For those that saw my recent post enquiring about replacing my back boiler to something modern. Looks like this has now been brought forward.
Have started getting brown water coming from my hot water taps. All cold water in bathrooms and downstairs is fine.
I believe that the piping inside the hot water cylinder has perforated allowing the dirty radiator water to seep through.
Does that sound correct or could there be another explanation.
I should add that yesterday, I had the wall thermostat in the living room changed as the old one was going haywire.
Since then, the central heating has been much hotter but coincidentally this brown water issue has occurred.
Could it be that this now extra heat and pressure has burst the pipes in the cylinder.?
Alternately, the water in the cylinder heating up more and disturbing any sludge in the bottom of the cylinder?
Either way, a be cylinder and if I can get someone to do it, the entire boiler system but just wanted some ideas.
Thanks in advance
Have started getting brown water coming from my hot water taps. All cold water in bathrooms and downstairs is fine.
I believe that the piping inside the hot water cylinder has perforated allowing the dirty radiator water to seep through.
Does that sound correct or could there be another explanation.
I should add that yesterday, I had the wall thermostat in the living room changed as the old one was going haywire.
Since then, the central heating has been much hotter but coincidentally this brown water issue has occurred.
Could it be that this now extra heat and pressure has burst the pipes in the cylinder.?
Alternately, the water in the cylinder heating up more and disturbing any sludge in the bottom of the cylinder?
Either way, a be cylinder and if I can get someone to do it, the entire boiler system but just wanted some ideas.
Thanks in advance
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