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Doesn't it always happen? Today when I am feeling rather less than perfect (dizzy, bad stomach, not eaten properly for a week etc. etc.)Anne went upstairs to close the bedroom window and there is a nice puddle of water in the bed and drips dropping gently from the ceiling. Now our loft is more of a roof space than anything else, but up I goes. The valve to the Central Heating header tank is leaking and so the tank has over filled. The idiot who installed it had snapped the overflow pipe and joined it with tape which had split with age so instead of flowing away it was flowing onto the ceiling! Can I find a stop tap to turn off the water to the tank, can I heck. Can I stop the valve leaking, can I heck.
Dirty, spidered. insulation irritated I eventually managed to rejoin the overflow pipe so at least it is now running down the roof and incidently into the water butt.
Overnight I will have to turn off the water supply to the house and tomorrow I have the glorious task of fitting a new valve and one piece overflow pipe.
Tonight may be a long night as the bed is still a little damp!. What a joyful life we lead.

Oh, Eric, I am sorry to "laugh" but while reading your post I am listening to an American Country Music Channel on line which is playing one Clay Walker singing "Gonna Live, Laugh and Love" which includes the line "gonna take all the troubles that tomorrow may bring and put them away.  Yea gonna live, gonna laugh gonna love"!!!

Appropriate?? ;D - seriously hope you are feeling better soon and that you get things sorted out without any more problems.

Megan

Well, at least I can do the plumbing bit myself, otherwise would probably have to wait a long time for one to show up. Tis all the fault of hard water supply and potato salad!

Potato Salad ???

Oh Eric, what a load of rotten luck.  As my mother is so used to saying....it never rains but it pours....  Hope you get it sorted tomorrow....and I figure the potato salad gave you the tricky tum?????

Sorted. It took longer to drive into town to buy the new pieces than it did to fit them!

Hope you are feeling better now Eric and starting to dry out. At least you have sorted it now before the weather gets really cold. Have a pampering weekend, you deserve it!   :) busy_lizzie    

Quote from: Palustris on September 17, 2004, 22:14:06The idiot who installed it had snapped the overflow pipe and joined it with tape which had split with age so instead of flowing away it was flowing onto the ceiling!

We had a similar situation from our tanks. Luckily we discovered it before we had a leak!

We live in a victorian terrace which has two rooms in the attic space. We replaced the ceiling in the room with the tanks in and discovered that the overflow pipe went along the wall through a hole in the false wall towards the front of the house & then stopped. If we'd actually have had a leak the water would have come straight through into the room below.

Cue a longer bit of pipe (properly joined!) and much fun & games while we tried to get it out under the roof & over the gutter.