UPDATE: can you use central heating when rad pipe leaking?

suered

iamc.... - i will be watching bg bloke to learn for next time- figure that if i'm paying for homecare they can actually do something for it!

keystone

Where's it leaking from? The valve spindle? or the nut which connects the valve to the pipework? or the nut which connects the valve to the rad?

Its quite DIYable but I guess you are corecct that if you are paying for BG then use them.

Cheers

macman

Turn that rad off until the CH engineer turns up?

suered

having the heating on did seem to slow down the rate of drippage a bit -and will use engineer as a teacher.

thanks all for the comments and suggestions

suered

quick update: (quote) my gland had gone (unquote) - and there was me thinking it was just that time of life :rotfl:

So I've been drained and reglanded (!) and nice and warm again.

Again, thank you all for the suggestions and help.

keystone

So it was coming out of the top of the spindle then?

Cheers

dave82_2

We have the same issue at the moment. If you CH is presurised (combi boiler or megaflow) you need to make sure that the presure on the boiler is in it's optimum operating range. If it drops below a certain bar the boiler should cut out however worst case I guess it could knacker your boiler.

EDIT : P.S. just realised that you have your problem reolved but will leave the above for others incase they find it useful.

suered

Keystone - yes, i think it was the spindle, (whatever is under the plastic cover valve that isn't the thermostatic one) although the word the BG guy used was definitely "gland" - I have a new plastic outer thingy (which they are now stamping British Gas all over - he apologised profusely for the nastiness of it), and presumably something new on the inside as well.

dave82 - yes, good point - learnt that in the past from experience, so now I periodically check the pressure and refill as necessary.

Thanks again