You all helped me with my boiler problem and I am in the process now of having a new one installed sometime soon.
I have a new, very baffling question to ask you. You will think I have "lost" it, but I think I'm still ok.
Why do I have so many questions that all pertain to leaks!
The first time I turned off the hot water valve on the boiler, per HVAC Man #2, I noticed my upstairs shower began to drip from the shower head. It made no sense to people who knew something about plumbing. I can understand that because it made no sense to me.
Once I turned the valve back on, the dripping stopped.
I turned off the hot water valve a couple of weeks ago and noticed the same thing, dripping from the shower head. No water comes from any of the hot water faucets in the house. I called a local plumber I know and he wasn't sure what it was. He thought it was the part that unscrews out of the shower head and took it out but then just put it back again. He was stressed out himself over a medical issue that had just come up and told me to watch it and to call his office and his co-worker would come and take a look. He came as a courtesy call and left to go on an immediate two week vacation.
I turned the boiler back on until two days ago. Because the weather is pretty hot and because I would prefer to not have to remember to add water to the sight glass every couple of days, I turned off the hot water for "good". I wash clothes in cold water and I take short cold showers, so I figured I could manage until I get the new boiler. Once again, the shower head drips.
But this is the NEW and even more baffling thing. Today, I flushed the toilet in that bathroom and watched the shower head, It STOPPED dripping. When the toilet tank filled up, the dripping started. I thought that was insane, so I deliberately flushed the toilet a second time and, again, the shower head stopped dripping or slowed down to almost no drips. When the tank was full, the dripping started up again with a larger "leftover" back-up drip to begin with, and then the regular steady drip.
I'm going to go upstairs right now and flush the toiler again. Hold on. OK, I measured the dripping and it is one drip a second (10 drips in 10 seconds). I flushed the toilet and in the time it takes for the toilet to flush and for the tank to fill up, there were five slow drips (I have the good old-fashioned eco-unfriendly toilets). When the tank filled up, again, there was a larger "connected" drip and then faster dripping.
It is now back to 1 drip per second.
I am not worried about it. It just doesn't make sense to me. How is the toilet connected to the shower line? When I ask others about it, they think it's my age. It isn't.
When I have the boiler installed, I will have the shower head also checked out.
I have to keep the bathroom door closed so I don't hear the dripping at night.
Thank you all. I'll be interested to see what you think.
Phyl
I have a new, very baffling question to ask you. You will think I have "lost" it, but I think I'm still ok.
Why do I have so many questions that all pertain to leaks!
The first time I turned off the hot water valve on the boiler, per HVAC Man #2, I noticed my upstairs shower began to drip from the shower head. It made no sense to people who knew something about plumbing. I can understand that because it made no sense to me.
Once I turned the valve back on, the dripping stopped.
I turned off the hot water valve a couple of weeks ago and noticed the same thing, dripping from the shower head. No water comes from any of the hot water faucets in the house. I called a local plumber I know and he wasn't sure what it was. He thought it was the part that unscrews out of the shower head and took it out but then just put it back again. He was stressed out himself over a medical issue that had just come up and told me to watch it and to call his office and his co-worker would come and take a look. He came as a courtesy call and left to go on an immediate two week vacation.
I turned the boiler back on until two days ago. Because the weather is pretty hot and because I would prefer to not have to remember to add water to the sight glass every couple of days, I turned off the hot water for "good". I wash clothes in cold water and I take short cold showers, so I figured I could manage until I get the new boiler. Once again, the shower head drips.
But this is the NEW and even more baffling thing. Today, I flushed the toilet in that bathroom and watched the shower head, It STOPPED dripping. When the toilet tank filled up, the dripping started. I thought that was insane, so I deliberately flushed the toilet a second time and, again, the shower head stopped dripping or slowed down to almost no drips. When the tank was full, the dripping started up again with a larger "leftover" back-up drip to begin with, and then the regular steady drip.
I'm going to go upstairs right now and flush the toiler again. Hold on. OK, I measured the dripping and it is one drip a second (10 drips in 10 seconds). I flushed the toilet and in the time it takes for the toilet to flush and for the tank to fill up, there were five slow drips (I have the good old-fashioned eco-unfriendly toilets). When the tank filled up, again, there was a larger "connected" drip and then faster dripping.
It is now back to 1 drip per second.
I am not worried about it. It just doesn't make sense to me. How is the toilet connected to the shower line? When I ask others about it, they think it's my age. It isn't.
When I have the boiler installed, I will have the shower head also checked out.
I have to keep the bathroom door closed so I don't hear the dripping at night.
Thank you all. I'll be interested to see what you think.
Phyl