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Leaking Ariston 2kW Water Heater.

A customer complained that his Ariston unvented water heater that he installed himself had leaked water. The model is a 3100306 undersink type. He said that water was leaking from the heater inside the house in his utility room. I asked about the discharge pipe and he looked blank. He said that the pipework took care of the hot water pressure build up. The unvented heater did not seem to have a pressure/temperature relief valve, tundish or pipework to the outside. Nor does it have a pressure reducing valve. A warning label on the front says that if water leaks out to turn off the heater and call an engineer.  He poo pooed that idea. Will it eventually blow up or flood the house?

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  • The pressure relief valve is the plumbing equivalent of a fuse or circuit breaker, it is not there as a functional control to relief the expansion from the heater, that has to be accommodated in the pipe or an expansion bottle.

    The pressure relief valve is purely there to stop the heater or pipework bursting if there’s excessive pressure over six bar.

    We would not even be discussing the rights or wrongs of installing the heater with electrical circuit protection, but this is the same odds, he has missed the protection out of the plumbing installation.

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  • The pressure relief valve is the plumbing equivalent of a fuse or circuit breaker, it is not there as a functional control to relief the expansion from the heater, that has to be accommodated in the pipe or an expansion bottle.

    The pressure relief valve is purely there to stop the heater or pipework bursting if there’s excessive pressure over six bar.

    We would not even be discussing the rights or wrongs of installing the heater with electrical circuit protection, but this is the same odds, he has missed the protection out of the plumbing installation.

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