I'm fed up with this junk. Boiler and heating system only four years old but it lost pressure twice today and I had to do the manual top-up on the boiler. The second time the pressure went to down completely to zero on the gauge.
I can't see any leaks. Could be anywhere - under the floor, in the loft, who knows...
It's a stupid bloody idea. When I had a new boiler fitted this last summer in my rental house, I insisted on having a gravity-fed boiler so that I wouldn't be forced to pressurise the system and modify any of the pipework at all beyond the fitting of the boiler.
I really wish I'd done that at home. I'm sick of the stupidity of topping up a system by hand when we discovered the heating hasn't come on, but with absolutely no indication of where the system might be leaking.
Stupid, all of it.
I'm just surrounded by junk that doesn't work. Doesn't matter whether it's made in China, the UK, or elsewhere, and it doesn't matter whether it was worked on by local people, Polish people, people from who-knows-where - *everything* is just bloody shoddy and poorly designed
Ovesn go wrong. Switch on the kettle breaks. Children's roller skates (Christmas present) break on only the third use. Relatively new plumbing just doesn't hold pressure...that's hardly the half of it...the list of useless, dysfunctional crap is just endless.
Michael