Help, lost pressure on my boiler

keystone

OK this is going to go roiund in circles if we are not careful.

Take a pic or two of what you have under the boiler including both ends of the filling loop.

Host the images on tinypic or imageshack or whatever and post the link(s) back here. Renove the http bit from the links first though because you don't have a high enough post count to post full links just yet.

Edit - I see you tried to upload a pic. Do as above and we can see it.

Cheers

Ape_3

keystone wrote: »

OK this is going to go roiund in circles if we are not careful.

Take a pic or two of what you have under the boiler including both ends of the filling loop.

Host the images on tinypic or imageshack or whatever and post the link(s) back here. Renove the http bit from the links first though because you don't have a high enough post count to post full links just yet.

Edit - I see you tried to upload a pic. Do as above and we can see it.

Cheers

Here goes:

[IMG]://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j48/ape76/IMAG0015.jpg[/IMG]

just removed the http bit between the: and //

keystone

OK this should be it then:

keystone

First of all the brass double check valve (the one with the hex shaped head on it) has nothing that can be adjusted so if you've undone the hex shaped bolt do it up again.

Is the corroded valve below the check valve open?

Edit - dont touch the gas valve next to it on the left LoL. I've got to go and collect my daughter - back in 30 mins or so but you may have solved it by then.
Cheers

Ape_3

keystone wrote: »

First of all the brass double check valve (the one with the hex shaped head on it) has nothing that can be adjusted so if you've undone the hex shaped bolt do it up again.

Is the corroded valve below the check valve open?

The hex shaped one thats attached to the other braided hose?, only thing I have moved so far is that black tap thats attached to the braided hose, I've touched !!!!!! all else as I know absolutely nothing about them and didn't want to make matters worse lol. With it actually gaining pressure for a short while and then losing mean that re pressurising wouldn't work anyway though?. Oh and thanks for all your help so far, I'm like a fish out of water with this stuff, give me a mountain bike or PC and I'm fine but this kind of thing, I even had to look online to bleed a radiator lol

Ape_3

keystone wrote: »

First of all the brass double check valve (the one with the hex shaped head on it) has nothing that can be adjusted so if you've undone the hex shaped bolt do it up again.

Is the corroded valve below the check valve open?

Edit - dont touch the gas valve next to it on the left LoL. I've got to go and collect my daughter - back in 30 mins or so but you may have solved it by then.
Cheers

Hi mate, just wanted to say thankyou for all your help, eventually managed to get a friend of a friend who's a plumber to come and take a look. Managed to re pressurise the boiler but still wasn't working and turned out to be something to do with a valve sticking as well. Its working for now, but think were going to invest in a smaller and better boiler as soon as we can as its not been healthy for a while now. Thanks again mate.

Ape_3

And its happened again :-( The chap who came out re pressureised it and was something to do with a valve or something sticking, I think this is what happened last year when somebody had to put some olive oil on the valve to get it going again. I know its not ideal but can't afford a new boiler right now, is there anybody that can help again. I need to know how to re pressurise the system again and where to find the valve that needs loosening up. Once Christmas is done its going to be replaced but just need to keep it going in the mean time.

macman

If it's just the pressure relief valve sticking then it hardly merits a change of boiler...

Ape_3

macman wrote: »

If it's just the pressure relief valve sticking then it hardly merits a change of boiler...

To be fair its getting on a bit and been told we could get something much smaller and economical, but for now it would be good to get it working. Do you think this is what the issue is then and if so any advice on how to sort it even if its just a temp solution as its not very warm here lol

macman

I'm not qualified to comment. That's why I just said that if it's just a relief valve replacement then I doubt if that part costs more than a few quid, plus say £60 call out. A new boiler and install will be upwards of £1500 I guess.
Yes, a new one will be more economic, but even still it could take you a decade to recoup the outlay.