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Apr 16th, 2005, 11:59am
 
When we bought our present bungalow 18 years ago, all the floors had to come out due to Red Ash infil (failed sulphur test) The hardcore was replaced with MOT (stone to me!) and the floors all re-concreted/screeded.
Obviously we were not living there at the time!
However, all the heating pipes were buried in the floor originally, and are the same now.
During recent work, I had occasion to isolate the cold water feed to the storage tank and CH header tank in the loft, it was then that I noticed that the header was gradually emptying (down a couple of inches in about 4 hours). It's not rocket science to figure out that I have a leak, but having checked all over the house, there are no damp patches in the floors etc. - Is there any way of finding the leak? the pipes are about 2-3" down in the screed, I think (they were lagged with something similar to hessian with a clear plastic overwrap if memory serves correctly). Or, am I going to have to re-plumb the whole lot "on the surface"?
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Re: water loss
Reply #1 - Apr 16th, 2005, 12:25pm
 
WC overflows?

Leak between primary hot and cold in the H/W tank?
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Reply #2 - Apr 16th, 2005, 4:02pm
 
Nothing on any of the overflows and no discolouration of the hot water (which I would have expected had there been a leak in the coil within the copper tank)
I can only think that the water is leaking from CH pipework undr the floor - possibly under the membrane? as there is no sign of damp anywhere. If it is under the membrane, it could be percolating away through the hardcor - 9 feet deep in places!
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Reply #3 - Apr 16th, 2005, 4:05pm
 
the first job would be to test the cylinder, had you a leak in the heating pipework the header ball valve would be running continuosly
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Reply #4 - Apr 16th, 2005, 4:08pm
 
How wouild I go about testing the cylinder Scruff?
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Reply #5 - Apr 16th, 2005, 4:13pm
 
Initially you could fill the system up and observe what happens for say 4hours with the ballvalves tied up, note any change in the water level of the header tank.

then open the hot taps and drain the storage tank, if the coil has gone the header tank will also drop

Best done with the system cold.
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Reply #6 - Apr 16th, 2005, 4:42pm
 
Many thanks!
- I'll do that and go from there.
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Reply #7 - Apr 16th, 2005, 4:49pm
 
Dont draw any water from cylinder or storage tank when doing the test
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Reply #8 - Apr 16th, 2005, 5:08pm
 
OK.
The only things fed by the storage tank are the feed to the cylinder and the bath tap. so, no problem.
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