Hello guys!
I had an Ideal Combi Logic+ C24 fitted in August 2021 in my mid terraced house and I started noticing that it was losing pressure during winter 2021.
I had the first engineer sent by Ideal in March 2022 when the pressure was going down very fast, I could see the gauge going down. He said the boiler was OK, he changed some parts (there was also a whistling sound coming from the flue which was solved) and suggested that the boiler was OK and there must be a leak somewhere in the system. The advice was to wait 6 months and I would see some water escape sign. From the next day the pressure was still going down but way slower (did the leak get smaller? strange)
After that I haven't used the heating much until now, and I had to refill every 2 weeks, waiting for the leak to show up, but nothing yet.
Now I've started using the central heating again and the pressure starts going down again, e.g. from 1bar yesterday morning to 0.6bar now (flow and return temperature ~20C).
It should be a lot of water lost, I struggle to see how I still can't see it anywhere in the house?
I read yesterday that it could be that the PRV is faulty and the water goes outside. I checked and there is water going out.
I called Ideal and they say that it is normal that condensation water goes out and that they are not sending another engineer.
The issue is that both the condensation and PRV relief go into the same pipe outside as you can see from the picture, so I cannot tell if the water going out is from condensation or from the PRV.
Any ways to tell if the water comes out from the PRV? Do you guys have any advice to find the leak?
Thanks and have a great day!
Alessandro
I had an Ideal Combi Logic+ C24 fitted in August 2021 in my mid terraced house and I started noticing that it was losing pressure during winter 2021.
I had the first engineer sent by Ideal in March 2022 when the pressure was going down very fast, I could see the gauge going down. He said the boiler was OK, he changed some parts (there was also a whistling sound coming from the flue which was solved) and suggested that the boiler was OK and there must be a leak somewhere in the system. The advice was to wait 6 months and I would see some water escape sign. From the next day the pressure was still going down but way slower (did the leak get smaller? strange)
After that I haven't used the heating much until now, and I had to refill every 2 weeks, waiting for the leak to show up, but nothing yet.
Now I've started using the central heating again and the pressure starts going down again, e.g. from 1bar yesterday morning to 0.6bar now (flow and return temperature ~20C).
It should be a lot of water lost, I struggle to see how I still can't see it anywhere in the house?
I read yesterday that it could be that the PRV is faulty and the water goes outside. I checked and there is water going out.
I called Ideal and they say that it is normal that condensation water goes out and that they are not sending another engineer.
The issue is that both the condensation and PRV relief go into the same pipe outside as you can see from the picture, so I cannot tell if the water going out is from condensation or from the PRV.
Any ways to tell if the water comes out from the PRV? Do you guys have any advice to find the leak?
Thanks and have a great day!
Alessandro