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Where is the best place to drain off the water in the hot water heating circ, at this stage (until I can get stuck in Monday) I’m unsure whether it’s a Y or S plan. I’m thinking close all the Rads, then drain from a Rad on the ground floor (cylinder in loft) making sure valve in the hot...

Give your Silicon a good 24 hours to cure

Shouldn’t be necessary to remove the enclosure, unless he’s left it with a excessive gap, if he as it might be worth removing the caps and screws that hold it to the wall channels, putting some pressure on the rail while re-drilling (only if its quiet a way out) Dry around the rail/tray area...

Cheers ACO, without seeing it again I’m guessing/must be that the heating circ is vented back to the F & E tank

Empty Tank….full Cylinder think you’ll find…. Aqua-vac it is then I’m actually more concerned about the airlock possibility once I reconnect the flow and return is a AAV the answer, should they always be fitted?

Thought their maybe someone who had an easy way of emptying cylinder (no drain off tap) Could I end up with a air lock in the heating circ once reconnected, no automatic air vent fitted, should I fit one?

Just about to order 1050x500 replacement hot water cylinder.. My question….What’s the most successful way of removing the existing cylinder, Once I’ve isolated the cold feed to cylinder and feed to heating circuit? This cylinder is in the loft by the way