Unblock an airlock in the hot water system in ten seconds - no tools needed. (See disclaimer below.)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Please note that any action taken as a result of watching this video clip will be at your own risk. I am not a qualified plumber (just a frustrated consumer) and can only advise that this worked on my own UK vented water system.
After years of undoing the highest point to let air escape when I get my bathroom hot tap go down to a dribble, I tried this. 5 seconds! Turned the bathroom hot tap on-only a dribble coming out. Held thumb over mixer in kitchen, turned hot on, slowly turned cold on, heard gush from bathroom tap, sorted! Great advice, thank you!
Worked straight away, brilliant, thank you. My mate was coming round in the morning with hoses and lots of gear to cure it. He was stunned to hear I fixed it in two minutes. You are a star.
Our power went out this am. When the power came back on, the hot H2O sputtered. I used this method to clear the line. I know Jesus put me to your channel and told me to give her a go. So from the back of the house to the front of the house. It worked great. I'm a disabled widow and tight budget. I just wanted to Thank You so very much and bless you. You were a life saver
You're a bloody saint. 4 days with no cold water has now come to an end.
After messing around for hours, following your advice I removed the air lock in about a minute. Thanks a million for the tip, you're a star!
Brilliant. Had a plumber over years ago who tried to clear an airlock. He spent hours to no avail, and did not know about this trick. Today I had to empty the cold water tank, and of course got airlocks all over. Tried this trick and everything was working again within a few seconds. BRILLIANT!
Thanks so much for this video. It fixed my problem in 30s. I had 2 plumbing companies out and they couldn't fix my problem. I watched this and done it myself.
Thank you so much. Not only did this work first time, but my husband had spent 3 hours trying to fix it and now I can be smug that I fixed it in 10 seconds.
Thank you so much! You are a genius!!! This should be one of the first solutions to come up from all these "plumbing experts". Found your video after contemplating pipes and trying to understand what was wrong. Was becoming desperate and thought I had to buy a whole new system. Tried your trick, 2 times * 20/30ish seconds on the main mixer kitchen tap. Worked perfectly!!! No more issues with the hot water! Can't thank you enough!
Worked perfectly. Just replaced my hot water heater and was baffled at no water pressure in the kitchen sink. Thought my wife would be happy with the new water heater. Nope. She was pissed at no water pressure in the sink. Found your video and 10 seconds later had water. She is now very happy!! Thank you.
Thank you so very much, I'm an international student living in accommodation and was so so worried about running out of water and didn't know what to do... This video got the water running back within seconds!!! Thank goodness!!!
I can't tell you enough, how this just made my day! Worked after 3 20 second purges on our big old farm house. Top trick!
Than you very much Mark. I had a recurring airlock which effected two wash hand basins and a bath. The cold water supply was reduced to a trickle. I got similar advice from a helpful UA-camr five years ago and this 77 year old was grateful that you could refresh his memory on the best solution.
Perfect, spent an hour playing with a hose, literally one minute doing this and my kitchen tap, bathroom tap and bath have water again. Saved me 80 euro calling out a plumber (again as I live in an old house), thanks!!!!!
One of the most useful videos ever. It worked in a few minutes - even with an old fashioned mixer tap.
No hot water out of any hot water taps. Zilch, nada, zero. Used your method, and after hearing a very large bubbling sound from the upstairs tank, hot water flowed copiously again from all our hot taps. A very big thank you sir. You are a star!
Thank you sir i m from pakistan n was faceing dificulty from cold water, cant come hot water but now i m v happy to follow urs v nice video n my tap is now flash Hot Waterrrrrrrr.
Just did this after watching this video!! i have 2 separate taps in my kitchen, the hot water taps not worked in months turned on both put my thumbs under them and turned them both off, then hot back on and it worked!! I am still in shock that i did it myself thank you!!
Cheers Mark. I've tried it and it worked perfectly. Had no water at all upstairs. Tried it on downstairs tap and now I don't only have hot water back but water is back in the whole house😉Nice one.
This just worked on my electric shower that suddenly stopped working, I thought it might be the pump. I done this trick with my bathroom taps and my shower came back on! Thanks so much for your no nonsense video. I can now cancel the plumber. Fantastic.
Mark, you just saved my student house a lot of money- if you’re ever in Surrey, beers are on us
The water pressure for the hot water tap in the bathroom was low to non-existent. The water pressure for the hot water tap in the kitchen downstairs was fine. This method still worked and restored the water pressure in the bathroom when applied to the kitchen tap. The central heating worked fine, but would reduce the pressure in the bathroom when turned on. Thank you very much, keep up the good work.
You absolute legend. This is maybe the 4th video I've ever commented on to say thanks, because most are useless or go on for ages about nothing.
You just got my hot water tap going again with the easiest fix ever. Thanks!! Truly.
I have one mixer on a low pressure geyser that needs this about once in every month. Sometimes all I need to do is open hot and cold at the same time.
Thanks a million! After fixing a water leak only 1/4 of upstairs cold water supplies were working. Your trick helped me easily solve the problem!
You're awesome. No water was coming out of any of my hot taps. Now water is! Thank you so much. I could not afford to get a plumber here.
Wow! This really did work,I was about to get a plumber !
I did it for about 40 seconds and it took about 4 or 5 goes.
Cured !
Thanks
Woke up early morning, no hot water home! Hey Mark - you are an angel, man!! Your trick worked awesomely!! Thank you!
Well done Mark , had no hot water last night so put your theory into practice and within 10 seconds was all back to normal
After losing my hot bath water, in absolute despair, stripping down taps and cartridges and contemplating getting a whole new system anyway, I came across this. Fixed it with two long good blasts for about 20 seconds each time. Simply amazing, cant thank you enough, and I cant believe this isnt a first suggestion from all these internet "experts". Thanks again!
This is the best advice ever - just make sure you get someone else to do it as you get soaked but really works! Thank you :)
Let me start by saying that you sir are a lifesaver, just fitted a new mixer tap in my kitchen and had to drain the tank for the hot water, turned the water back on and a trickle from the hot taps, the cold water tank in the loft was not filling the hot water tank so you have saved me time and money with this magic workaround 👍thanks again and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Absolutely works - use the palm of your hand if your fingers are too small or too weak. Can also be done upstairs in the bathroom if mixer taps are there 👍🏼
Brilliant. I was going to buy hoses and connectors but gave this a try. Gently turned the cold feed up to full and counted to 10. Switched off the cold, removed my thumb and hey presto, everything is working fine. Thank you.
This was brilliant video and advice- straightforward and clear. Unblocked my airlock just as quickly as shown in this video. Many thanks!
Hi Mark, you're a star 🌟 I have had no hot water waited all day for a plumber to call. Searching UA-cam found your video and eureka I'm sorted. Nothing like learning from others and doing it yourself. Big thanks for your help 🙏😁👌
What a brilliant solution. It worked with a mixer tap with one control for both hot and cold water by putting the leaver a little towards the hot side and turning it on. It cleared the airlock in about 15 seconds.
This worked for me... cheers!
Yep, worked a treat. Some hot water coming from kitchen mixer, but hardly any hot upstairs. Worked second attempt, needs enough pressure that you can manage to hold with your hand (used thumb palm for a better seal). Careful not to spray hot water in your face initially. Thanks; really saved my evening!
Thanks Mark. That worked perfectly and literally it took few seconds. No plumber needed. Great work.
Mark you made my night, I had that issue in both faucets , your theory worked perfectly!! THANK YOU!!!! David 😉
Brilliant! After trying 100 different things with no luck I turned to UA-cam and thanks to you I now know the fastest and, more importantly, most effective way to get rid of air locks in my hot water system. (My kitchen tap has two separate pipes (hot and cold) inside the tap, but the trick worked very well all the same).
Thanks Mark, worked a treat.
Also, I did the reverse of this to clear airlock in bathroom *cold* taps using the bath mixer tap. Hero!
I never comment on videos but I literally cannot believe how well this works!!! I was going to call out a plumber, I literally don’t do any DIY and managed to fix this in under a minute hahaha!! Bring on a nice hot bath tonight! 🎉🎉
My father in-law's shower had an airlock ... he is 79 years old... he paid €120 for a call out last time it happened.... I did this upstairs in the sink... an BOOM.... he is singing in the shower as I write this....
Thanking you 👍
I've just fitted a new kitchen, and the hot was so slow, I was sure it was air in the system and was thinking it about the old hose from cold to hot. Just tried your way and hey presto it's fixed, so simple, thanks a million Mark.
Fantastic worked for me, my hot water system bangs and clatters when ever I ran the hot water upstairs or down. Now I can run hot water without sound effects! Thank you.
This was very helpful!! Thank you so much. I also "googled" how to fix thus and found the same kind of unhelpful videos you spoke about.. our water has been giving us problems for awhile, well turns out we actually have a pipe (pvc) thats either cracked or broke the bond where it's been replaced before and it is literally less than 1/4 below the adapter so I believe we're gonna have to replace the hose and all as it is the cold water side of our shower .. our water will just stop running and we would have to go outside and turn on the outside hydrant.. it's just been getting worse and worse but your simple hack worked even with all that going on! 5 thumbs 👍👍👍👍👍.. awesome..
Awesome thank you! It worked a treat with our shower mixer. Air block was cleared in about 20 seconds.
7 years later!! Thank you so much❤
Nothing else worked until I saw your post.....worked a treat, thank you 👍
Thank you so much this was such an amazing help, I live on my own, and can't afford to get a plumber out, this had been a problem for a few days, and was worrying about it, you've saved me a lot of stress and a fair amount of money thank you, thank you, thank you!! Xx
Thanks a million after draining the cold tank to add some isolated valves I had an airlock no amount of sucking through a pipe would shift it this worked first time thanks 😊👍
Worked great. Many thanks. I don't understand why everyone else seems to put up much more complicated solutions....so easy.
So great idea 😳😳😳
Im tried and it works, mama mia how life so easy sometimes 😭😭😭😭
Im so Happy 🥳
Respect to you my dear friend 👍🤝👏
Absolutely brilliant tip thank you. Just tried this and it worked.
Just an added thought. After first attempt it didn't work but then I let the water come out the overflow and that worked.
Thanks again
It worked!!!! Thanks I just saved €100 for a plumber.
Tried this today and worked like a charm.....Thank you so much for the info!
Fantastic! Thank you so much - plumbers are difficult to find where I live so was getting desperate. As a last chance I tried UA-cam and voila! with your clear instructions the hot water was back within five minutes.
Just watched this and my problem was the cold upstairs tap. It worked perfectly in just a few second many thanks Dave
Brilliant advice 👍👍.I've just done what you said and the water was back to how it should be in no time at all ..thank you
Thanks for this. Worked a treat on the bathroom mixer, but not the kitchen, so its worth persevering.
Great solution, worked first time and so simple compared to the other suggestions
New immersion tank fitted. This is the second time I’ve had an air lock for n three weeks.
I was thought something similar by plumber but this has worked a treat. Thanks.
Wow Mark, God bless you! You saved me from a lot of trouble! Thank you! Great video!!!
Thank you, thank you ... tried everything , including some other UA-cam suggestions which were either too complicated or difficult to understand. This was so simple... it just worked. Relieved and grateful.
You are a legend. Worked like a dream in less than 5 mins. Missus happy and I’m a hero!!!!
Thank you so much!! After 3 days of no bath water,I did it!!!
i don't really comment on videos but this was just to the point. amazing fixed my hot water in 10 second.
Thank you so much, this has saved me a call to the plumber. At first I didn’t think it would work, but it actually did.
One of the better DIY vids on YT for understanding and fixing an airlock. I also recommend 'What is air lock?' on the Practical Engineering channel for helping to visualise exactly what's going on in the pipe. My air lock was in the bathroom tank system, the tap is one of those annoying ones you can't block off easily except with a serious seal and my lock was in the cold water, not hot. Still, using these ideas I was inspired to mostly block off the tap by squeezing hard with a wadded up rubber glove and then flood back the bathroom coldwater pipe with the house hot water (reverse to this vid). I think it was important that my toilet cistern (also airlocked) was full, because otherwise the backed up tapwater dribbles into the cistern which is opened by the lowered ballcock, reducing the pressure you need to get the air out. Thanks for the ideas!
Amazing, was fretting with my airlocked system and tried this....it really worked top man thanks dude.
Beautiful! Worked! Did it on an upstairs shower mixer as that’s the only place there was a dribble problem, just put it half way between hot/cold. Thanks a lot!
Hi Mark, I was close to paying a plumber as always stupid money as I thought I'd explored and discounted every avenue. But after trying your method my taps are now running just fine and such a simple but effective solution - brilliant mate. Thnx
Absolutely top tip 👍 I was pulling my hair out for the last couple of hours then saw your video!!!!! Thanks for saving the day 😀
This is great. Saved a plumber's visit or a trip to the DIY store.
Absolute legend. Saved me a call out. Can’t believe how easy it was. 😂
Thank you so much for that hack . You have just saved me a long day trying to sort this out . Brilliant
Many thanks; you've saved me a bundle of money. I was on the verge of phoning a plumber and did the simple mixer tap process, TBH, not believing it would work, however, it DID!!!! :)
Thank you Mark, after looking for several hours on UA-cam (with no luck), came across your video and it work first time.
Greater pressure from mains indicates an unbalanced water pressure system. In which case I would open both taps then block the spout. Similar results but you should look at placing a pressure valve at the main water entrance to your
house . Good video. Nice.
Brilliant! Worked in 20 seconds - after about 15 heard distant bubbling sound, then everything back to normal
I got small thumbs. I tried this and the water burst right in my eye :P
update: I tried it upstairs sink, and the hot water is now fully open, thank you! this worked like a charm!
Haha me for 4 days
You are the best! Worked like a charm. Took me a while. It wouldn’t work for me at first, then I just had to go round to each tap and try the same method. As my kitchen tap cold was straight off the mains I actually sucked (with my mouth) the faucet and forced the hot to come out, had to do the same with my shower. I was almost ready to pull the immersion cylinder out so you have saved me hours. Thank you so much!
Dam ! Thank you so much,you got me out of a big jam! I worked a 14 hour day to have my sister need a hand burying a cable for the internet finally finished and to have my wife tell me hot waters not working and it just so happens to be freezing today and i really need a shower! Lol. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!
Fantastic mate, cheers for this. Worked straight off the bat. Many thanks!
It might be a small trip but I'm sure this will be useful for many I see you don't have a big channel really think so I appreciate you posting this as I'm sure it will be useful to very many thank you
Thank you so much, husband had tried every thing or so he thought.
Went to you tube found you and Wah! it worked thanks for sharing.
Cancelled the Plumber for the morning! Worked a treat thank you
Thanks Mark. Got it done in seconds. You're a legend!
what a God send as I searched the internet for answers came across this vid, I thought this cant be true but it worked, can't thank you enough *******
Hi Mark, fair play to you 👏, That is the best and easiest way to get rid of a hot water Air lock video I have come across,you saved me a few quid, Brilliant excellent and thanks again 👍,if I could get you a drink I would..
You deserve some sort of medal.
A very neat trick to simply fix plumbing air lock!
Was just about to ring a plumber..... THANKYOU 😂😂😂
Fantastic idea, big thanks for this, worked in under a minute
Thanks Mark, simple solution and it worked. Saved an expense
Worked like a charm! We had sub zero temperatures over the last few days and. I went to take a shower in the master bath and had no hot water out of the sink, tub, and shower. I checked the hall bath, half bath and kitchen and the hot water worked just fine. I was scared to death that I would need a plumber to fix the problem or worse than that some pipe had burst due to the weather. In less than five minutes, hot water flow was restored to all three fixtures. Thanks again.
You sir are a star! Thanks for this. Your tip sorted out my problem after the 3rd attempt 👍
Excellent... worked perfectly.. you saved me a lot of hassle. Thanks
Great trick!! Worked in 3 seconds flat after spending over 1 hour trouble shooting it.
Yep! Or, if you have one of those push on bath tap shower thingies, just put it on to the bath taps as usual, take the shower head off the end of the pipe, get the washer out of that end, then put your thumb over the hole in the end of the pipe, making sure the shower "button" is in the shower position and do exactly what Mark did in the video. Hot tap on first, then cold. The cold water has a higher pressure than the hot, so it pushes it back up to the hot tank and should also take the air lock with it.
Heh, the bathroom's a better place to have water spray about after all. 😉