Central heating seems to have leaked

No water in the boiler circuit. No evidence of water leaking anywhere except the lights and sockets downstairs have tripped. However when I try to refil using the refill loop, there is the sound of a lot of water splosing above the kitchen ceiling, but nothing in the living room which is above the kitchen.

Is this an emergency? Does home insurance cover this kind of thing usually?

You may have Home Emergency Cover on your insurance policy or via a Bank Account. Check your policy.

Emergency people calling in the morning.

Weird though – we can turn the refil tap on full blast, there’s a lot of water going into the system then out somewhere that we can’t see.

I wonder if next door are in?

Mine gradually loses water, I’ve been here over a year and still no sign of a leak or any water marks anywhere

How can you trace where it might be?

Just keep putting water in till you see it come out somewhere.

Please dont but if you do set some go pros up about the place to catch the moment a ceiling comes down 🙂

There’s the sound of many many gallons of water just above the kitchen ceiling… Impossible for it to be accumulating there, must be going somewhere…

Woman next door works late, I swear she’s in for a shock when she comes home. Can’t see any water trickling out of the front door.

The ceiling falls down after it has dried out a bit. 🙂

Oh the nievity.

Celing on the floor yet?

I’m sorry, this user can’t come to the keyboard right now…

(please tell me you did the sensible thing and eventually drilled a relief hole in it)

There’s the sound of many many gallons of water just above the kitchen ceiling… Impossible for it to be accumulating there, must be going somewhere…

Oh, you’d be surprised. Our living room & utility room ceiling gave way last December after what appears to have been many months of a leak from the hot water feed to our bath tap.

Insurance should sort it without fuss (unless you’re unfortunate enough to have taken out cover with a company whose name is an anagram of Esuer…)

Is this an emergency?

Call 999 straight away.

No, ceiling still in place, no water evident anywhere.

Plumber people on their way in a few hours.

Boiler off, electrics off. Buckets, battery drill, put a hole in that ceiling and let it drain.

have the heavens opened yet ? or have next door run out screaming that they are wet …..

Arnt new(ish) builds great 😉

Cos old houses never go wrong, do they?

no one said that….

no one said that….

That never stopped an argument on STW before….

That never stopped an argument on STW before….

Oh yes it did!

It can drain via the cavity walls if the cavity is exposed

hes behind you !*

*sorry just carrying on the pantomime.

Apparently the water was/is collecting above the garage ceiling. Which is good and bad – easy to fix, but I’ll have to shift 8 bikes out of the way somehow, I don’t want ferrnox all over them. Garage door is electric, and does not currently work very well.

jools182 – Member

Mine gradually loses water, I’ve been here over a year and still no sign of a leak or any water marks anywhere

Check if your rad fittings are leaking by wrapping some paper towel around it and running the heating for a while. Otherwise the water can evaporate as soon as it hits the hot pipe and leave virtually no mark.

In a pressurised system you can lose water without seeing it through the safety group thing. There’s a safety valve which has a drain pipe leading to the sewers so when it leaks there’s no trace.

Not your problem, Molgrips.

I did wonder if one of the kids had been playing with the knobs to bleed the water out into the safety drain thingy. But no.

warm again at casa molgrips ?

Nope.

Plumber came, stroked his chin for a bit and then said he’d have to go and talk to the insurance company and he’d be in touch in 24 hours – he hasn’t. Apparently they’re not sure if they can fix it on insurance because it might be difficult. Wtf? What kind of insurance is that?

Anyway the water appears to have run down into a joist space above the garage and into the cavity between our house and next door. The question is, how to find out where the break in the pipe actually is? Looks like it would be related to the rad at the back of the living room, but under the floor. I can get access from the garage easily enough, IF that’s where the break is – could be somewhere else upstream.

Leccy’s back on though.

Apparently, it IS covered. Cheers, Barclays 🙂