Hi
My parents late 80's and early 90's live in a 3 bedroom semi. Ideal logic 30 combi boiler fitted in the bathroom provides heat and hot water. Radiators and original pipe work were put in by Dad 40 - 50 years ago, when it started life as a solid fuel driven system.
By the end of the winter in about March the system started to lose pressure, every 7-10 days, I had to open the filling loop and top it up to 1.5bar. In May June I got a local plumber, heating engineer to come and service the boiler and fit a filter. He said that it was a system with a lot of compression joints and that there was no obvious leak.
In the last couple of weeks as its got colder and they have started to put the heating back on again the pressure drops to zero in 24 hours. Still no obvious sign of leak on the pipe work that you can see or wet patches on ceilings.
Is there anything obvious that I need to be looking for. Is leak more likely to be on the hot water or heating side. How much water is likeley to be leaking between top ups, it takes about 1-2 minuets to bring it up to 1.5bar.
Thanks for reading.
Sticky.
My parents late 80's and early 90's live in a 3 bedroom semi. Ideal logic 30 combi boiler fitted in the bathroom provides heat and hot water. Radiators and original pipe work were put in by Dad 40 - 50 years ago, when it started life as a solid fuel driven system.
By the end of the winter in about March the system started to lose pressure, every 7-10 days, I had to open the filling loop and top it up to 1.5bar. In May June I got a local plumber, heating engineer to come and service the boiler and fit a filter. He said that it was a system with a lot of compression joints and that there was no obvious leak.
In the last couple of weeks as its got colder and they have started to put the heating back on again the pressure drops to zero in 24 hours. Still no obvious sign of leak on the pipe work that you can see or wet patches on ceilings.
Is there anything obvious that I need to be looking for. Is leak more likely to be on the hot water or heating side. How much water is likeley to be leaking between top ups, it takes about 1-2 minuets to bring it up to 1.5bar.
Thanks for reading.
Sticky.