I have a cold water tank in the loft, and my overflow pipe drips outside, I think it is because the ball valve may be long overdue to be changed. Is this a reason for the overflow to be dripping.
How do I go about such a job? is it really as easy as changing it like for like ? I dont want to pay £75 for a quick job that I can do myself. How long is such a job likely to take me ?
Any help would me much appreciated.
Cheers
The job itself is dead easy
Turn off water, undo old valve with a wrench remove valve and sealing washer, fit new washer, screw on new valve, turn on water adjust ball valve to correct height
Repair kits cost less than £1.00 for new rubber and sealing washer so remove valve as above put new bits in and replace
However this assumes:
That you have a means of getting into your loft
That you can find the stop tap and turn it off (not always easy)
That you can gain access to the valve (e.g. that the tank is not jammed against the rafters requiring draining disconnecting and moving to gain access)
That the tank is not an old galvanised one where any attempt to work on the valve results in damage to the tank
That the valve is not a brass one where everything has seized
Or as happened to me once where a room had been created in the loft space and the tank was behind the walls and the access panel had been decorated over
Tony