Hello, I feel like I've searched everywhere but couldn't find a similar problem to this! We've just bought a house, and although the electric and gas aren't yet connected, whenever we turn the water supply on at the mains, the boiler overflow starts to drip/mini stream outside the house. The boiler is a Britony Combi 80 SE. We'll be moving to the house in a couple of weeks.
Now, when I first checked it, the filling hose was closed at the water inlet valve, but open at the CH return, so I hoped that closing both of these would solve the problem in terms of isolating the water supply to the boiler. However it didn't.
What's more strange is that the pressure gauge is within the red at approximately 0.8 bar. We even tried opening the filling loop for about 10-20 secs to raise the pressure but it didn't seem to move (we didn't hear any water either, so closed them again).
I am so stumped by this. To start with I just need a way of stopping the drip (metered water) but I don't want to call anyone out until we've fully moved in and got the electric and gas back on!
Could it be that the pressure gauge is mis-reading, and/or the filling loop is passing water? I haven't tried removing the filling loop completely yet to test for this. Or could it sort itself out once the electricity is back on, in terms of "activating" valves etc?
Hoping someone has experience with this problem - appreciate your help and happy to supply any other info.
Now, when I first checked it, the filling hose was closed at the water inlet valve, but open at the CH return, so I hoped that closing both of these would solve the problem in terms of isolating the water supply to the boiler. However it didn't.
What's more strange is that the pressure gauge is within the red at approximately 0.8 bar. We even tried opening the filling loop for about 10-20 secs to raise the pressure but it didn't seem to move (we didn't hear any water either, so closed them again).
I am so stumped by this. To start with I just need a way of stopping the drip (metered water) but I don't want to call anyone out until we've fully moved in and got the electric and gas back on!
Could it be that the pressure gauge is mis-reading, and/or the filling loop is passing water? I haven't tried removing the filling loop completely yet to test for this. Or could it sort itself out once the electricity is back on, in terms of "activating" valves etc?
Hoping someone has experience with this problem - appreciate your help and happy to supply any other info.