I've noted that there's already an ongoing thread about boiler pressures, but I don't want to hijack someone else's issue.
We've got a 12 month old Ideal Logic C30 running five rads in a bungalow. Yes, just five rads.
We had a bedroom rad changed the other day, from a monstrous and useless 1900mm wide single panel to a modern 1000mm T22. All well, or so I thought. About an hour after the Gas Safe engineer left we discovered that the hot water taps were dry. I called the engineer, and it turned out that he'd left the filling taps open on the boiler. The pressure was sky high and the PRV had operated. I turned the loop off and bled the system down to just under 2 bars; all appears to be operating OK.
On Tuesday, the day of the boiler fitting, the pressure gauge showed 1.35 bars: since then its dropped to 1.3. It feels to me as if that small drop isn't anything to worry about at this stage, and all the rad valves feel dry and there's no sign of any water under the boiler. If any joints under the suspended floor are weeping there's plenty of crawling room within that forest of spiders' webs for a pipe check and If any leaks do show themselves I'll call the engineer.
However my question is this: will a temporary leap up to 4 bars have done the boiler any harm? It was only that high for about an hour, I reckon, and the PRV hasn't leaked since. There are no fault codes on the panel.
We've got a 12 month old Ideal Logic C30 running five rads in a bungalow. Yes, just five rads.
We had a bedroom rad changed the other day, from a monstrous and useless 1900mm wide single panel to a modern 1000mm T22. All well, or so I thought. About an hour after the Gas Safe engineer left we discovered that the hot water taps were dry. I called the engineer, and it turned out that he'd left the filling taps open on the boiler. The pressure was sky high and the PRV had operated. I turned the loop off and bled the system down to just under 2 bars; all appears to be operating OK.
On Tuesday, the day of the boiler fitting, the pressure gauge showed 1.35 bars: since then its dropped to 1.3. It feels to me as if that small drop isn't anything to worry about at this stage, and all the rad valves feel dry and there's no sign of any water under the boiler. If any joints under the suspended floor are weeping there's plenty of crawling room within that forest of spiders' webs for a pipe check and If any leaks do show themselves I'll call the engineer.
However my question is this: will a temporary leap up to 4 bars have done the boiler any harm? It was only that high for about an hour, I reckon, and the PRV hasn't leaked since. There are no fault codes on the panel.
