Recent content by goaty_man

Guys, Are you able to tell me if it is now a compulsory regulation to install a hot water cylinder on a platform (even if it is just two small pieces of wood). A plumber told me that this was the case and as a result my pipework would have to be modified (meaning more expense). If this is...

Thanks Guys, The info you have provided is great. I'm gonna give it a bash and change the elbows to (low loss) TRVs. I have two final questions if I may. I want to add a heated towel rail in the bathroom, I have removed the radiator (with a pipe into the top and one in the bottom) and want...

Guys, Thanks for the advice. Can I ask a couple more questions???? How would I know if it was a gravity system? You mention not playing with the pipework, would the TRVs go at the pipework leading into top of the radiator or into the bottom? If it's the top one, do you recommend that I leave...

Hi everyone, I'm thinking of chancing the valves on my radiators to TRVs, however I have a few concerns. At the moment each radiator only appears to have one valve. Water enters the radiator from the top and leaves at the bottom (or is it the other way around????). The pipe entering the...

Breezer, Rads and pump have all been bled, no problems!!!! I had slackened off the rad valves and there doesn't appear to be a blockage, I can tell you it's a good job they don't have carpets ;). After drawing a significant amount of water from the valves the flow pipework starts to get...

Hi After a bit of investigation I've found that 22mm feed and return upstairs reducing to 15mm before feeding a bathroom radiator upstairs and the 4 radiators (2 old, 2 new) downstairs as per diagram. This was obviously too much for the size of pipe. What I have done is leave the 15mm...

Cheers Tomas, I'm gonna give it a shot tomorrow, it's being bugging the hell out of me. One thing that I thought was that the new part of the circuit joins the existing circuit using a tee (as would be common), however as the diagram shows the part where the flow tees in uses the bottom of...

Tomas, thanks once again, Can I ask one or two final questions? Would the addition of thw two new radiators cause one of the original two to stop working altogther? Should I experience some warmth from the new radiators (even if it was only slight?) I'll check for blockages but I...

Tomas, thanks for the advice. Before I go ahead and change the pipework is it likely that there is a blockage, afterall there is no warmth in the radiators at all or would a lack of flow due to pipework be enough to cause this? once again cheers, G

The flow and return pipework is in 22mm upstairs, as this tees off (leading to the downstairs radiators) this reduces to 15mm, the piepwork to the existing radiators and new ones is all 15mm. Each radiator situated downstairs is spurred from the ring circuit upstairs (hope that makes sense)...

Mick, I'll give it a go, do you think it likely that a blockage in the flow (or return) pipework to the new radiators would affect the radiator that has suddenly stopped working? I suppose there is a possibility that there may be a blockage there as well, probably on the return if the flow...

Thanks for the reply guys, I've shut off the majority of radiators as well as attempting to balance the system, this appears to have had little effect. I don't believe that there are any blockages in the pipework. It really is starting to confuse me! The flow to the radiator that was...

Hi guys, Wonder if you might be able to help me. I went to do a job recently involving the addition of 2 radiators in a house. The job was easy enough, however when I came to recommission the system I’ve hit a couple of fairly major problems. These are: - The newly installed radiators...