As the temperature starts to drop, households start to rely increasingly on their boilers to keep their homes warm and dry. But boilers can be temperamental and over time you can lose pressure in your boiler due to leaks or boiler faults. As a result, you may end up having some serious problems with your hot water and central heating. If you’ve noticed your boiler pressure has dropped, then you’ll want to fix the problem as quickly as possible. In this post, we have put together some of the reasons why your boiler pressure drops and ways to combat this.
What is Boiler Pressure?
Your boiler uses a certain amount of pressure to keep the system running through your property. This pressure can increase and decrease with the temperature to make sure that you have both hot and cold water available at any time. For boilers to work effectively, it needs to operate within a set pressure range, which is managed by the boiler’s expansion vessel; this pressure range is usually between 0.7 bar and 2.5 bar.
How Do You Check if Your Boiler Pressure is Low?
There are a number of indicators that something is up with your boiler pressure, one of which is a loss of hot water. And if you’ve noticed this or another symptom that’s cause for concern then the obvious thing to do is to check your boiler’s manual. Every boiler is different which means they have different pressure gauges, which can be difficult to find. Boilers also have different indicators of boiler pressure dropping, so you’ll want to check what the displays mean before you start your investigation. Boiler manuals are usually available for free online, if you can’t locate yours.
Once you’ve located your pressure gauge, you’ll be able to check whether or not the pressure in your boiler has actually dropped. Once you have confirmation of your pressure dropping, then you can get in touch with a leak detection specialist or a plumber to solve the problem before it continues to deteriorate.
What Causes Your Boiler to Lose Pressure?
Usually the loss of pressure is a result of a leak somewhere in your system, often around the valves in your radiator. While other issues can cause your boiler pressure to drop, this is the most common and the most difficult to spot. Other issues can be easily solved on your own but leaks are difficult to find and even harder to fix without professional help. Often they are the result of corrosion in the pipes, when the material starts to break down, leading to small leaks in the system. These leaks can be incredibly difficult to spot, particularly if they’re small enough that you don’t notice them until you lose pressure in the pipes.
What Should You Do Next?
If you’ve noticed a drop in your boiler pressure and if you’ve confirmed it with your pressure gauge, then we would recommend getting in touch with our team at Specialist Leak Detection. We can offer you a comprehensive service for locating any leaks throughout your systems. As the name of our company suggests, we specialise in this and we guarantee that we’ll find any leak no matter how small the leaks might be.
We have a selection of exceptional techniques that are designed to locate them in a fast and un-intrusive manner and we can guarantee that we’ll find the leaks that you have in your home. Feel free to get in touch with us today by calling us for free on 0808 503 9923 and we would be happy to arrange for one of our specialists to be with you as soon as possible.