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Okay, I've recently moved into a new flat and am inexperienced when it comes to all things central heating.
The flat is fitted with a Biasi combi boiler. The lady who i bought the flat from was good enough to show me the basic mechanics of the boiler before she left.
She said I was to keep the pressure gage between one and two and then showed me the refil tap should it dip below that.
All was fine until a couple of days ago when I discovered there was no hot water coming from the kitchen sink tap. I checked the pressure gage on the boiler and saw it was near zero. The boiler wouldn't switch on when I tried to do so, so I refilled it to 1.5 and hey presto it ignited.
Problem solved I thought. No. The pressure gage then rose to about 2.7 and looked like continuing, so I switched the the thing off.
The next morning i saw the pressure had dropped to about 1.
This is when I realised I had a problem. I scoured the five radiators in my flat and discovered one had a small dripping emanating from the bit on the bottom that attaches the radiator to what looks like a copper pipe coming up through the floorboards.
Around the hole in the floorboard, from which the pipe protrudes, was quite soggy.
I've switched that radiator's heat setting to zero and wrapped a towel around the source of the dripping.
What should I do now?
I don't know whether the dripping has caused the boiler to play up or if the boiler playing up has caused the radiator to start dripping.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The flat is fitted with a Biasi combi boiler. The lady who i bought the flat from was good enough to show me the basic mechanics of the boiler before she left.
She said I was to keep the pressure gage between one and two and then showed me the refil tap should it dip below that.
All was fine until a couple of days ago when I discovered there was no hot water coming from the kitchen sink tap. I checked the pressure gage on the boiler and saw it was near zero. The boiler wouldn't switch on when I tried to do so, so I refilled it to 1.5 and hey presto it ignited.
Problem solved I thought. No. The pressure gage then rose to about 2.7 and looked like continuing, so I switched the the thing off.
The next morning i saw the pressure had dropped to about 1.
This is when I realised I had a problem. I scoured the five radiators in my flat and discovered one had a small dripping emanating from the bit on the bottom that attaches the radiator to what looks like a copper pipe coming up through the floorboards.
Around the hole in the floorboard, from which the pipe protrudes, was quite soggy.
I've switched that radiator's heat setting to zero and wrapped a towel around the source of the dripping.
What should I do now?
I don't know whether the dripping has caused the boiler to play up or if the boiler playing up has caused the radiator to start dripping.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.