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Yes sir and we also have a Magnacleaner :)

Cheers - yes, just finished and tested and all seems okay :mrgreen:

Kitchen diner capping made no difference. So I assumed the only place it could be was in the living room. I picked an already cut floorboard, lifted it and found a pipe sitting in a pool of water! Lifted the pipe to fine a 1mm jet of water spraying out of it. So pretty jammy in the end. Thanks...

Further update. I gave the iso valves one more go last night so turned them both 1/4 turn and also shut down the iso valve on the incoming mains feed. This time, the pressure held at 2 bar. I then opened the iso valve for the incoming feed and left it for a few hours, and the pressure stayed...

Thanks - the mains pressure is pretty high in our property, so would assume it wouldn't be this, but it's odd all round ATM, so maybe! But yes I agree, it's most likely a system leak, but I just can't get past the iso valves not working for 'pressure' but working to hold back water - I've...

I'm going to begin capping off sections tomorrow and monday, but before I do, can anyone confirm whether or not it's a known issue that isolation valves can sometimes hold water but not pressure? Basically everything I've read says that isolating via those valves is a sound test, but BG saying...

When the boiler was disconnected from the system, the pressure was stable - so surely the prv pipe would have to be fine?

Rennovation job, so lots of work. That entire kitchen diner was re-piped, new rads, oak floor down, just over a year ago. Most of it is not accessible as the cellar only covers a bit of the ground floor. I will cap off that entire circuit, it's not hard to do from the cellar where it tees...

If the pressure then remains constant, what problem would this suggest? Engineer reckons on our system, 1 bar will be approx half a litre, so I think we'd notice wet patches in the ceiling if it was anywhere other than ground floor. All external 'orifices' have been bagged and checked -...

I was hoping someone could give some advice about our problem. 2 weeks ago, our Valliant boiler started losing pressure, approximately 1 bar every day. I switched it off and isolated the return and flow using the valves underneath the boiler, but the pressure kept dropping at the same rate...

Thanks, great site you have there, very helpful!

Hi We're just about to order an engineered floor for our soon-to-be open plan kitchen dining room, which will be approx 8m x 4.5m in size (once the wall gets taken away!). The existing dining room has the original timber floor boards, while the kitchen is concrete (built 1922, we assume no...