any tradesmen / plumbers / sparkies...

[Lynton]

HELP!

Got home today to find the downstairs hall light doing a big wee.. (water leek)

SO far... have traced it pretty much to the pipe from the coldwater tank in the roof to the immersion heater... (and boy does it take a convoulted route, however gravity is rule no 1, 2 and 3)

Have isolated the light fitting.. so no leccy to it.. though it continues to drip

Have shut down the valve from CWT to stop any more water...

No pipes near the leak, so I *think" (have not ripped up the floor) that pipe is leaking from roof, going down outside of pipe and dripping from feed to immersion tank, which is than saturating wood and then maybe dripping ont leccy cable or maybe flooded floorspace... (ceiling not soft and spongy)

What else do i need to do as a priority...

 

[kendo1]

Put the kettle on for the plumber
You'll have to lift the floor to have a look- hopefully floorboards.

It's not been cold enough for a burst pipe, so it will probably be a connection if it is a pipe problem.
Should be easy enough to find.

Could be because of the rain? You'll just have to find it.
Keep tracing it back until you find a dry bit!

 

[MWHCVT]

Try not to get annoyed at said tradespeople as they likely are the CEO

 

[Martyn D]

Check your home insurance, a lot of policies have home emergency that will cover stopping the leak and having a look at the electrics and when you say you've isolated the light do you mean you've turned off all the power to the downstairs lights?
Does it seem the actual storage tank is leaking or is it where the pipe that its leaking down connects to the tank?

oh...and can i be pedantic and insist you stop calling the hot water cylinder an immersion heater

Oh and another quick edit....if your home insurance does have the home emergency, this house, in the country, if by any chance its in Cambridgeshire please do not ring them until the morning just in case its one on my list, as refuse to get called out when the footballs on

 

[Lynton]

Try not to get annoyed at said tradespeople as they likely are the CEO

meh, frigging one man bands!!! :-(

Check your home insurance, a lot of policies have home emergency that will cover stopping the leak and having a look at the electrics and when you say you've isolated the light do you mean you've turned off all the power to the downstairs lights?
Does it seem the actual storage tank is leaking or is it where the pipe that its leaking down connects to the tank?

oh...and can i be pedantic and insist you stop calling the hot water cylinder an immersion heater

Oh and another quick edit....if your home insurance does have the home emergency, this house, in the country, if by any chance its in Cambridgeshire please do not ring them until the morning just in case its one on my list, as refuse to get called out when the footballs on

We have top quality home insurance, ( i work for them) it is all covered so not a problem.. to be honest they will go OTT and want to gut half the house and rebuild it...

the hot thingy in the tank is immersed so therefore it is an immersion heater, not a hot water cylinder... switched off the power to it, and the feed and it is no longer hot.. ;-)

Martyn you are safe. I am in deepest darkest Norfolkshire..

 

[Martyn D]

ah ha...i miss understood what you wrote, i see what you mean about the immersion heater now. (even though its still immersed into a hot water cylinder )
Have you isolated the whole downstairs lights as they are on a ring and even though the switch is off there will still be 240 volts at the light fitting (sorry if i'm doing the grandma and suck eggs thing here)

 

[Picsta]

Where abouts are you? Water can trac along a number of things so sometimes can be hard to find.

 

[Lynton]

ah ha...i miss understood what you wrote, i see what you mean about the immersion heater now. (even though its still immersed into a hot water cylinder )
Have you isolated the whole downstairs lights as they are on a ring and even though the switch is off there will still be 240 volts at the light fitting (sorry if i'm doing the grandma and suck eggs thing here)

the electrics in this house are beyond me... there is a switc in the 2nd bedroom that appears to control an outside light at the back... trouble is, it has an IR sensor on it, so cannot grt close without activating it, and you'd think cables would go vertiacl or horizontal.... (nope!)... anyhow Loss adjustor appointed, and I am pretty sure they'll gut the downstairs.. leak traced....... not my job, but needed to know.. cannot fix myself but have things in place to stop it getting worse..