Hi Joe!
As you've not found any system leaks as such, I would think its highly likely you have not got any.
In any case you wouldn't want to be lifting floor boards, only to find the problem was elsewhere.
So unless there is evidence of a leak (and also taking the easier option) I would want to ensure the expansion vessel and the PRV are functioning correctly.
You say they have been checked and are OK, so I have to question how you checked them.
It's well known that PRVs once opened may not seal again properly. Dirt gets trapped on the sealing face and allows water to escape. Obviously the amount that escapes will depend on the pressure and the time period.
Cleaning the PRV is an option, but not as good as replacing it with a new one.
If a PRV is replaced, perhaps its better not to operate it by hand, otherwise you could be back to square one.
A plastic bag secured to the discharge pipe will collect water if that's where it coming from.
The root cause of this type of problem stems from the expansion vessel.
You set the water pressure at say 1bar and it rises to 2bar and that's OK providing the vessel was full with air.
But with a vessel already half full with water and only half the volume of air, then the pressure doubles.
See what happens now, It's now 1bar rising to 4bar. PRV kicks in at 3bar.
So its not just checking the air pressure alone. The requirement is also for the vessel to not contain any water and I believe this is what misleads us.
Hi Mandate, I did as you said, disconnected pipe from PRV and put receptacle under it, in a plastic bag.No leak at all.Topped it up to 1 bar, 3 days later, no water in receptacle/Bag.Also no rise in pressure, when CH is on, 24/7 at present, 0.5 bar cold, rising to 1 bar hot, 50 degrees, lowest boiler setting.BUT, lost 0.5 bar = ??? water0.5 litre???I may add that, whenever I have had Homeserve out to Repair it,once this year,twice last, they always drain boiler using PRV, and it used to leak, but no more.To the expansion tank, as this problem has been over years,I drained boiler to check tank, and pressure,No sign of membrane leaking, and I topped to 1 bar with pump.If water was going into tank via membrane, it should be full by now, the time I have topped up over time.??I could only do boiler test cold, topped system to 1.5bar, turned off valves CH, 24 hours, no loss??As I cannot find a visible leak, and topping up now above 0.5bar pointless as within 2-3 days it just goes back to 0.5bar, which then, somehow, it doesn,t seem to go much further,but very slowly.It appears to lose it when hot, so could be inside boiler, evaporating, slight corrosion around heat exchaner, which was why Homeserve came, new expansion vessel DHW, small one burst. Bit syntac, sorry.Wary of doing anything invasive at present, need CH/DHW.Like the OP, it,s finding the leak, without ripping home apart, now.Need to locate it, even if I change boiler, which I am considereing, next year;;Appreciate any more help.
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