Hi, I have been under the floorboards today and think I may have disturbed an old pipe. It is now dripping - 1 drip per second. It is a pipe for the central heating. It is on the ground floor so just dripping into the ground below. Is this something that needs to be fixed urgently or can I leave it for a while? Thanks Matt
Thanks All. I'm getting a plumber in in a couple of months to fit a couple of radiators. Could it wait till then so he could do both jobs at once. I could keep filling the combi boiler up in the meantime. It is only dripping into the ground below.
Fit the emergency fitting as above. You don't want to keep putting fresh water into ur system, it causes corrosion. Then get fixed proper when plumber comes end.
Do not know the op skill level to do the proper job, and might have got him out of a fix in the short term, would have thought plumbers hard to get at this time of year at short notice
Very useful bits of kit those. I keep a 22 and 15mm one in my toolbox at all times, they have got me out of a few mistakes
Done this myself in my old job hospital maintenance, when isolation was a problem and on call, with intention of doing the proper job in the daytime, needless to say sometimes the temp repair lasted years
Matt states it's a heating pipe, so it'll be a heated swimming pool! Just don't complain about the colour of the water....
The leak is on a joint. It's not on a straight pipe so I can't use that bit of kit. I can't quite remember what the joint looked like as I was crawling under the floorboards at the time. I guess I'll have to pull up the floorboards above the joint and have a better look.
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