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Hi there, wondering if anyone has any pointers, in the middle of a stressful refurbishment that was meant to finish a week ago! I am completely in the dark about boilers, but we agreed to the recommendation of a new pressurised unvented system that would feed direct off the mains (Vaillant ecotec, 300L cylinder for 5 bed house). This installation is part of a refurb of a late 1970's house, including installing 3 new bathrooms (tiling and sanitaryware), a new kitchen and new carpets and wood flooring.
So, most of the bathrooms have been re-tiled, and when they looked at the floors they noticed the pipes were 'metric' and needed replacing, so they replaced all the pipes in the bathrooms upstairs. Downstairs, the kitchen tiles have been laid and the ground floor cloakroom too. The plan was to start the wood flooring early next week, once the new boiler had been pressure tested - they have just done that and have said all works fine upstairs, but downstairs it keeps dropping pressure.
They are suggesting that there might be a leak in one of the pipes in the ground floor, although there is no evidence of any water leak and there were no issues with the older boiler and heating system before they installed this new unvented system. Is it the pressure of this new system that could have just blown one of the older pipes in the ground floor too? If they had said this could be a possibility we probably would have just stuck with the older boiler that was working fine for now!
Any ideas as to what I need to ask them before they investigate and decide sections of the ground floor now need digging up and pipes replacing? The project as expected has gone well over budget, and this was a nice Christmas present today
Thanks for any advice...gratefully received as very confused about the situation...
So, most of the bathrooms have been re-tiled, and when they looked at the floors they noticed the pipes were 'metric' and needed replacing, so they replaced all the pipes in the bathrooms upstairs. Downstairs, the kitchen tiles have been laid and the ground floor cloakroom too. The plan was to start the wood flooring early next week, once the new boiler had been pressure tested - they have just done that and have said all works fine upstairs, but downstairs it keeps dropping pressure.
They are suggesting that there might be a leak in one of the pipes in the ground floor, although there is no evidence of any water leak and there were no issues with the older boiler and heating system before they installed this new unvented system. Is it the pressure of this new system that could have just blown one of the older pipes in the ground floor too? If they had said this could be a possibility we probably would have just stuck with the older boiler that was working fine for now!
Any ideas as to what I need to ask them before they investigate and decide sections of the ground floor now need digging up and pipes replacing? The project as expected has gone well over budget, and this was a nice Christmas present today
Thanks for any advice...gratefully received as very confused about the situation...