I think I’ve been misunderstood here. Tradespeople are still working during lockdown and still working in people’s homes. Just not some of the ones I want to use right now.

Between fixing up our flat to sell, moving house, and getting things checked/recommissioned at the new house, we’ve had loads of workies in through the year. From glaziers to gas engineers, fireplace installers, plumbers, etc.

Is this the DIY/home-help thread? 

If so - how comes I've suddenly got hot water from the tap but not in my radiators?  ta.

Some (all?) boilers have two way valves inside that dictate if hot water goes to heating, taps or a mix of both.
If that has broken or gummed up it wont be able to regulate that flow. I tcould be that.

When mine went it was easy to tell as running the hot tap made the radiators hot. If yours has gone it would be the opposite issue which will be harder to test.

Ta.  It's very sudden, and all the radiators, which makes me think not just bleeding.  Will check dials but they all looked sensible, so maybe it is a gunged up internal valve thingy, in which case boo and hiss.

When it happened to me it was the height of summer, I was hungover trying to have a shower while the flat got hotter and hotter making me more and more frustrated. 
The guy degunked mine, mostly caused by hard water. I didnt pay much more than the standard call out charge.

Muzzy is in London so add a couple of zeros onto the end of that.

it's  likely to be the valve that switches the hot water between the tap and the central heating. Happened to us - water board was working on the road and whacked a plug of clay into the mains to save them the bother of cutting off the supply...our boiler valve had clay in it.


Cunts.

Did you bleed the radiators? That would make them work again. You might need to top up the pressure in the system though. You do that at the boiler - it will have a pressure gauge and there will be a tap used to top the pressure up.

Maybe the valve sorted itself out and became unjammed.

I hate to be the one to break it to you Pops, but you've put them in the crate the wrong way round...

It’s funny because it’s true exactly the sort of thing I’d expect now.

I hope you washed it down with real ale in a dirty tankard.

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No, poncy wine. But Henry VIII drank wine, so...

Wines not poncy if it accompanies a real man sized steak. You ate it with your hands though right? Of course you did, goes with out saying.

Google's Bowie knife.

You get a Clint Eastwood nodding gif. Damn my luddite ways!

That's what you get for living in a commune.