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worcester 24I junior losing pressure?

I have a static caravan with a Worcester 24I Junior boiler. The pressure gauge goes down slowly over a period of 3 weeks. I have had the Bosch engineer out twice. First time he increased air pressure from .5 upto 1 Bar. When he left the water pressure gauge went down overnight. Topped it up and it went down overnight again. Second visit from Bosch engineer, he rang colleague who said the air pressure should be .5 as a caravan works different to a Home boiler. He then put the air pressure back to .5 Bar and set water pressure gauge to 1.5 bar. The water pressure gauge is now back to going down slowly over 3 weeks. I have turned of the valves from the boiler to the CH system (the pipes on the far left and right) unplugger the boiler and left for 10 days. The needle still goes down which tends to suggest the problem is with the boiler. I can't feel any water on the pipes to the boiler although there are some traces of green on the pipes. The gauge seems to go down quicker when the Central Heating is being used than when only hot water is being used. The decrease is not apparent during the day when we are using the hot water but has always decreased when I look first thing on a morning. Can't see any visible signs of leaks at radiators or outside pipeworks. Radiators seem to be working at correct temperatures.

Any suggestions please.

Laurie
June 2008
Check the 3 bar lift valve, i could be passing allowing the pressure to drop, also how old is the boiler if it has a plate heat exchanger for the domestic hot water it may have a hole in it.
The heat exchanger and blow of valve are the only two places the boiler can lose its pressure from.

SOLO HEATING
August 2009
turn up the water pressure bar needs to go up where is it. is it prosable to do this myself

Justin
September 2008
maybe its the pressure release valve,same happened to me.is the overflow pipe dripping very slowly if so it might be that

roper26
July 2008
Thanks John. It was a leaking Heat Exchanger. It has been replaced and is now working OK.

Laurie
June 2008
Air pressure at 10psi and water pressure of 1 bar is about right...if the pressure is falling the water must be going somewhere so check every pipe connection again. There could be an internal leak in the boiler heat exchanger though if there is no visible leak.

John
June 2008

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