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Harry Bloomfield[_3_] Harry Bloomfield[_3_] is offline
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Default Boiler - water from the flue

Rob expressed precisely :
Obviously (?) the flue joint has failed, but this seems like a bonkers amount
of water to be ejected? I'll let the plumber know about this, but any
opinions welcome.


My guess would be that all of that water is simply the condensate and
that ice has managed to form in the pipe which has simply pushed the O
ring seal out of the pipe - it is not a flue pipe, it is a condensate
drain pipe. Condensate drains are causing lots of problems due to icing
up in this cold spell.

The length of condensate pipe does seem to be excessive, and it looks
as if it goes up from the point where it emerges from the wall. In
which case the condensate water would need to fill the pipe to be able
to flow down - that cannot be right, is the photo upside down?

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