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cammy0102
Hi guys,
After some quick advice as my builder's plumber is about to finish hte job.
Basically I had a leak in the central heating system (it's all brand new and the combi boiler started losing water pressure few months ago and it gradually got worse) after months of looking for it, I think tey'v efound the issue. It was a small leak under the bath and yesterday when they removed the bath and dug out to expose the pipes they foudn the leak.
The leak was in a T junction of one of the big copper pipes (22mm I think) and the drain (to empty water in central heating pipes) going outside the bathroom/house. This new plumber used by my builder/contractor yesterday created this apparatus to connect a compression meter and left it overnight. This morning we found there was no pressure loss in the combi boiler (phew!) and the plumber said the compression test passed. So we know that small leak was what was causing the loss in water pressure.
Anyway this morning the plumber left pretty much all of the apparatus but I am not entirely happy with it so wanted hear expert opinion. There are lots of joints in there (probalby 5,6) plus he's got joints going from big diameter pipe (probably 22mm) to small diameter copper pipe (probably 15mm) back to big diameter pipe. I've read that leaks are likely to happen in joints and the more joints you have surely the more chance of future leaks?
What do you think of this work? See picture attached. You can see how it was before and how it is now.
I probably prefer it to one straight pipe like before (but without the leak obviously)
Thanks guys.
http://*********/a/rPVWp
After some quick advice as my builder's plumber is about to finish hte job.
Basically I had a leak in the central heating system (it's all brand new and the combi boiler started losing water pressure few months ago and it gradually got worse) after months of looking for it, I think tey'v efound the issue. It was a small leak under the bath and yesterday when they removed the bath and dug out to expose the pipes they foudn the leak.
The leak was in a T junction of one of the big copper pipes (22mm I think) and the drain (to empty water in central heating pipes) going outside the bathroom/house. This new plumber used by my builder/contractor yesterday created this apparatus to connect a compression meter and left it overnight. This morning we found there was no pressure loss in the combi boiler (phew!) and the plumber said the compression test passed. So we know that small leak was what was causing the loss in water pressure.
Anyway this morning the plumber left pretty much all of the apparatus but I am not entirely happy with it so wanted hear expert opinion. There are lots of joints in there (probalby 5,6) plus he's got joints going from big diameter pipe (probably 22mm) to small diameter copper pipe (probably 15mm) back to big diameter pipe. I've read that leaks are likely to happen in joints and the more joints you have surely the more chance of future leaks?
What do you think of this work? See picture attached. You can see how it was before and how it is now.
I probably prefer it to one straight pipe like before (but without the leak obviously)
Thanks guys.
http://*********/a/rPVWp
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