hot water press pipe leaking

torrevieja

hi folks any advice on an old pipe in hot press im sure its a valve its slowly drippeing has a wheel valve i think on top maybe its for bleeding piped not sure but water coming from it dropping down and then i noticed white string coming through im trying to get photos up but not to sure

punisher5112

torrevieja wrote: »

hi folks any advice on an old pipe in hot press im sure its a valve its slowly drippeing has a wheel valve i think on top maybe its for bleeding piped not sure but water coming from it dropping down and then i noticed white string coming through im trying to get photos up but not to sure

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VeryRapidSkoda

Hi, I just want to join this thread as I have similar issue. It looks like water is leaking from top of copper cylinder.
Is there a way to turn water off to cylinder to prevent leak but keep water flowing to rest of house for washing machine , dishwasher etc.

Any idea roughly how much to replace cylinder? Any info be great thanks.

BDI

You can turn it off usually and only lose hot water.

A pipe will usually come from your attic tank and down into the bottom of the cylinder. This will have a gate valve usually somewhere in the hot press. You will know it’s the right one if when you turn on a hot water tap the water stops coming out after about 30 or so seconds.

VeryRapidSkoda

BDI wrote: »

You can turn it off usually and only lose hot water.

A pipe will usually come from your attic tank and down into the bottom of the cylinder. This will have a gate valve usually somewhere in the hot press. You will know it’s the right one if when you turn on a hot water tap the water stops coming out after about 30 or so seconds.

Great thanks, there were 3 valves on different pipes, I turned them all off to make sure and then there was no water in any taps except main cold tap in kitchen. So I will look for the valve that you said and turn the other ones back on at a time except that one.

BDI

Or you could turn one on and see what tap has water come out of it and by process of elimination work out which is which.

The little pipe of the three is usually central heating and you should probably leave it as it was before you got there.

VeryRapidSkoda

BDI wrote: »

Or you could turn one on and see what tap has water come out of it and by process of elimination work out which is which.

The little pipe of the three is usually central heating and you should probably leave it as it was before you got there.

All in hot press :
1. I turned the valve back in for the smallest pipe (central heating)
2. Found and turned off hot water taps
3. Found and turned on cold water taps

I'll keep an eye to see if any more leaking starts. But if it is definitely the top of copper cylinder then turning off the hot water pipe should help? As I guess if no water is going in then it won't be flowing out the top pipe?

BDI

Yeah goes in the bottom cold then comes out the top hot.
It will leak because it is full of water but only until the leak is higher than the water level.

VeryRapidSkoda

BDI wrote: »

Yeah goes in the bottom cold then comes out the top hot.
It will leak because it is full of water but only until the leak is higher than the water level.

thanks for your help much appreciated