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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4662  
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Away for a few days and came home to this. The expansion tank in the attic, the ball coack must have stuck, water kept coming into the tank and there is a leak at the fitting to the overflow pipe. All this meant that the overflow worked...into the attic. Found out from the drips into the kitchen! Busy evening !Plumber coming.
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3rd Nov 2023 9:01am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4662
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I deliberately put no insulation below the attic tanks but in this case the water travelled along the plaster board and beneath the joists. Luckily we have a crack in the ceiling which is how we knew we had a problem by the drips! Anyway the plumber landed at 8.30am this morning so we are sorted. Just getting things dried out up there now!! Unlike problems with modern cars it was easily found
 and remedied  1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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3rd Nov 2023 10:30am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4662
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Update. Well the plumber landed at 8.30 this morning. Issue sorted with the tank.
Now it is just drying out. The cost of the plumber was ....€65 (£57). This included the call out, replacing the ballcock and the joint for the overflow pipe on the tank. He called in on the way to another job. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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3rd Nov 2023 10:41am |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 1052  
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Very decent price! Sounds like the damage was reasonably controlled. I rented out a house in the UK, when the whole attic tank solution started leaking I had it all changed out to a combi hot water/heater unit with a pressure vessels and hot water on mains pressure. All worked out fine for many years then sold the house.
Here in France it's all electric, more expensive (although electricity is cheaper in France) but you loose all the gas/boiler related cost which easily adds up to euro 1000 a year excl any breakdown or depreciation. We also have a woodpellet burner which is relatively cheap heat. |
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3rd Nov 2023 2:58pm |
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