Alde 3000 bleeding valve

[Shaino]

Hi All,

If I understand it right the 3000 has an auto-bleeding valve and today I found pink fluid dripping underneath the van.
Using my deductions methods I concluded the "1" is the auto-bleeding valve and "2" is an air intake for water draining (but needs a confirmation from the forum experts!)

I yesterday added 1 litre of the pink fluid which made it to the MIN level , I know the system was fully re-charged 2 years ago and was not in use since then. I can only assume something didn't go right 2 years ago and the bleeding valve loses about 1 litre until it reaches some pressure level.

What do I need to do to fix it?

 

[RogerL]

The bleed valves don't have a tube going through the floor - they're just used to bleed air out - any incidental fluid has to be wiped up.

Tubes going through the floor are drain tubes, either from a drain valve or a pressure relief valve.

 

[Shaino]

@RogerL I think this is number 1 on the photo, which is a bleed valve. https://www.alde.co.uk/our-products/automatic-air-bleed-valve/

 

[RogerL]

@RogerL I think this is number 1 on the photo, which is a bleed valve. https://www.alde.co.uk/our-products/automatic-air-bleed-valve/

I forgot the automatic bleed valve - I was referring to the manual bleed valves at each high point on the pipework.

 

[Shaino]

In case this will be useful to anyone else - after gently (and not) tapping the valve it made it even worse and I decided to replace it.
Alde confirmed the new valve "should work" with the 3000 boiler , and I can see it's a bit different inside - the old one had a black plastic piece that moves up and down.

Took 10 mins to replace, the most challenging part was to remove it from the rubber hose as it was stuck there.