Before I go into my problem, just want to say, what a good community this is. Now as I've buttered you up, could somebody please help me with my problem.
I found water spurting out of a small hosepipe hanging out of the bottom of my boiler. Presumably this is from the pressure release valve? I checked the water pressure and saw that it was about 3 bar, so released the manual pressure release valve and dropped it to 1 bar. Unfortunately, the next day it was back to 3 bar and spirting water again. I giggled my way through this forum (some of you really are mad'eads ) and have consequently done the following things;
1 - completely emptied the system, refilled it making sure no airlocks
2 - checked the expansion vessel - there is pressure and no water in it
3 - removed the filling loop type thing between the DHW and the CH - the braided pipe
None of this has fixed the problem. I'm now really stuck so was wondering if anyone has any other ideas before I make a call a plumber.
PS - I know someone will probably tell me that the boiler's a pile of bob (I don't need to be told this) but as we've got new princess in the house, can't afford a new one at the moment - and probably won't for decades come to think of it!!
I found water spurting out of a small hosepipe hanging out of the bottom of my boiler. Presumably this is from the pressure release valve? I checked the water pressure and saw that it was about 3 bar, so released the manual pressure release valve and dropped it to 1 bar. Unfortunately, the next day it was back to 3 bar and spirting water again. I giggled my way through this forum (some of you really are mad'eads ) and have consequently done the following things;
1 - completely emptied the system, refilled it making sure no airlocks
2 - checked the expansion vessel - there is pressure and no water in it
3 - removed the filling loop type thing between the DHW and the CH - the braided pipe
None of this has fixed the problem. I'm now really stuck so was wondering if anyone has any other ideas before I make a call a plumber.
PS - I know someone will probably tell me that the boiler's a pile of bob (I don't need to be told this) but as we've got new princess in the house, can't afford a new one at the moment - and probably won't for decades come to think of it!!