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System boiler pressure.
westy23
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I had a new Bosch system boiler installed last April along with a new cylinder and radiators and needed to top the pressure up 3 times over a 6 month period as it was losing about half a bar every couple of months, was told by the installer it was normal as the system has a auto air vent and it would settle down eventually once all the air had been purged.
Now with the heating on it needs topping up again. .
No obvious leak anywhere (yet)
Have I been given a load of flannel?
Posh way of saying bulshit.
Now with the heating on it needs topping up again. .
No obvious leak anywhere (yet)
Have I been given a load of flannel?
Posh way of saying bulshit.
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Half a bar every couple of months is quite a small top up.0
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I had a new Bosch system boiler installed last April along with a new cylinder and radiators and needed to top the pressure up 3 times over a 6 month period as it was losing about half a bar every couple of months, was told by the installer it was normal as the system has a auto air vent and it would settle down eventually once all the air had been purged.
Now with the heating on it needs topping up again. .
No obvious leak anywhere (yet)
Have I been given a load of flannel?
Posh way of saying bulshit.
Just to clarify. My pressure gauge is an analogue dial, calibrated in bars of pressure in tenths of a bar increments. My pressure is normally set to 1.5 bar.
When you say your system loses half a bar every couple of months do you mean 0.5 bar (ie from, say, 1.5 bar to 1 bar)? If so, that seems a bit much to my inexpert eye. But if you mean it loses half of a tenth of a bar, that's nothing to worry about.0 -
I wouldn't worry about it unless it got worse, a top up every couple of months is not a huge inconvenience.For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.0
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Yes 0.5 bar drop per month approximately.0
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I'm sure I remember topping up ours a lot in the first year we had ours put in. (We also have a Worcester) And also having to bleed the last radiator a lot too. It settled down after that and now I hardly ever top it up.0
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