Hi all,
I've checked the heating FAQ's but am still not entirely sure what to do about my present situation, and would really appreciate any advice from someone who knows what they're talking about.
I've been losing pressure more quickly than is normal from my Worcester 240 combi for a good while now, but haven't had any great issue just letting a bit more pressure in with the tap when it gets a bit low. The boiler's carried on functioning okay, as have the radiators.
British Gas came to fix a new Smart Meter last week outside the house, and my pilot light went out while they had the gas off. As my ignition has gone and it's quite an old boiler, I got them back to re-light it today for free. At the point they started, pressure was just above zero - the engineer opened the tap and let it rise to about 1, which I didn't obviously question.
However now the pilot's back on and the boiler is heating the house again, pressure is climbing and climbing - it went past 3 earlier and I couldn't hear a pressure relief valve kicking in, so I turned it off out of panic. It hadn't been past 2 bar in living memory.
The pressure duly dropped down to about 1.5 over the next couple of hours, so I stuck the heating on again (house has been freezing for several days now so in a bit of a rush to get warm to say the least). It duly climbed past 3 over the next 15 minutes or so, so I turned it off again.
Is there anything a complete heating ignoramus can do to relieve the pressure a bit manually? The manual and servicing guide I found online weren't overly clear. The boiler is and looks ancient, so I'm a bit wary to just leave the pressure climbing on the premise it will hopefully get let out automatically.
I do know that history tells me if I just leave it alone then it'll probably drop over the next 7 days, but I'm really not up for being cold that long
Any thoughts, chaps?
Thanks a lot.
I've checked the heating FAQ's but am still not entirely sure what to do about my present situation, and would really appreciate any advice from someone who knows what they're talking about.
I've been losing pressure more quickly than is normal from my Worcester 240 combi for a good while now, but haven't had any great issue just letting a bit more pressure in with the tap when it gets a bit low. The boiler's carried on functioning okay, as have the radiators.
British Gas came to fix a new Smart Meter last week outside the house, and my pilot light went out while they had the gas off. As my ignition has gone and it's quite an old boiler, I got them back to re-light it today for free. At the point they started, pressure was just above zero - the engineer opened the tap and let it rise to about 1, which I didn't obviously question.
However now the pilot's back on and the boiler is heating the house again, pressure is climbing and climbing - it went past 3 earlier and I couldn't hear a pressure relief valve kicking in, so I turned it off out of panic. It hadn't been past 2 bar in living memory.
The pressure duly dropped down to about 1.5 over the next couple of hours, so I stuck the heating on again (house has been freezing for several days now so in a bit of a rush to get warm to say the least). It duly climbed past 3 over the next 15 minutes or so, so I turned it off again.
Is there anything a complete heating ignoramus can do to relieve the pressure a bit manually? The manual and servicing guide I found online weren't overly clear. The boiler is and looks ancient, so I'm a bit wary to just leave the pressure climbing on the premise it will hopefully get let out automatically.
I do know that history tells me if I just leave it alone then it'll probably drop over the next 7 days, but I'm really not up for being cold that long
Any thoughts, chaps?
Thanks a lot.