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The subject says it all - a friend has rung tonight (really - this isnt me!!!) saying that he was using that horrible expanding foam stuff to fill a whole alongside a new plasterboard dividing wall and he 'picked a bit up off the floor with my hands thinking it was dry' It is now apparently...

Agile, Green rant and judgement aside, its far from 14 rooms - some rooms have three rads in them, and its a 'trendy' 80s conversion that more open plan that tree huggers might allow now. Surely if the insulation between rooms (as opposed to between inside and outside) is just a flimsy door...

sorry kes, not explaining myself - pump seems to be working and is new. theres 'water moving' noises around the house, the pump makes a gentle hum etc. from old (ie off all day turns on at 4pm) the boiler wont cycle quickly, but will still turn off before room hits temp, but (with rads very...

Kes - mine is cycling off after maybe 1 minute, not 40. I cant see how the water can have even made a circuit by then!

theres a definite house shaking boom when the boiler starts up, so that along with the fast cycling means the wrong nozzle is fitted? Would/ should this nozzle have been changed at the recent service I just had? On a side note should the braided hose from the incoming oil pipe to the 'pump...

whats 'overfiring' - calling for heat too often? We have a wireless stat (in the lounge) and the temp seeems very stable. All rads seem hot so I assume heat can be lost quickly if needed?

Whilst appreciating the reply, I dont understand any link between boiler cycling and balancing radiators?

Having moved to this (large old) house in the summer we have finally had our (old inefficient, oil fired) boiler serviced and the heating is back in commission. I have replaced the wall mounted room stat in the draughty hallway with one in the lounge, which seemed sensible. All is now fine...

OP here - looked on the NGS map (thanks for the link) and its a borehole from a nearby construction project c 20 years ago. No idea wha the other manhole/ valve assembly is though. Underground tank is the best anyone locally can come up with, but no remaining sign of any pipework!

One solved - 35 metres of pipe later theres a branded valve on the end of the white pipe - seemingly its for water sampling. Theres some 'inrastructure' nearby that maybe needed it as part of its planning maybe. The other manhole with the mystery valve assembly - still a mystery!

'not available' would be a concise way of putting it, yes.

The land is and always has been agricultural - the building is 100+ years old and so a methane release/ dump within 10 metres seems unlikely. I did assume something that deep must be a well - just intrigued as to why it was preserved, lined and properly capped! The neighbours know...

Yes, thirty metres (assuming that was a straight question and I'm not missing some humour somewhere?)

We have just purchased an ex agricultural property (barn) that was converted in the 80s to a house. It has mains water, mains electricity, a sealed septic tank (maybe i mean cess pool - no soak away, just pumped out), no mains gas, and oil heating. In the parking area outside the property I...

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Thanks tony - it does look somewhat like the smaller, but the vessell is installed discretely (actually just sitting on the shelf in the airing cupboard). the pressure vessel failed about two years ago (at a year old) and the plumber simply pumped it back up with *my* foot pump - he did explain...

There's a pressure relief valve coming out of the side that goes to a tundish, and theres a second valve on some of the piper work on the top adjacent to what i think is the mains pressure cold inlet (marked 3 bar) - its next to the pressure relief valve also going to the tundish. There are no...

I'm a complete beginner I'm afraid, and trying to track down the reason for a discharge of water from the 'overflow' of my mains pressure hot water/ central heating system. As a secondary to this I'm trying to understand the system I have. The house is part of a street of houses all by a small...