Evening all.
So yesterday I woke up to no heating. Had a look at the boiler and noticed a small drip coming out of the condensate trap on the underside of the boiler.
The (40mm) condensate pipework runs through the wall to outside and connects to a down pipe.
I took the front cover off the boiler and loosened the trap and water started running out of the plastic condensate line from the top of the boiler (base of the flue) so I figured the condensate pipework had frozen.
I poured some hot water onto the outside pipe until I heard it start to drain and the pipe sounded hollow.
Reset the boiler and everything worked.
Had a look tonight and there’s still a drip coming from what looks like the trap. The trap sides and top feel dry and I’ve whipped the cover off the boiler again and that’s all dry inside too.
This leads me to think there must be a split in the trap itself - does this seem plausible?
I don’t want to take the trap off because I’m wary of it breaking fully and I want a replacement ready in case that happens. Just Googled and they’re ~£70 inc VAT so before I part with the money I thought I’d ask on here…
I’m also planning to insulate the external pipe and cut in a tee with an inspection plug on the branch so I can get some warm water straight in there if it happens again.
Does that also seem logical?
Thanks in advance
So yesterday I woke up to no heating. Had a look at the boiler and noticed a small drip coming out of the condensate trap on the underside of the boiler.
The (40mm) condensate pipework runs through the wall to outside and connects to a down pipe.
I took the front cover off the boiler and loosened the trap and water started running out of the plastic condensate line from the top of the boiler (base of the flue) so I figured the condensate pipework had frozen.
I poured some hot water onto the outside pipe until I heard it start to drain and the pipe sounded hollow.
Reset the boiler and everything worked.
Had a look tonight and there’s still a drip coming from what looks like the trap. The trap sides and top feel dry and I’ve whipped the cover off the boiler again and that’s all dry inside too.
This leads me to think there must be a split in the trap itself - does this seem plausible?
I don’t want to take the trap off because I’m wary of it breaking fully and I want a replacement ready in case that happens. Just Googled and they’re ~£70 inc VAT so before I part with the money I thought I’d ask on here…
I’m also planning to insulate the external pipe and cut in a tee with an inspection plug on the branch so I can get some warm water straight in there if it happens again.
Does that also seem logical?
Thanks in advance
