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After 13 months in place and nobody touching it, it's decided to leak. From either the flow or return joint, I can't tell which.
It's coming through the ceiling now. It appears to slow once the heating is up to temp, I assume because the joint expands slightly when hot, but overnight it's leaked about 2 pints of water from the sealed system (so there went most of my pressure).
I've read lots of problems in the last 5 minutes of magnacleans leaking while I've been researching what I can do. At the moment, I'm in the mindset of just having the thing removed and the system put back to not having one. But I know advice will likely be otherwise.
I've no idea how to stop the leak. Can I remove the Magnaclean if I isolate it from the little isolation plastic...things...on the joint that comes with the magnaclean, and put PTFE tape around the (frankly, ridiculous) plastic thread of the magnaclean and reconnect?
It's snowing outside, it's freezing...and I have a massive leak.
Other info: system was powerflushed last year, boiler is nine years old (non-combi), pressurised system, inhibitor is (at least was, now likely lost through the leak) in the system.
It's coming through the ceiling now. It appears to slow once the heating is up to temp, I assume because the joint expands slightly when hot, but overnight it's leaked about 2 pints of water from the sealed system (so there went most of my pressure).
I've read lots of problems in the last 5 minutes of magnacleans leaking while I've been researching what I can do. At the moment, I'm in the mindset of just having the thing removed and the system put back to not having one. But I know advice will likely be otherwise.
I've no idea how to stop the leak. Can I remove the Magnaclean if I isolate it from the little isolation plastic...things...on the joint that comes with the magnaclean, and put PTFE tape around the (frankly, ridiculous) plastic thread of the magnaclean and reconnect?
It's snowing outside, it's freezing...and I have a massive leak.
Other info: system was powerflushed last year, boiler is nine years old (non-combi), pressurised system, inhibitor is (at least was, now likely lost through the leak) in the system.