I live in a one-story bungalow.

My (conventional) hot water system is leaking badly somewhere, but I cannot
detect it ! It is not central heating water.

The water is being lost but I can find no sign of where it is going.

The leak is constant, as far as I can tell. It is not leaking from the
hot-water cylinder or close to it.

I have checked outside overflows, and the sewers.

My plumber wants to start pulling up wooden floors. These floors are
overlaid on the original concrete ones. The piping is, based on previous
incidents, encased in rubber insulation.

The plumber says that there is no non-invasive way to even narrow down the
area to be pulled up.

Is he correct ?


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Fergus O'Rourke wrote:

I live in a one-story bungalow.

My (conventional) hot water system is leaking badly somewhere, but I cannot
detect it ! It is not central heating water.

The water is being lost but I can find no sign of where it is going.

The leak is constant, as far as I can tell. It is not leaking from the
hot-water cylinder or close to it.

I have checked outside overflows, and the sewers.

My plumber wants to start pulling up wooden floors. These floors are
overlaid on the original concrete ones. The piping is, based on previous
incidents, encased in rubber insulation.

The plumber says that there is no non-invasive way to even narrow down the
area to be pulled up.

Is he correct ?

You don't really seem to have answered one of the key questions
that was asked in response to your earlier posting. i.e. Exactly
how do you know that water is being lost?

Do you know that your hot water supply pipes are buried in the
concrete floor? If so do you (or your plumber) know where they
run?

Tell us more about the "previous incidents."

Chris

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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Plant amazing Acers.

Chris J Dixon wrote:
Fergus O'Rourke wrote:

I live in a one-story bungalow.

My (conventional) hot water system is leaking badly somewhere, but I cannot
detect it ! It is not central heating water.

The water is being lost but I can find no sign of where it is going.

The leak is constant, as far as I can tell. It is not leaking from the
hot-water cylinder or close to it.

I have checked outside overflows, and the sewers.

My plumber wants to start pulling up wooden floors. These floors are
overlaid on the original concrete ones. The piping is, based on previous
incidents, encased in rubber insulation.

The plumber says that there is no non-invasive way to even narrow down the
area to be pulled up.

Is he correct ?

You don't really seem to have answered one of the key questions
that was asked in response to your earlier posting. i.e. Exactly
how do you know that water is being lost?


Ha ha! I think we'll be waiting a long time for an answer to this. ;-) If
he can read this group and neglect to answer this question so many times
after his first post, I doubt he's going to bother now.

Tim

On 17/01/2014 12:46, Chris J Dixon wrote:
Fergus O'Rourke wrote:


You don't really seem to have answered one of the key questions
that was asked in response to your earlier posting. i.e. Exactly
how do you know that water is being lost?

He's a lawyer. Surely you can't expect him to disclose all the facts
before the court case?


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Tciao for Now!

John.

I live in a one-story bungalow.

My (conventional) hot water system is leaking badly somewhere, but I cannot
detect it ! It is not central heating water.

The water is being lost but I can find no sign of where it is going.

The leak is constant, as far as I can tell. It is not leaking from the
hot-water cylinder or close to it.

I have checked outside overflows, and the sewers.

My plumber wants to start pulling up wooden floors. These floors are
overlaid on the original concrete ones. The piping is, based on previous
incidents, encased in rubber insulation.

The plumber says that there is no non-invasive way to even narrow down the
area to be pulled up.

Is he correct ?

My plumber avoided lifting our parquet flooring to put a new pipe in by
having a builder take out a couple of bricks from the outside wall. This
gave him access under the suspended floor.

Mike

"Fergus O'Rourke" wrote:
I live in a one-story bungalow.

My (conventional) hot water system is leaking badly somewhere, but I cannot
detect it ! It is not central heating water.

The water is being lost but I can find no sign of where it is going.

The leak is constant, as far as I can tell. It is not leaking from the
hot-water cylinder or close to it.

I have checked outside overflows, and the sewers.

My plumber wants to start pulling up wooden floors. These floors are
overlaid on the original concrete ones. The piping is, based on previous
incidents, encased in rubber insulation.

The plumber says that there is no non-invasive way to even narrow down the
area to be pulled up.

Is he correct ?



No, he's telling porkies. There's a simple way of isolating the leak
without ripping up all your floors. Of course, he doesn't make as much
money that way. First though, tell us why you think you've got a leak.

Tim