Boiler losing pressure in Brownhills? We find the leak rather than refilling it. Clayhanger, Walsall Wood, Pelsall and Shire Oak.
Topping the pressure up is a five-second job. That is exactly why it gets done for years instead of the leak being found.
The ex-council semis and bungalows around Brownhills tend to have long horizontal pipe runs and plenty of joints. A system that loses pressure slowly is losing it somewhere along them. Or it is losing it out of the relief pipe on the outside wall. That version costs you nothing but a part.
A wet or limescaled copper pipe poking through the wall means the expansion vessel or the relief valve. Nothing under your floor is wet. It is worth checking before you worry.
The post-war stock here was plumbed in long straight runs under floors and through cupboards. More joints means more places to weep, and they are traceable.
On a bungalow the pipework often runs in the void with no room below to show a stain. A pressure test on the boiler side tells us more than looking does.
Fresh water every month rusts the system from the inside. Finding the leak once is cheaper than a pump, a valve and a power flush later.
A photo of the gauge and one of the pipe outside. Tell us if the house is a bungalow. Say how often you top up and whether it drops faster in winter.
It is common, because the system runs hotter and longer. A weep that hides in summer starts showing. It is still a leak, just a seasonal one you can see.
You can, and plenty of people do. The risk is that a slow weep under a floor gets months to do damage you cannot see. The constant fresh water also sludges the radiators.
Then we say so rather than start lifting floors on a hunch. Isolating the boiler from the system narrows it to one side. That alone usually settles what to do next.
Allow one to two hours for the diagnosis. Most leaks at a valve or vessel are fixed in the same visit. A joint in a floor void takes longer, and you hear that first.
Where the water is escaping and how hard it is to reach. A valve is quick. A buried joint costs more in time. You get the cost for your leak before work begins.
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