I Think I May Have a Leak > How To Shut Off Water Properly.

ThisIsWeird

A cracking result indeed!

JohnB47

Still confused about the leak. Where was it and how was it fixed?

scoot65

JohnB47 said:

Still confused about the leak. Where was it and how was it fixed?

The muffled hissing noises magically disappeared once the boiler's water pressure had been topped up. My neighbour mate said that it could possibly have been air in the system making that noise ion the pipes. ....... Definitely now that the pressure is correct in the boiler and it's producing hot water again, the muffled hissing sound has gone!!

Also the leak that my neighbour and I saw at one of the pipes going into the bottom of the boiler, when I said this to the engineer he stated that that was impossible as the pipe in question is a gas pipe not water. He said that the water we saw could have a build up of condensation which then overflowed down the inside of the boiler following the route of the gas pipe. I'm thinking that possibly the water / condensation has overflowed, gone down the outside of the rear of the pipe and had then pooled around the pipe's bottom fitting making it look as though it was seeping up from the fitting. This is just a guess on my part.

Either way everything's bone dry now and working as it should. Obviously I'll keep an eye on things for the few days.