Hi all. First time poster hoping for some advice please.
On Friday around 10:30am the plasterer we hired to smooth over all our Artex ceilings called to say that when he walked in, he saw the radiator pipe in the living room (top floor) gushing water like a fountain with the thermostatic valve about 10 feet away. (We had removed the radiator in the living room 2 weeks ago and capped it off in order to strip wallpaper and eventually paint.) The plasterer told us he tried to put the valve back on, unsuccessfully, and then called his plumber friend to turn off the water. The water appears to have been flowing for hours. We were in the house at 9pm the previous night and it was fine, but are staying elsewhere for a couple of weeks so we gave the plasterer a key.
In the end we have water damage to the ceilings and walls in three rooms, the hallway, and 3 closets on the bottom floor, damage to the floor in the living room, and the carpets will need to be replaced in all the affected rooms.
I can't seem to find anything on online about any situation where the pressure mysteriously increased like this. All advice is very gladly welcomed. How is it possible for the pressure to build up so much to shoot the thermostatic valve 10 feet across the room? This is a gravity fed system which comes from an expansion tank in the loft, and the heating was off. Why didn't it affect the other two rooms where we'd removed the radiators? And what do we do to make sure this never happens again, since we will be removing radiators to strip wallpaper and paint in other rooms once life returns to normal. Many, many thanks in advance for your help.
On Friday around 10:30am the plasterer we hired to smooth over all our Artex ceilings called to say that when he walked in, he saw the radiator pipe in the living room (top floor) gushing water like a fountain with the thermostatic valve about 10 feet away. (We had removed the radiator in the living room 2 weeks ago and capped it off in order to strip wallpaper and eventually paint.) The plasterer told us he tried to put the valve back on, unsuccessfully, and then called his plumber friend to turn off the water. The water appears to have been flowing for hours. We were in the house at 9pm the previous night and it was fine, but are staying elsewhere for a couple of weeks so we gave the plasterer a key.
In the end we have water damage to the ceilings and walls in three rooms, the hallway, and 3 closets on the bottom floor, damage to the floor in the living room, and the carpets will need to be replaced in all the affected rooms.
I can't seem to find anything on online about any situation where the pressure mysteriously increased like this. All advice is very gladly welcomed. How is it possible for the pressure to build up so much to shoot the thermostatic valve 10 feet across the room? This is a gravity fed system which comes from an expansion tank in the loft, and the heating was off. Why didn't it affect the other two rooms where we'd removed the radiators? And what do we do to make sure this never happens again, since we will be removing radiators to strip wallpaper and paint in other rooms once life returns to normal. Many, many thanks in advance for your help.