Combi boiler keeps losing pressure over a week.

[yaserg]

Hi All

I am enquiring on behalf of my mother. She has a combo boiler installed and its now been losing pressure every week for the last month or so.

There is no obvious leaks around the radiators.

She had someone from her home insurance home emergency team come and have a look. My mother said the guy came and told her that the combi boiler should be on all the time and because its not on there is an issue with wiring and he is not going to look at it further.

What are your thoughts? Should this be the case and shall i get a gas engineer to have a look at it?

Thanks for your help

Regards

 

[Riley]

Do away with emergency cover and get a local GSR engineer to take a look. Problem is that insurance companies have set protocol so if something is outside this they walk away

 

[yaserg]

hi great will do that. And do you think that the combi boiler should be on all the time as in switched on but not fired up as he suggested?

thanks

 

[Last Plumber]

Leave the power to it on, it needs permanent live for certain functions.

 

[Riley]

:iagree: leave it on it won't cost much to leave it on standby

 

[yaserg]

Sorry I may have not put the situation correctly.

I'm not switching the boiler on or off. When I look at the boiler when there is no hot water use or heating then its off. When the heating is turned on or hot water being used the display comes on and shows increase in temp and fires up. Should this be the case?

Thanks

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Sorry I may have not put the situation correctly.

I'm not switching the boiler on or off. When I look at the boiler when there is no hot water use or heating then its off. When the heating is turned on or hot water being used the display comes on and shows increase in temp and fires up. Should this be the case?

Thanks

Yes sounds like it's working as it should be , any pipes in concrete floors ?