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11/29/2015
Brian, Plumber
Category: UK Plumbing
Satisfied Customers: 900
Experience: 16 yrs. experience as plumber, including full bathroom and kitchen installations.
VerifiedHi ,no if your pressure is dropping you have an escape of water somewhere.
You state that an overflow is dry. Is this the Copper pipe sticking out of the wall on otherside of boiler.
Andrew Smith, Engineer
Category: UK Plumbing
Satisfied Customers: 4,029
Experience: Domestic Gas, Commercial Gas, LPG, Unvented Hot Water, Part P Electrical, Commercial Catering
VerifiedYou have no water running from the pressure relief or the condense pipework?
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