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Gazman44
Firstly great place for plumbing idiots like me to get answers!
We discovered a leak above our airing cupboard, after much investigation and tearing up loft insulation, ripping off pipe cladding etc offending pipe and location found.
The leak is coming from the screw part of an isolator valve on a pipe coming from the smaller of the two tanks in the loft (which I believe from my reading here is a the central heating expansion tank).
The screw has give in it and pushing it inwards makes the leak worse, equally turning it to (what should be ) the closed position make it worse too. If I turn it hard to be parallel with the pipe (open I assume) the leaking stops.
Presumably regardless of this stopping the leak the isolator valve will need to be replaced.
What I would like to know is the valve open or closed as I can't figure out where that pipe goes, it by passes the airing cupboard and heads straight off downstairs into the cavity, last thing I want to do is damage the central heating if a valve is closed which should be open or vice versa!
Now I know changing this should be a simple job (please read line one) but typically how long would it take a plumber to do this sort of job?
Any assistance happily received....
We discovered a leak above our airing cupboard, after much investigation and tearing up loft insulation, ripping off pipe cladding etc offending pipe and location found.
The leak is coming from the screw part of an isolator valve on a pipe coming from the smaller of the two tanks in the loft (which I believe from my reading here is a the central heating expansion tank).
The screw has give in it and pushing it inwards makes the leak worse, equally turning it to (what should be ) the closed position make it worse too. If I turn it hard to be parallel with the pipe (open I assume) the leaking stops.
Presumably regardless of this stopping the leak the isolator valve will need to be replaced.
What I would like to know is the valve open or closed as I can't figure out where that pipe goes, it by passes the airing cupboard and heads straight off downstairs into the cavity, last thing I want to do is damage the central heating if a valve is closed which should be open or vice versa!
Now I know changing this should be a simple job (please read line one) but typically how long would it take a plumber to do this sort of job?
Any assistance happily received....
