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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by rigwrecker
its probably your expansion vessel fooked top up the water to 1.5 bar click heating on and watch the guage if it goes up to 3 bar it will dump out the water through a pressure relief valve and u will need to top up again this will mean the vessel is knackered u might be lucky and the vessel only needs pumped upthere is a valve like a tyre valve on the top off the vessel vessel is prob behind the boiler so u will find the valve ontop off the boiler at the back take off cover and push pin if u get water vessel is done if just air use a pump to pump up a bit failing that the release valve may be passing
Cheers Mate, boiler man been today whilst i was at work and it is the expansion part - £190 for it fixing but cant get part till Tuesday etc...and no the overflows ok.

Im wondering if i ought to change the boiler as this is about 10yr old now, how much is a decent combi fitted ?
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