This happen before, a year ago. Water in my bath tub just stopped running, like someone cut the cold line.
I found googling that it is maybe airlock problem and what I need to do to "unlock" it. Advise was to open both cold and hot water in the bath tub and with the hand palm press tap to close water exit at it and push the running line to not running line and it worked.
Now, after a year or so, problem is back, and it affected first bath tub cold line and sink tap hot line. Tomorrow, sink lost hot water line as well. Now out of 4 lines I have working just a tub hot one, sink is completely dead with 0 water running.
It never happen with the toilet flush and the shower, because it is in line with the manifolds both hot and cold. But as you can see at the photos, both affected lines are those that are routed below the floor and up making "U" shape. On the sink side, there is a spot that are possibly problematic and guess there is a problem, but on the bath tub side, there is a clear "U" shape without distortion (or I cant see it?!) and there is a problem as well.
I dont know how air came in the system, guess from the supplier, but fact is that previously I have solved the problem with no physically touch the system.
Anyhow, I have tried to push the water through it by running hose from the shower. I have closed the manifold valve for the hot water and tried to push the cold water (which is not closed) through the hot line on the sink in opposite direction without success. During the procedure I have released the end lock on the hot manifold and there I could hear some air running out, but other than that nothing. I have tried to release it more and less, in the same time to open hot water valve at the manifold, but nothing happen. I have tried opposite way with the hot water running through the cold pipe, with no success.
Now, I am stucked and out of ideas. I would greatly appreciate any suggestion and any tip how to fix this problem.
I found googling that it is maybe airlock problem and what I need to do to "unlock" it. Advise was to open both cold and hot water in the bath tub and with the hand palm press tap to close water exit at it and push the running line to not running line and it worked.
Now, after a year or so, problem is back, and it affected first bath tub cold line and sink tap hot line. Tomorrow, sink lost hot water line as well. Now out of 4 lines I have working just a tub hot one, sink is completely dead with 0 water running.
It never happen with the toilet flush and the shower, because it is in line with the manifolds both hot and cold. But as you can see at the photos, both affected lines are those that are routed below the floor and up making "U" shape. On the sink side, there is a spot that are possibly problematic and guess there is a problem, but on the bath tub side, there is a clear "U" shape without distortion (or I cant see it?!) and there is a problem as well.
I dont know how air came in the system, guess from the supplier, but fact is that previously I have solved the problem with no physically touch the system.
Anyhow, I have tried to push the water through it by running hose from the shower. I have closed the manifold valve for the hot water and tried to push the cold water (which is not closed) through the hot line on the sink in opposite direction without success. During the procedure I have released the end lock on the hot manifold and there I could hear some air running out, but other than that nothing. I have tried to release it more and less, in the same time to open hot water valve at the manifold, but nothing happen. I have tried opposite way with the hot water running through the cold pipe, with no success.
Now, I am stucked and out of ideas. I would greatly appreciate any suggestion and any tip how to fix this problem.
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