hello - any help gratefully received as have so far not been able to get a plumber to even call me back on this!
Couple of weeks back we had a powercut when I had the hot water heating up. We have a potterton boiler will be 10 years old so far worked OK. Came home after a hour or so of elec being off and overflow pipe is dripping. 30 mins later it's gushing! Turned stopcock off and stopped drained out the hot water from the tank into the bath and thought everything OK but not so.
Hubby replaced the ball bit that goes in the tank as this was covered in limescale but we still have this dripping problem so have to use hot water and then turn off water supply. Can't go on like this not knowing what the problem is.
We have a small house and we have a mixer tap for our shower / bath taps no electric shower so need the hot water on.
Hope someone can help. Maybe nothing to do with powercut but v strange coincidence.
Couple of weeks back we had a powercut when I had the hot water heating up. We have a potterton boiler will be 10 years old so far worked OK. Came home after a hour or so of elec being off and overflow pipe is dripping. 30 mins later it's gushing! Turned stopcock off and stopped drained out the hot water from the tank into the bath and thought everything OK but not so.
Hubby replaced the ball bit that goes in the tank as this was covered in limescale but we still have this dripping problem so have to use hot water and then turn off water supply. Can't go on like this not knowing what the problem is.
We have a small house and we have a mixer tap for our shower / bath taps no electric shower so need the hot water on.
Hope someone can help. Maybe nothing to do with powercut but v strange coincidence.