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Just to complete the thread. Got the insurers in for trace and access. Slow leak found under kitchen sink, next to outside wall. Gonna need to pull out the unit under the sink and pull up floorboards - but at least it's not pulling up laminate and hacking into concrete. Thanks for responses.

Hi terryplumb, Thanks for the message. Yeah, it's looking like it. Just put the water back on and re-measured, looks like the tank lost roughly 39 litres over 7h 20mins. If my maths is right, that's 5 litres an hour or 120 litres a day or 3720 litres a month. You'd expect to see that amount...

Agreed! I always turn these things with a great deal of trepidation

Hi Andy, thank you. Wouldn't the tank have to be fully empty first?

Hi CBW, I'm right with you, but unfortunately that gate valve is fooked. Have called someone about getting it replaced.

Hi Andy, Afraid not. Just flushed it, it's not filling. Cheers, pmb

Hello terryplumb, Andy and CBW, and thank you so much for your responses! I have double-checked all I can. Here goes... - *All* the toilets are definitely mains fed (so with the mains water off I'm assuming they shouldn't affect the loft tank????) - *Every* cold tap in the house, except for...

I will double-check but am pretty sure that the toilets are all mains fed. In any case they are all ok, I think - I refitted them last summer. Bog roll on the back of the pan is staying dry, and no overflows running.

Hello CBW, Thank you for the reply. Washing machine and dishwasher are both mains fed, I think. Washing machine can be isolated independently - but not dishwasher. Tried unhooking waste pipe from that into bucket a few weeks ago, but didn't see any leakage there. Interested by your 'old...

Hello terryplumb, Thanks for the response. We were away just under 2 days and the tank took a good 5-10 minutes to fill up once I opened the stopcock. I'm going to repeat the exercise tonight. There's a hot and cold pipe running through concrete to a tiny sink in a downstairs toilet in the...

Hi all, Hope you can help. We've just had the mains feed up the drive replaced, and a water meter fitted. Usage seemed rather high to us. So, we turned off the cold water feed to the tank in the loft and the meter stopped moving - we assumed it was leaky ballcock on that basis (it was...