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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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  • Some older unvented under sink water heaters (I’m not sufficiently aware of all products on today’s market) used their own manufacturers matched taps to allow pressure release and some years ago I twice caught clients employing plumbers to replace a dripping mixer tap that was matched to the under sink unvented water heater (Heatrae Sadia if I recall) with a new standard mixer tap that would not drip. 

    As I understood it, those heaters were in fact vented - the special taps were really a separate valve and spout in the one unit - the valve controlled flow into the heater while the permanently open spout was connected to the heater outlet. Yes, they would drip as the heater warmed up and the water expanded. (Or that might be a different type again…)

       - Andy.

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  • Some older unvented under sink water heaters (I’m not sufficiently aware of all products on today’s market) used their own manufacturers matched taps to allow pressure release and some years ago I twice caught clients employing plumbers to replace a dripping mixer tap that was matched to the under sink unvented water heater (Heatrae Sadia if I recall) with a new standard mixer tap that would not drip. 

    As I understood it, those heaters were in fact vented - the special taps were really a separate valve and spout in the one unit - the valve controlled flow into the heater while the permanently open spout was connected to the heater outlet. Yes, they would drip as the heater warmed up and the water expanded. (Or that might be a different type again…)

       - Andy.

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