Condensation problem

[GB_Groundworks]

my house,

you enter through the old outhouse which has been converted to be a little porch then into the kitchen, boiler is in this got home tonight late on and the ceiling is dripping with condensation, theres a vent which is open but im wondering if its the flue etc, ill ask the plumbers on monday but thought id ask. its a cold night here -2 maybe and heating would have come on at 4.30.

its a worcester bosch 28cdi thinking maybe the outhouse bit isnt insulated enough or the flue is causing it as goes straight up and out the roof.

thought or experiences gents...

[digerjones]

giles, have you had a winter in this house before?

[henpecked]

Had similar this week in our house, it was due to a leak in the roof. The water took time to peculate through the plaster board and ended up looking like 100 drips across the ceiling. Roofer came out and found the tiles under the hip ridge were cracked along the mortar joint.
You're going to tell me this room is internal now aren't you? :laugh:

[GB_Groundworks]

yes wintered before, no it has a roof but had no rain last two days been too cold,

its definitely something to do with the boiler as only happens when boiler is on

[rimexboy]

is the presure ok on the boiler or has it dropped

[GB_Groundworks]

pressure is ok

[rimexboy]

i would be very concered by this as it may be the flue leaking, i would suggest you contact the firm who fitted or even your local gas firm as to weather it should be left on or turned off.

is the 22mm white pipe condensing clear of any debrie, does it go outside is it freezing up maybe.

[lutonlagerlout]

simples
The old outhouse isnt insulated
cold air meets warm air (boiler is on due to cold)
condensation forms
when the temperature warms up it will go
i guess your house is pre 1960 Giles?
now days we would use a warm deck system to alleviate this
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

1902 my house, boiler must be 15-20 years old im guessing not seen worcester bosch 28cdi's for a while, that was my though tony, think its time to rip it apart and insulated it better, ive got a composite door on order to replace the wooden one

ive been in 2 years and not done much but starting to push on with it, but doing 70 hours or more a week building last thing you want to do is do it at evening and weekends

got my cellar to convert, bathroom to redo and then gonna convert the two bedrooms in my attic into 1 mater bedroom yeah ill loose a bedroom but be worth it for big bedroom

going to look at a knock through new kitchen rd the corner now, be good to get some local work for a change

[henpecked]

............you ........have a...........cellar

[seanandruby]

For the poets amongst us, Cellar door is reckoned to be the most beautiful word/phrase in the English dictionary.

[lutonlagerlout]

i thought it was
babbling brook?
LLL ???

[seanandruby]

"cellar door"

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Grant Barrett contributed a nice essay in last Sunday's NY Times Magazine, [1]
an introduction to the somewhat oft-made claim that the most beautiful sounds
in the English language are "cellar door." He traced it back, so far, to a 1903
work of fiction by a teacher in Chicago.[2] That work attributed the statement
to a foreigner, an Italian.

As an aside, I noticed a puzzling use of this collocation, whether related or
no, in an earlier newspaper in Chicago.[3] A Frenchman from Paris was
supposedly comparing and contrasting the two cities. The article commented: "It
is as if Paris said to Chicago, with an our-cellar-door air: 'Humph! Don't you
think yerself big!' What does "cellar door" mean here?

I searched for attributions, and found (post-1903) attributions to E. A. Poe,
who seemed an unlikely candidate, as he was not an alien (unless
extraterrestrial), though late commentators did mention "...my chamber
door....nevermore." Then I found a 1933 attribution to G. Mazzini. [4} that
seemed plausible, but I found no earlier confirmation. Then I noticed a 1922
attribution to Margaret Fuller. Eventually it dawned on me that Fuller--later,
by marriage, Ossoli--reviewed Poe's book including The Raven the same year it
came out, 1845; [5] and she met Mazzini in 1846. Coincidence?

"Is there not a story concerned with Margaret Fuller and her awakened
appreciation of the beauties of her own tongue through the admiration of an
Italian friend, for that word--so homely of association and so beautiful for
the disposal of its consonants and vowels--Cellar door?" [6]