Recent content by Umbar

That's such a good, if worrying, point! Thank you very much.

Well I guess that was the question I intended to ask, only you put it rather more clearly than I managed. Now I know what the usual practice is, I'm completely comfortable with the fact he didn't provide that protection; I asked the question because I didn't know if he should have done. And...

Thank you for that! The leak you had to deal with sounds like a bit of a nightmare; as you say, just as well you were there for it. And thanks also for pointing out yet another real positive to come out of this.

Ouch. My system is considerably more than 10 years old and was, apparently, filthy. He didn't warn me about the possibility of leaks, but it doesn't really seem fair to me to pursue him over that; my thinking was that if he'd neglected to do something that was standard practice that would...

I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's definitely cheered me up (along with the knowledge that the rad didn't go when I was away). Thanks. :D

Cheers for that!

Thanks very much for this. It's a good suggestion but honestly speaking, having read the responses, I think it would be petty of me to pursue it. I asked the question because I really had no idea what the accepted practice was. If he wasn't out of order not protecting the carpet - and...

Thank you both, very much, for your quick and helpful replies. The plumber seems like a decent guy and I didn't want to try it on with him, so to speak, unfairly, and it sounds as though I would have been being unfair. And absolutely - it could have been a nightmare scenario had the rad...

Hi, I've been reading here for ages, and I'm sorry that my first post is one asking for advice. The situation is that I've had my system powerflushed by a local plumber and this caused a leak in one of my rads, which had corroded. As a result of the leak some water from the rad got onto...