Central heating header tank
 

In an open-vented system, anyone know how much water is used, by
evaporation from the tank, if any? level in my tank dropping slightly,
maybe slight lk somewhere I suspect.

Central heating header tank
 

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
4square wrote:

In an open-vented system, anyone know how much water is used, by
evaporation from the tank, if any? level in my tank dropping slightly,
maybe slight lk somewhere I suspect.

At what rate are you using water - in litres per week, or whatever?

Is there not a ballvalve which automatically tops up the tank?
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Central heating header tank
 

If your level is dropping your ball valve is probably siezed.

Usually there is so little flow that it locks up in the closed position
after a year or so and then the header tank slowly empties.

Try waggling the ball valve to confirm that water comes in when you press
the ball down and then stops when you release it (wouldn't want a sticky
valve to stick open).

"4square" wrote in message
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In an open-vented system, anyone know how much water is used, by
evaporation from the tank, if any? level in my tank dropping slightly,
maybe slight lk somewhere I suspect.

Central heating header tank
 

In article
,
4square wrote:
In an open-vented system, anyone know how much water is used, by
evaporation from the tank, if any? level in my tank dropping slightly,
maybe slight lk somewhere I suspect.

Servowarm used to fit open systems with no water supply the tank. You had
to top up with a bucket when needed. Usually every few years. When mine
was open vented I used to turn off the cold water supply to the ball valve
- in case of a leak or whatever when away. Don't think I ever had to top
it up between inhibitor changes etc which required a drain down.

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Central heating header tank
 

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
4square wrote:
In an open-vented system, anyone know how much water is used, by
evaporation from the tank, if any? level in my tank dropping slightly,
maybe slight lk somewhere I suspect.

Servowarm used to fit open systems with no water supply the tank. You had
to top up with a bucket when needed. Usually every few years. When mine
was open vented I used to turn off the cold water supply to the ball valve
- in case of a leak or whatever when away. Don't think I ever had to top
it up between inhibitor changes etc which required a drain down.

How often should inhibitor be changed?