My condensing boiler seems to have some kind of leak not associated with any water pipe.When I take the cover off, the inside has condensation at the top, near to where the pump sucks in the air.Is this a big problem/normal?It's 18 months old and doesn't seem to do it in summer, when I only heat the water.Any ideas/information.Thanks
Keston 25 fault symptom
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Not being an expert - I'd say no, as the intake is about an inch from the cover (when it's in place) where the condensation is and I've watched it with the cover off and couldn't see anything?ollski said:
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corgiman said:
Can you elaborate - expensive/easy to fix?
Had a similar problem on a bigger Keston which they said was common. The air intake can suck the "plume" in, depending on the weather and wind direction.
It seemed pretty unlikely in the particular installation as the two were well separated, but they were right! Raising the flue outlet half a metre, solved the problem .
It seemed pretty unlikely in the particular installation as the two were well separated, but they were right! Raising the flue outlet half a metre, solved the problem .
ChrisR said:
It does only happen in quite cold weather.As I said before not at all in summer and infrequently in winter.The inlet flue is at the top left and the suction intake is at the top right, about 30-35 CMs apart (inside the boiler case).The outlet plume does seem to exhaust across my inlet flue alot, on the outside, which is what I think you are on about - there is also a heck of a lot of steam
The inlet is down and exhaust is up (180degrees opposite), but both my neighbour and I had conservatories built last summer, and its a bit squally when windy around there now. I suspect we're onto a winner, cheers guysAgile said:
Yeah, could only get hold of 50mm pipe and then found out the installed pipe is slightly bigger, but got tha job done and so far so goodchrishutt said:
Outlet is now about half a metre (up) above the inlet (down) and I've checked once - all seems good, up til now.I think I was getting a strange effect where it was sited. CheersChrisR said:
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