Water Off - Can I use Central Heating?

JT100

I've had to switch off my water as the stopcock is leaking. (landlord has arranged for someone to come tomorrow to fix this)

Can I still use the central heating?

Thank-you

macman

What sort of boiler do you have? If it's a combi, it's fine, as it's a sealed system. If it's a conventional boiler with a header tank in the loft, then theoretically it could run dry-but unlikely to do so overnight if it's full now.

JT100

macman wrote: »

What sort of boiler do you have? If it's a combi, it's fine, as it's a sealed system. If it's a conventional boiler with a header tank in the loft, then theoretically it could run dry-but unlikely to do so overnight if it's full now.

Thank you for your help. It's an old style one with a tank in the loft.

ValHaller

JT100 wrote: »

Can I still use the central heating?

As you have a landlord, ask him and do as he says. In my own house, I would run it if I could open the stopcock at least once every 24 hours.

Biggles

A couple of years ago, I went away for several weeks over the winter and took the advice of my heating engineer.

He advised that I turned off the water at the stopcock and left the heating on 24/7 at a low temperature to protect against frost.

It worked fine.

macman

JT100 wrote: »

Thank you for your help. It's an old style one with a tank in the loft.

A conventional boiler is not 'old style'. You can have a new install with a conventional set up, or a combi.

Ectophile

With a conventional system with a header tank, I can't see any problem running the system for a few days. If the header tank runs dry in that time, then there's a serious leak somewhere in your heating.

JT100

Thanks for all your replies.
Stopcock is fixed and I have a warm house.
Thanks for all the advice.