Hello
First post, so please be gentle.
Set up: ground floor flat . kitchen-diner area at the back of the building with one radiator away on the internal wall. This wall backs onto the bathroom which occupies the middle "third", also with a radiator. Vaillant Ecomax boiler installed in the kitchen c 4years ago, no apparent problems since. The boiler has not been used for heating for a couple of months, although we obviously use it for hot water every morning!
Last night we noticed that our Vaillant Ecomax was "venting" every 30secs or so. Looking at the LCD the boiler seemed to think the hot water was on... which it wasn't.
looking around we noticed that there were some "hot spots" on the floor near the kitchen-diner radiator, and the radiator was warm for no reason but otherwise nothing seemed amiss. Anyway it was late....(famous last words...) Went to bed, showered etc next morning etc. and went to work.
Home in the evening and there is water seeping through the carpet at the radiator which was mystriously on as well as in the bathroom. The landlord says a plumber will be in tomorrow, but is there anything I should do in the meantime? I've switched the boiler off, so all the radiators have no cooled down but is this a boiler issue? burst hot water pipe? water pressure?
any ideas, plese let me know!
First post, so please be gentle.
Set up: ground floor flat . kitchen-diner area at the back of the building with one radiator away on the internal wall. This wall backs onto the bathroom which occupies the middle "third", also with a radiator. Vaillant Ecomax boiler installed in the kitchen c 4years ago, no apparent problems since. The boiler has not been used for heating for a couple of months, although we obviously use it for hot water every morning!
Last night we noticed that our Vaillant Ecomax was "venting" every 30secs or so. Looking at the LCD the boiler seemed to think the hot water was on... which it wasn't.
looking around we noticed that there were some "hot spots" on the floor near the kitchen-diner radiator, and the radiator was warm for no reason but otherwise nothing seemed amiss. Anyway it was late....(famous last words...) Went to bed, showered etc next morning etc. and went to work.
Home in the evening and there is water seeping through the carpet at the radiator which was mystriously on as well as in the bathroom. The landlord says a plumber will be in tomorrow, but is there anything I should do in the meantime? I've switched the boiler off, so all the radiators have no cooled down but is this a boiler issue? burst hot water pipe? water pressure?
any ideas, plese let me know!
