why the pressure/flow has virtually stopped?. The landlord sent round a man to look but he said he dont know whats wrong and cant get back until Monday(it was a Friday he came), so I have to go with no water all weekend!, we got kids too me and my neighbour, cant get no sense out of the landlord and today (Saturday) they not answer phone at all. Also could it be the stop tap outside in the street as the road workers may have used it to get water from but the man checked it and said it was turned on, could he be wrong, perhaps the road workers have turned it off by mistake, just noting all possibilities that I can think off myself. Do you have any ideas or advice please as I need to get a good water flow back so I can shower, wash up, clean my fish etc etc. Many thanks, this is really doing my head in now.

  • Anonymous Feb 16, 2011

    hi, me again, finally sorted the problem of no water in my flat out of the taps!, when I noticed my water had first gone off was when the council were outside tarmacing the pavement, and it turned out that it was one of the guys going over the water tap/meter box on the path outside my flat with a roller, they had damaged the pipe inside the box causing it to split and burst, so all the water was tracking back along the outside of the pipe and filled up the bottom cavity under the floorboards in the ground floor flat, we wasn't getting any water upstairs to our flats as there was no pressure and the water was all leaking out the broken pipe. And to think the maitenance man ripped the flat below me to bits trying to find the leak and I spent a total of 12 days with no water!. I had phoned the water company on the second day but they said there was nothing they could do, we wasnt sure where the leak was coming from at the time, but luckily I decided to phone them again after 11 days as I was getting no where with my landlord sorting it out, and the water company sent a man round within an hour, and the water stoptap/meter was dug up and replaced the next day.

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Water sounds like it is off at the mains which could be in the flat below , need access to there to check, or it been cut off for non payment , heater would not stop main flow , it is off at the main

best I can tell you ,

  • Anonymous Feb 02, 2011

    hi mate, yeh I finally found out what the problem was, it was a burst pipe in the empty flat below me, under the floorboards. When I looked around the rear of my property I live in the water was pouring out of a hole in the brick work. It has now been like this for six days, the water is now coming out the front of the building too!. Finally I managed to get the landlord to break into the downstairs flat, as they said that they were unable to find the key all this time!, what a joke, why didnt they just break the lock in the first place, it was only a yale lock. So the man is in the flat now, hopefully he will be able to fix the leaking pipe, but from the trouble I have been having with them I wont bank on it just yet!. Thanks for the first reply, it was good to talk to someone at the time, even if you wasnt to know the cause, which from my situation at the time you wouldnt have known. Thanks to Fixya.

  • Paul Carew Feb 02, 2011

    wow some leak if this flat below is empty then some heat in there would stop this going again , also the landlord is going have to dry the place out or it will stink of wet water , and that is bad , thanks for you comment nice to know how these things turn out , I answer stuff on here not many come back , thanks

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