Good morning from snow free West Country!
My son who lives in East Midlands in a three storey modern house has got a lot of snow and very low temperatures.
His combi boiler is playing up, British Gas have fitted a new circuit board but are coming back because now boiler is running intermittently.
Last night on returning home he gave it a go and it did fire up so decided to run a hot bath. After some time he heard dripping water and it was coming from bottom of boiler!
He switched everything off and checked what he could,pressure was fine and no other leaks found. Eventually the dripping stopped. Boiler is on top floor with vent in the roof and not the wall. Is it possible for the incoming combustion air to condense in these very cold conditions and then drip down into boiler? I can think of nothing else.
Having said that I know it could be a blocked condensate drain but I thought this would stop the boiler? It was still running when he first found it. He knows very little about the pipe work and I have never seen it.
My son who lives in East Midlands in a three storey modern house has got a lot of snow and very low temperatures.
His combi boiler is playing up, British Gas have fitted a new circuit board but are coming back because now boiler is running intermittently.
Last night on returning home he gave it a go and it did fire up so decided to run a hot bath. After some time he heard dripping water and it was coming from bottom of boiler!
He switched everything off and checked what he could,pressure was fine and no other leaks found. Eventually the dripping stopped. Boiler is on top floor with vent in the roof and not the wall. Is it possible for the incoming combustion air to condense in these very cold conditions and then drip down into boiler? I can think of nothing else.
Having said that I know it could be a blocked condensate drain but I thought this would stop the boiler? It was still running when he first found it. He knows very little about the pipe work and I have never seen it.
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