Hi all.
Hope some one can advise me as my home insurance cover for CH apparently does not cover intermittent leaks!!
I had a couple of issues with my boiler so called homecare on insurance as the DHW was not very warm and boiler was giving error codes.
Also I am getting a leak which seems worse in cold weather and nearly always when dhw turned on and bolier burns at max.
The wonderful enginner told me the errors were caused by the system being full of crap and needed a fluch ( not covered for that either) and the leak was from the plastic outlet pipe even though I told him it was from top of boler by the main heat exchanger.
I traced the DHW problem to the dhw heat exchanger which was coroded inside so that was replaced and is now ok but left with the leak.
The leak happens when demand for dhw is max and when bolier powere on for first time.
The water seems to be dripping down from behind the back of the main heat exchanger.
My insurance say that as the leak is not "permanent" I am not covered!!
I looked at the service manual and procedure for main heat exchanger replacement and it mentions that there is a gasket seal to be replaced at same time between the main heat exchanger and the flue duct.
I think the main exchanger is ok and works fine so suspect the leak may be caused by this seal?
Just looking for advice/confirmation.
Oh by the way, the system pressure is ok even with this leak.
Hope some one can advise me as my home insurance cover for CH apparently does not cover intermittent leaks!!
I had a couple of issues with my boiler so called homecare on insurance as the DHW was not very warm and boiler was giving error codes.
Also I am getting a leak which seems worse in cold weather and nearly always when dhw turned on and bolier burns at max.
The wonderful enginner told me the errors were caused by the system being full of crap and needed a fluch ( not covered for that either) and the leak was from the plastic outlet pipe even though I told him it was from top of boler by the main heat exchanger.
I traced the DHW problem to the dhw heat exchanger which was coroded inside so that was replaced and is now ok but left with the leak.
The leak happens when demand for dhw is max and when bolier powere on for first time.
The water seems to be dripping down from behind the back of the main heat exchanger.
My insurance say that as the leak is not "permanent" I am not covered!!
I looked at the service manual and procedure for main heat exchanger replacement and it mentions that there is a gasket seal to be replaced at same time between the main heat exchanger and the flue duct.
I think the main exchanger is ok and works fine so suspect the leak may be caused by this seal?
Just looking for advice/confirmation.
Oh by the way, the system pressure is ok even with this leak.