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Boiler pressure too high

  • 19-04-2013 10:51am
    #1
    Lighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    My boiler currently has a pressure reading of 3 bar. When I release the pressure through the overflow valve or by bleeding rads it falls to 2 bar then rises gradually back to 3. I'm wondering if one of the taps underneath should be turned off but I'm unsure to which one to turn.

    A plumber cant come until early next week, so I'm wondering if someone can help me here. I've attached a picture of the underneath of the boiler.

    Thanks

    img20130308162024.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    rightjob!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭rightjob!


    its prob the expansion vessell gone causing the pressure to go back up


  • #3
    Pete67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Pete67


    Who installed that !!??

    Sounds like the boiler and heating system is mains filled, it's possible that the filling valve is passing slightly and over-pressurizing the system. But I would get a RGI out to look at it, the installation looks well dodgy to me - at a minimum the electrics are terrible, and I'm pretty sure that flexis should not be used to install boilers!


  • #4
    sullzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭sullzz


    Wow that is an absolute shocking install , that should be condemned .what boiler is it .


  • #5
    Dtp79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭Dtp79


    sullzz wrote: »
    Wow that is an absolute shocking install , that should be condemned .what boiler is it .

    +1.
    That brutal. I've NEVER seen flexible pipe off a boiler.


  • #6
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,226 ✭✭✭Tow


    Yet the gas company use it to connect up meters...

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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  • #7
    Dtp79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭Dtp79


    Tow wrote: »
    Yet the gas company use it to connect up meters...

    That dosent mean it dosent look as rough as a bears arse


  • #8
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    Ah yes, the good aul red insulating tape. Don't leave home without it.


  • #9
    sullzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭sullzz


    Tow wrote: »
    gas company use it to connect up meters...

    Have you ever seen it fitted at a boiler , or more to the point would you use it or be happy to let someone do a job like that in your house .


  • #10
    JohnnieK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭JohnnieK


    apart from looking sh1te the connections are ok. I would be more concerned about the electrics underneath totally shocking (pardon the pun).


  • #11
    suzainkartic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭suzainkartic


    1. Check presure relief valve
    2. Bleed the Radiators
    If you have done these things but still finds yourself in trouble, then you may contact pro boiler servicing engineer.


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  • #12
    sullzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭sullzz


    suzainkartic wrote: »
    1. Check presure relief valve
    2. Bleed the Radiators
    If you have done these things but still finds yourself in trouble, then you may contact pro boiler servicing engineer.

    Id say they got sorted within the last 5 years:rolleyes:


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