The flexible braided hose with the filling valves drips a bit when I use it. If it was more accesible and didn't need me to empty the cupboard of my wife's stuff I would remove it and check what is happening.
Are there some standard o rings that I should arm myself with when I remove it to investigate? It had thumb screw type nuts on each end.
Since it is *only when you use it* presumably the connections to the water mains and the boiler are OK, which suggests a leak from the spindle of the valve. This in turn means it is *probably* not worth trying to repair, I would be inclined to try to get a replacement hose. ISTR they are supposed to include a double check valve.
POSSIBLE CORRECTION TO THE ABOVE, are you saying that it looks like this?
I've never had one like that, but this seems to have stop valves at each end, which means that a leak between the valves and the flexible hose is a possibility. Those "thumb screw" nuts might have O rings, but IME are more likely to have normal flat washers, either rubber or fibre.
If you do a lot of DIY it's worth getting one of these
and one of these
(not necessarily from Screwfix, just used them as a convenient example).
They tend to use flat rubber washers. For O rings to work as designed they need constraint which means a more complex fitting. Washers need to fit neatly in a 1/2BSP screwed fitting.
I think they are the same as washing machine hose washers. A chunky washer rather than an O-ring
Graham. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Time to clear a bit of space.and put a tray under to catch whatever is in the pipe as I remove it. Thanks .
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