glowworm leaking heat exchanger

[persiamomolti]

There is a small leak on the heat exchanger, have tightened nuts and leak has been reduced but still a little weep, do these have rubber seals inside or anything, thanks.

 

[kevplumb]

glo-worm what

 

[persiamomolti]

glowworm boiler.

 

[kevplumb]

well i try'd

 

[nickso]

glowworm boiler.

cracking answer. i thought it was a gloworm kettle you were asking about.

 

[persiamomolti]

ha,ha, no, it`s a wall hung boiler. Combi.

 

[tonybhoy]

I think wot kev is trying to say mate is that Glowworm have about 30 current boiler models on the market, possibly even more.

Last time I had a look at the little blue book of boilers (2005) there were over 1200 different boilers listed as being in use in the UK.

In short you need to narrow things down a tad to the specific model.

 

[nickso]

ha,ha, no, it`s a wall hung boiler. Combi.

try again

 

[tonybhoy]

ha,ha, no, it`s a wall hung boiler. Combi.

Well that does narrow things down a tad to about 20 boilers

 

[persiamomolti]

it`s 30 c xi. thanks.

 

[nickso]

the two pipe connections to the heatex on these have rubber washers in them. could be knackered. ive tightened loose ones before with no leaking for years afterwards.

 

[tonybhoy]

it`s 30 c xi. thanks.

Well done mate, only took us ten posts to get there

 

[persiamomolti]

Thanks, it leaking from front, can see water weeping from beneath on one of nuts holding front on heat exchanger.

 

[tonybhoy]

Thanks, it leaking from front, can see water weeping from beneath on one of nuts holding front on heat exchanger.

Try sticking your heating on for an hour or so at full blast and see what happens.

 

[nickso]

if its at the front then the rubber seal for the sump has degraded or worse the main seal around the burner hole is knackered.


get it looked at immediately before it gets worse and sets fire to the inside of the boiler. im not kidding.