jamesw
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Registered: 28th Jun 02
Location: Station Town, County Durham
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Just had load of building work done. Some may have seen my previous post of boiler howling since pipes had been re-routed, some people mentioned it could be the auto air valve. Anyway stopped the howling but few days ago electric started tripping when boiler is turned on. (Currently got it running off extention from another room as new electrics in the kitchen not fully hooked up yet.
Anyway after arsing about ive removed the front of the boiler. The damn auto air valve is leaking water - not much just tiny drips by looks of it but not good either way.
Ive google'd this and apparently they are a swine for getting blocked with little bits of gunk etc and not self sealing.
My question is can I simply just close the screw cap and just continue to bleed the rads myself? I guess in asking if it will cause any damage by closing the valve off at the finger screw? Boiler is Baxi Combi80E
Cheers
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jungle
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Registered: 22nd Nov 07
Location: methilhill,fife
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speak to mattk seems in the know plumbing wise  since he is a plumber 
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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technically yes you can, the are a bastrad for leaking, see it all the time on old ones I rip out, If your gonna do that though Id only do it temporay because they are there for a reason, closing it for a few weeks would be ok, but deffo try to get it sorted
they arnt that hard to replace
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