Pressure decreasing every day ever since radiator reattached
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:25 pm
Hello! Please can someone help me with this? :)
I had a single radiator removed and reattached about a week ago (as part of decorating job) - when they were doing this they increased the boiler pressure back to usual (1.5) and all appeared fine - hot water / heating (including reattached radiator) worked OK
But ever since then, the pressure on my boiler has been decreasing every day by betwen 0.5 and 1 and I keep having to top it up when it hits 0.5 - as I didn't want it to hit 0 in case the hot water / heating stopped working (previous to this I only needed to increase the pressure approx once a year!) I was waiting for the people who did the radiator to come & check this issue out as soon as they were free.
Unfortunately today I couldn't increase the pressure at all - I have a combi boiler with flexible pipe & black valve key which is what I normally use but when I turn it today the pressure does not increase (normally it makes a shhh sound while it's increasing but now it makes this sound only for a second then goes silent) So I'm worried that the pressure may drop to 0 and everything stops working completely before they come.
Any ideas on why both issues above happened / how to fix gratefully received, many thanks.
I had a single radiator removed and reattached about a week ago (as part of decorating job) - when they were doing this they increased the boiler pressure back to usual (1.5) and all appeared fine - hot water / heating (including reattached radiator) worked OK
But ever since then, the pressure on my boiler has been decreasing every day by betwen 0.5 and 1 and I keep having to top it up when it hits 0.5 - as I didn't want it to hit 0 in case the hot water / heating stopped working (previous to this I only needed to increase the pressure approx once a year!) I was waiting for the people who did the radiator to come & check this issue out as soon as they were free.
Unfortunately today I couldn't increase the pressure at all - I have a combi boiler with flexible pipe & black valve key which is what I normally use but when I turn it today the pressure does not increase (normally it makes a shhh sound while it's increasing but now it makes this sound only for a second then goes silent) So I'm worried that the pressure may drop to 0 and everything stops working completely before they come.
Any ideas on why both issues above happened / how to fix gratefully received, many thanks.