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Hefty
Fun day chez Brun.
Got up to no heating or hot water, F.75 fault on Vaillant boiler. No big deal, had similar a couple of years ago and topped up the pressure. Thought to keep an eye on it, being aware an immediate drop would indicate a proper problem. All seemed ok but then got a message from downstairs neighour wondering why water was dripping through their ceiling.
Location was obviously below my bathroom radiator, so pulled up floorboards in the hall and reaching under the bathroom floor confirmed the leak. Got a man to come out who did a very efficent job of disconnecting the leaky bit from the system and leaving me with heat minus one bathroom rad.
I can cope with this for now, but fixing it properly presents a bit of a dilemma. Getting at the actual problem isn't possible without lifting the tiled bathroom floor, and unless the rather large tiles come up in one piece (obviously not gonna happen) I expect that would leave the whole thing needing retiling.
He alternatively suggested the pipes could come through the floor in the hallway and then go through the wall, but that will presumably look very shit.
I'm wondering if an electric bathroom radiator would be the best solution. Anyone have any experience of them? Would appear much less hassle to install, and I also like the idea of having one radiator I could use for occasionally drying shit during the six months of the year when the CH is off. Bonus if one could be connected directly to Hive.