The most common problem is a smell from the vent from stagnant water, unless it’s very badly installed and there’s runback.
What some do is extend the on-time to ‘dry out’ the duct.
If a room needs extraction, it has to be properly implemented for it to work effectively. Retrofitting a vent into a space where adequate provision for a proper solution was not considered is sub-optimum, which is where you find yourself.
If you complain, just be sure who’s responsible for what, what you’re actually complaining about, and what you want done about it.
As an aside when they built the new dressing rooms in the local GAA club, must be 20 years ago now, they installed flexible roof vents in the showers.
It took a bit of time but the steam condensing in the vent pipes (for want of a better word) in the cold attic space eventually built up and burst ruining a couple of ceilings.
As you can imagine after such a period of time there was a lot of arguments as to who was responsible as the insurer wouldn’t pay up. I can’t recall what happened in the end.
I suppose there’s a big difference between hundreds of showers a week compared to a few.
One of my outside “trickle vents” has broken somehow … it’s 45cm wide…cannot for the life of me find one that size online? It’s a 2 min replacement job if I could find one
Question. We have a Worcester boiler installed. It is working fine, but the water pressure is reading zero. When I repressurise through the loop, it goes up, then straight back down even though the central heating is off. As far as I can ascertain, if the pressure really is zero, the boiler should cut out but it isn’t.
I can’t find an obvious radiator leak.
Anything else I need to do?
I’ve asked a pal to arrange a boiler service.
Then It has to be either a leak or the expansion tank in the boiler itself… the expansion tank/vessel has a rubber diafram in the centre of it… one side air and one side water which allows the boiler to keep its pressure when it heats up and cools again… i wonder has the air pressure dropped allowing more water into the tank…
anyways a plumber will have it sussed in no time
My money would be on exactly what @Alan-partridge says…how old is the boiler?
Otherwise you’ve a leak. Some things to look for besides obvious wet patches is the overflow outside, is it dripping? Does the pressure come back any bit when it’s heated up?
