On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 02:26:26 GMT, (Lurch)
wrote:

Is it safe to leave everything off for the next few days ? my concern here
being the pilot light in the central heating boiler - even though the
central heating is switched off.

You can switch it on.

A doomsday scenario might be if he got a slow 2nd leak in the CH
circuit, perhaps in a pipe joint under the ground floor, where water
in the circuit dumped. If the CH system is not replenished then the
possibility exists that the boiler might fire up on empty.

I presume this could cause damage to the boiler?

I
couldn't find it. The only other stopcock I could find is in the airing
cupboard and is labelled "hot water isolating valve" - could this be the
stopcock for the cold water feed to the ho****er tank? it's on a pipe
coming from the attic to the bottom of the ho****er tank so it seems likely,
but as it's labelled 'hot water' I'd like this confirmed

Consider it confirmed.

Bear in mind however that sometimes these gate valves are a bit leaky.
So you turn the valve off and water still dribbles thru.

I would turn the valve off and leave the HW tap in the kitchen fully
open for the duration. That way should there be any leakage in that
valve any water which gets thru ought to dump into the kitchen sink.

Unless the plumbing is such that the HW tank feeds taps from the top
end, in which case oh-oh.

PoP

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