Hi there,
Hopefully someone can help me with an independant opinion on this. I have a Jaguar boiler, 5 years old. It's been releasing pressure & requiring topping up too often recently. At first I thought it was the pressure release valve being faulty & needing replacing which I did, but my plumber says the expansion vessel needs replacing and that he needs to remove the boiler from the wall to do it at considerable expense to me.
Now my plumber is the type of guy who tends to want to replace the whole boiler if he thinks I'll say yes, so I'm wondering if he's having me on & could just charge the expansion vessel with air instead.
He didn't have a pump today so couldn't try it. Do you think I should insist on trying this first or that the vessel needs changing?
Or with very limited experience I'm also wondering if just part of the vessel needs changing, I hear they have tyre type valves fitted to them.
Thanks.
Hopefully someone can help me with an independant opinion on this. I have a Jaguar boiler, 5 years old. It's been releasing pressure & requiring topping up too often recently. At first I thought it was the pressure release valve being faulty & needing replacing which I did, but my plumber says the expansion vessel needs replacing and that he needs to remove the boiler from the wall to do it at considerable expense to me.
Now my plumber is the type of guy who tends to want to replace the whole boiler if he thinks I'll say yes, so I'm wondering if he's having me on & could just charge the expansion vessel with air instead.
He didn't have a pump today so couldn't try it. Do you think I should insist on trying this first or that the vessel needs changing?
Or with very limited experience I'm also wondering if just part of the vessel needs changing, I hear they have tyre type valves fitted to them.
Thanks.