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Thank you very much for all your help. Even though we haven't found a solution you've helped to clarify things. For the time being I guess we will just have to put up with regular rounds of the house switching radiators off and then on again. Thank you again for your patience.

We keep the pressure at 1. (From time to time it falls below, and then we turn it up again.)

Thank you very much for your patience. Yes, there is a pressure gauge on the boiler. The expansion tank is blue. We have not topped up the water in the system, and would have no idea how to do so (nothing in the instruction manual!). The leak so far has been very slight, and not evident every...

I'm obviously not a plumber so please forgive my ignorance! Does the fact that there is a small amount of water very occasionally from one side of the radiator mean that the whole system is affected so that sometimes some rads a long way from the one that seems to leak will be stone cold? Also...

Thank you for getting me thinking! The boiler is an ecohometec EC38H condensing boiler. It seems to have an expansion talk attached to it. The pump is described as 'variable speed integral circulating pump'. At the moment rads in the kitchen and my office are hot, but another (in the room...

Thanks, but I don't think so because the kitchen radiator, like all the others in the house, goes off when there is 'domestic hot-water demand'. Then when the hot water has finished heating up, the kitchen rad may come on again (or may not, depending on its mood at the time! :x ).

We have a condenser system. After the heating has been off overnight the radiator in the kitchen (where the boiler is)is usually stone cold while the other rads are hot.Going around the house switching them all off and then on again cures the problem but only temporarily. Sometimes we have a...