Hi all
First time poster so please take pity on me if this is in the wrong place, but not exactly sure where it should be.
I've an oil fired external Grant combi boiler. It's been out of use for a couple of years but is on the brink of being up and running again. The oil runs from a tank located away from the house, through a below ground pipe that comes up through the concrete slab at the corner of the house, and then runs along the wall into the boiler. When it was initially switched on there was some leakage from the joint about the concrete, but this has now been soldered and hopefully that's fixed it.
Now we come to the mystery. There is a strong smell of oil inside the house. First of all it was a small upstairs room that's just had a radiator fitted. That appears to have dissipated, but now there's a similar smell in the below stairs cupboard. The heating engineer has a bit puzzled, so I was wondering is it something I should be worried about? Near where the oil leak was occurring there is a crack in the slab, and I wondered if oil might have spilled down that, and the vapour is now rising up inside the wall void?
First time poster so please take pity on me if this is in the wrong place, but not exactly sure where it should be.
I've an oil fired external Grant combi boiler. It's been out of use for a couple of years but is on the brink of being up and running again. The oil runs from a tank located away from the house, through a below ground pipe that comes up through the concrete slab at the corner of the house, and then runs along the wall into the boiler. When it was initially switched on there was some leakage from the joint about the concrete, but this has now been soldered and hopefully that's fixed it.
Now we come to the mystery. There is a strong smell of oil inside the house. First of all it was a small upstairs room that's just had a radiator fitted. That appears to have dissipated, but now there's a similar smell in the below stairs cupboard. The heating engineer has a bit puzzled, so I was wondering is it something I should be worried about? Near where the oil leak was occurring there is a crack in the slab, and I wondered if oil might have spilled down that, and the vapour is now rising up inside the wall void?