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Post by Ratae on Jul 22, 2018 21:25:03 GMT
Joy! came back home to a leaking tank connector up in't' loft. I've been bailing out up there and it's f*';:""g hot up there. e&oe...You have my sympathy....been there myself.
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Post by nob on Jul 23, 2018 5:59:00 GMT
Joy! came back home to a leaking tank connector up in't' loft. I've been bailing out up there and it's f*';:""g hot up there. e&oe...Heat related problem?
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Post by banjo on Jul 23, 2018 7:22:03 GMT
I suspected a leaking water tank. It turned out to be a slow drip leak on inlet valve tank connector. Normally OK if someone's at home using water regularly. The water level went above tank connector.
I had heard arcing in the ceiling rose late Saturday night, so I turned off the electric to the upatairs lamps and went to bed thinking it was a wiring fault in the ceiling rose. In morning, the leak had been dripping through the ceiling rose. I have so much junk littered around that room that it's difficult to tread. Fate decreed that the drips filled a plastic tray on the floor! So there is a god after all!
Now to replace the ball valve assembly and the hot water supply valve while I'm at it because that has seized due to hard water. I think I'll re-route the overflow to a more sensible route too. And a new jacket for the tank. And a lid for the tank. And...
It's bally hot up there and even more junk.
e&oe...
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Post by nob on Jul 23, 2018 8:57:53 GMT
Not too big a mess then thank goodness and an easy fix.
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Post by banjo on Jul 23, 2018 11:15:03 GMT
Spoke too soon. Multiple hairline cracks around the tank floor curved corners. Tank out now and cut into two to get down through hatch. (Thankfully only fibreglass- and even better- the new ones are plastic.) I used a jig saw. The blade fell out but didn't snap (only blade I had). It's flippin' hot up there, and I cannot have the loft lights on because they're on the upstairs lighting star system. That and all the junk I'm tripping over. You can't stand up straight even in the middle at the apex. I'll have to leave off with this because it's getting to be like facepage. I'll let you know when I can have a barf and then it *will* be like facepage!
I can hear Rats laughing ;<D
e&oe...
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Post by Ratae on Jul 23, 2018 20:19:44 GMT
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Post by banjo on Jul 23, 2018 21:16:20 GMT
Job done. Air locks in both LP lines from the tank. Hot was easy- short the kitchen taps with silicone beer hose. Cold was a problem. Solved by removing shower head from bath taps and sticking my finger into the open end of the hose. Second nature really. ;<D
Still have to fit the overflow (tomorrow) and check out the celing rose before turning on the lighting circuit.
Plastic tanks are a mixed blessing, you really do have to align the plumbing carefully or the plastic takes up the slack. That's a time bomb.
Cheers D, means a lot!
e&oe...
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Post by nob on Jul 24, 2018 6:53:19 GMT
My guess the rose will be bone dry now. Well done sorted.
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Post by pierre on Jul 26, 2018 15:41:14 GMT
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Post by Ratae on Jul 26, 2018 17:10:29 GMT
Pete, I had the same thing appear a few weeks ago. If I remember correctly, even if it is genuine it doesn't work in the UK.
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Post by sleepyjohn on Jul 27, 2018 11:20:47 GMT
This is genuine, but you have to live within 30 miles of a "tower", which seem to be in short supply inthe UK. certainly none of them in deepest rural wales!!
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Post by pierre on Jul 27, 2018 15:04:00 GMT
I wondered about the tower thing,John.It is just that there are so many "aids" for getting programmes which are not that straightforward.I have a Smart Samsung Tv,and last year someone showed me how to watch the Ireland v All Blacks match in Chicago.Then I also managed to watch a game my grandson was playing in--Northumbria Uni v Durham Uni.It was midweek in the evening and I got it on channel 95 (a standard definition channel) Aw well...
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Post by nob on Aug 2, 2018 15:16:21 GMT
B&Q are doing away with the Wednesday 10% discount on everything and limiting it to gardening products only.
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Post by nob on Aug 21, 2018 7:26:19 GMT
Been to Corfu its very poor now I don't know if they have done it but the EU have imposed austerity for the loans their debt and interest they have to pay back to the EU is crippling them. Theres now a tax on the days you stay and depending on the room and hotel it ranges from 50 cents to 4 Euro a day.
Went to Albania for the day, not what I thought it would be some beggars but 80% of cars there are Mercs really changed my view of the country.
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Post by Ratae on Aug 21, 2018 21:20:43 GMT
Been to Corfu its very poor now I don't know if they have done it but the EU have imposed austerity for the loans their debt and interest they have to pay back to the EU is crippling them. Theres now a tax on the days you stay and depending on the room and hotel it ranges from 50 cents to 4 Euro a day. Went to Albania for the day, not what I thought it would be some beggars but 80% of cars there are Mercs really changed my view of the country. Hmmm...my guess is that those Albanian Mercs were until recently sitting on English, Kraut etc drives until they suddenly disappeared.
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