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No Hot Water in Brownhills

Heating fine but no hot water in Brownhills? Usually the diverter valve, not the boiler. Clayhanger, Walsall Wood, Pelsall and Shire Oak.

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If the radiators are warm and the taps are not, the boiler is lighting and burning perfectly well — it is just sending the heat to the wrong place. On a combi that is the diverter valve. In the older Brownhills houses that still have a cylinder in the airing cupboard it is the motorised valve or the cylinder stat. Both are parts, and neither is a reason to be quoted for a new boiler.
What's involved

No Hot Water in Brownhills, done properly

The valve that chooses

A diverter stuck towards the heating side gives you this exact fault and nothing else. Replaced as a valve or a cartridge depending on the boiler.

Cylinder systems in the older stock

Airing cupboard, cylinder, a small motor on the pipework above it. When that motor or its thermostat fails you get warm rads and cold taps, and the boiler is blameless.

Scale, on hard water

The water here is hard. A scaled plate exchanger gives lukewarm water that fades to cold, which is a different fault from no hot water at all, and often a flush rather than a part.

Told before it is done

Which part, why, and what it costs, before the work starts rather than after.

Good to know

No Hot Water — your questions

Do I need to be without hot water for days?

No. Diverter valves and motorised valves are common parts and normally carried or got next day. It is a next-day job, not a week.

Is it worth repairing on an old boiler?

Usually. This particular fault does not say anything about the rest of the boiler. If age is genuinely the issue you should be told that separately, not sold it on the back of a cold tap.

How can I check the engineer is qualified?

Ask to see the Gas Safe ID card and look at the back, which lists what they are signed off to work on. It is a normal thing to ask and nobody genuine minds.

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