Recent content by victorten66

I leave a system working when I finish a job. Avoid this guy in future. Sounds like air locks to me. It may get going on it's own but I wouldn't hold my breath. You could try bleeding the radiators first. i'm home now. Gonna try again in the morning... cant face going back for round 10 :(...

current situation.... really losing the will to live now :evil: :cry: got a phone call around 5 saying the system has filled up now and no leaks. so i go round at 6 and turn the boiler on... it fires up....happy days... i leave and go home. i head back at around 7 to check everything...

you have to excuse my ignorance but my 'research' was in a carpark picking up my kid from school :oops: What im trying to say is that could he have put in a direct water heating cylinder?

I rent out an old property which is empty at the moment and the cylinder/tank had a crack so I got it changed... a few days later i had to drain system to change a TRV and then noticed the system wasnt refilling... the plumber didnt know why... he assumed it was a normal tank so has replaced...

yes, it has what looks like 2 isolator valves next to eachother. the first one doesn't seem to work :shock: when you turn the new one to reduce the flow the sound is reduced but obviously takes longer to fill and it is still quite annoying noise-wise :(

i forgot to mention that a new bathroom suite was installed at the same time so surely the new toilet should be sufficient for the pressure (even though it was a cheap B&Q one)....?

howdy chaps, i'm new to the forum so please be gentle with me :D i've just had my old system boiler replaced with a new combi boiler. The problem is now when i flush the toilet the sound of the water filling up is immense. The sound is loud at the toilet itself and towards the loft where the...