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No Hot Water in Tipton

No hot water but the radiators are warm? In Tipton that is usually a diverter valve, not a new boiler. Same-day diagnosis across Great Bridge, Princes End and Ocker Hill.

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Heating on, radiators hot, and nothing but cold at the taps. It is one of the most common calls we get in Tipton and it almost always has the same cause: the diverter valve, the part that decides whether the heat goes to the radiators or the hot water. When it sticks it usually sticks towards the heating, which is exactly the symptom people describe.
What's involved

No Hot Water in Tipton, done properly

A stuck diverter, nine times in ten

On a combi it is the single commonest cause of this exact fault. The valve or its cartridge gets changed; the boiler does not.

Cylinder systems fail differently

Plenty of Tipton houses still run a cylinder in the airing cupboard. There the same symptom points at the motorised valve on the pipework or its thermostat, not at the boiler at all.

Checked before anything is quoted

The fault gets confirmed on the boiler rather than assumed from the description on the phone. You get told which part and what it costs before a spanner comes out.

What it is not

It is not a reason to be sold a new boiler. If somebody leads with a replacement quote for cold taps and warm radiators, get a second opinion.

Good to know

No Hot Water — your questions

Is this an emergency?

Not usually — you have heating, which is the part that matters in January. It is a next-day job rather than a middle-of-the-night one, and pricing it as an emergency would be sharp practice.

The hot water runs warm, then goes cold — same thing?

Different fault, same family. That is normally a scaled plate heat exchanger, and the water round here is hard enough that it happens. It can often be flushed rather than replaced.

How do I know the engineer is qualified?

Ask to see the Gas Safe ID card on the doorstep and check the back of it — it lists what that person is signed off to work on. Any genuine engineer expects to be asked.

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