hi. just wondering. if you suspect a room sealed boiler is leaking poc into the room but cant determine where the hole is would it be aceptable to through a smoke bomb into the combustion chamber thus any smoke exiting boiler will tell you where the leak is coming from?
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If your fast enough to get entry point resealed then yes it will show you leakage but bear in mind a roomsealed appliance will have very slight leakage on some of the seams etc
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If the boiler has a 100 mm round flue then its often possible to make a gas tight seal and do a tightness test on the boiler case via the flue.
If its a fanned flue boiler and you can keep the burner off then you can try putting a smoke pellet at the inlet and see if you can see any smoke inside but thats not really a very scientific test and might not show up anything.
Since CO² is easy to measure, you would have a better chance of measuring this around the boiler case.
Tony
If its a fanned flue boiler and you can keep the burner off then you can try putting a smoke pellet at the inlet and see if you can see any smoke inside but thats not really a very scientific test and might not show up anything.
Since CO² is easy to measure, you would have a better chance of measuring this around the boiler case.
Tony
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