Recent content by carolf

Just to finish the story. The boiler was checked and all OK, no leaks there. The plumber checked for leaks in the coil inside the hot water tank by emptying and looking in through the immersion heater hole, no leak. He then increased the pressure in the boiler to see if that would bring anything...

We had old railway sleepers installed to hold back the raised ground around our new patio about 15 months ago and they look really good. We had a bit of smell for a couple of months, but that's all gone and we have had no leakage of tar or anything else from them. The work was done by...

Thanks for taking the time to respond, I have found a plumber who will tackle the problem for me, he's going to check the boiler and the coil in the hot water tank for leaks, and go from there. Hopefully the concrete floor won't have to be dug up!

We may possibly have a leak underground in our central heating system (trying to find the cause of drop in pressure of our new condensing boiler - see my other post). Any thoughts on or problems with using fernox leak sealer to fix the problem?

Help please. We had a new glowworm condensing boiler fitted (and the rads pressure cleaned) a couple of months ago and are having problems with the pressure. It was fine at first when we were just heating hot water and one of the radiators, but since opening all the radiator valves and using the...