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It has to be going somewhere!
The boiler pressure drops by about 0.5Bar every few weeks. I've looked at the radiators for signs of small leaks but I haven't been inside the boiler as yet because I only recently terminated a maintenance contract with British Gas. BG were not interested in a leak chasing exercise.
The techniques that I've read about include thermal imaging and gas tracing, both of which would involve buying equipment. I have heard of acoustic methods for detecting leaks in underground supply pipes but I bet that would need a healthy "hiss"; my leak must be a lot slower than that.
Has anyone in PF ever had and solved this problem? There are companies that say they'll do it for upwards of 65 GBP per hour but it can be a pretty open ended business, involving well over 1k GBP. I'd like to get better informed about it before shelling out on a process than must take a lot of punters for a ride.
The boiler pressure drops by about 0.5Bar every few weeks. I've looked at the radiators for signs of small leaks but I haven't been inside the boiler as yet because I only recently terminated a maintenance contract with British Gas. BG were not interested in a leak chasing exercise.
The techniques that I've read about include thermal imaging and gas tracing, both of which would involve buying equipment. I have heard of acoustic methods for detecting leaks in underground supply pipes but I bet that would need a healthy "hiss"; my leak must be a lot slower than that.
Has anyone in PF ever had and solved this problem? There are companies that say they'll do it for upwards of 65 GBP per hour but it can be a pretty open ended business, involving well over 1k GBP. I'd like to get better informed about it before shelling out on a process than must take a lot of punters for a ride.