Wakefield domestic plumber needed

[ceilingfish]

Hi chaps,
Firstly my apologies for my absolute lack of knowledge, I am by no means a professional plumber! I do however have what I consider a strange problem.

So I've got this tank in my attic (which I think is called a head tank, but I may be very wrong), and water keeps on running out of it's overflow pipe and dripping down the side of my house. What seems weird to me is that the water in the tank is hot, and it's pouring in from a pipe that appears to run from my boiler.

Surely my boiler shouldn't be sending hot water to this tank, it should be sending it to the hot water tank. Regardless if I close a valve that is on that pipe it slows down the flow to nothing but a trickle, but then I don't have any hot water.

Does anyone fancy taking a look?

Tom

PS PM me for contact details

 

[secret squirrel]

How many tanks in your loft? The header tank is the small one.

On the vent pipe that is an open pipe that flows into the tank from the top, this should not have any valves on it, if it does this is wrong and DO NOT turn it off.

 

[ceilingfish]

squirrel,
There's one tank, and in the airing cupboard below it there's a larger tank.

 

[secret squirrel]

The valve your turning off is the cold feed to the hot water cylinder, so in effect your turning your hot water off.

I think the problem may be with your boiler thermostat, try turning it down to see if it has any effect.

I'd also wait and see if anyone else has any ideas.

 

[ringw]

if its the small tank in the loft it could be it is pumping over which will be a blocked cold feed but would get someone to have a look