Looking for some information/advice from any of you knowledgeable folks out there.
As per the title I have a problem with the water system in the caravan. Decided today to sterilise the water system, connected up the aquaroll with the Milton solution, ran it through the pipes and left it for about 20 minutes. When I went back to the van I noticed a damp patch underneath, there was a slight drip from a plastic drain pipe under the van and not the main drain pipe for the entire system. Inside the van I found the pipe led from a plastic,red coloured, right angle connection that was fitted to the red coloured water pipe that went into/came from the top left hand corner of the boiler unit. I remember a couple of years back having a similar leak with another van and Damien from here advise it was a non return valve which had failed and to replace it (a simple enough job as it turned out). Today I tried to finish off sterilising the system as usual by flushing through with fresh water and here is where the real problem starts. Initially all was well, water running smoothly, then there was a sudden and very noticeable change in noise, seemed more like air being drawn in than water and water flow stopped completely. I switched the tap off and as normal the pump kept running to fill up the water tank before stopping but it sounded as though it was blowing bubbles so pump was promptly switched off at mains.
Looking on the Alde website at their spares catalogue it seems that the valve that was leaking is a domestic water connection with non return valve part number either 3000 472 or 572,( both are pictured together with no clear identification). They are slightly different to the connection I have as on mine at the top their is a right angle bend before connecting to drain pipe.
So does anyone know - are any of those connections shown in spares catalogue the same as mine with merely a modification?
And more importantly, would a complete failure in the non return valve lead to complete failure in the system to deliver water to the tap?
I will be onto my local dealership maintenance department later in the week, just hoping someone here can reassure me it is not a major problem hopefully.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Robert
As per the title I have a problem with the water system in the caravan. Decided today to sterilise the water system, connected up the aquaroll with the Milton solution, ran it through the pipes and left it for about 20 minutes. When I went back to the van I noticed a damp patch underneath, there was a slight drip from a plastic drain pipe under the van and not the main drain pipe for the entire system. Inside the van I found the pipe led from a plastic,red coloured, right angle connection that was fitted to the red coloured water pipe that went into/came from the top left hand corner of the boiler unit. I remember a couple of years back having a similar leak with another van and Damien from here advise it was a non return valve which had failed and to replace it (a simple enough job as it turned out). Today I tried to finish off sterilising the system as usual by flushing through with fresh water and here is where the real problem starts. Initially all was well, water running smoothly, then there was a sudden and very noticeable change in noise, seemed more like air being drawn in than water and water flow stopped completely. I switched the tap off and as normal the pump kept running to fill up the water tank before stopping but it sounded as though it was blowing bubbles so pump was promptly switched off at mains.
Looking on the Alde website at their spares catalogue it seems that the valve that was leaking is a domestic water connection with non return valve part number either 3000 472 or 572,( both are pictured together with no clear identification). They are slightly different to the connection I have as on mine at the top their is a right angle bend before connecting to drain pipe.
So does anyone know - are any of those connections shown in spares catalogue the same as mine with merely a modification?
And more importantly, would a complete failure in the non return valve lead to complete failure in the system to deliver water to the tap?
I will be onto my local dealership maintenance department later in the week, just hoping someone here can reassure me it is not a major problem hopefully.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Robert