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Had a look around the many posts on radiator balancing but didn't see an answer to this question, so.... How often should you need to balance radiators? Reason I ask is this - had system powerflushed and balanced Jan 2009. For the rest of that winter all rads lovely and hot. Winter 2009/2010...

Hi Folks. Over the last few weeks my boiler has got a bit noisy when the heating is on but not when the hot water is on and not when both heating and hot water are on together. It's a 20 year old Ideal Elan. System powerflushed and balanced 18 months ago. Boiler had new circuit board and fan...

Hi folks, I've got some security grilles attached to some of my windows. They're attached on the inside with some screws into the masonry. These screws have tamper proof heads - i.e. can be turned on way (to tighten up) but not the other - so I can't undo them. To make it worse they are quite...

Mother-in-law has a problem which I entered on another post. While I was looking at her pipework (the house, not her personally) I noticed one of the radiators is a double panel one where the front panel gets nicely hot but the rear panel stays cold. Each panel has its own bleeds screw. Front...

My Mother-in-law has a radiator in the bathroom that noremally heats up when the hot water is on. But it is no longer getting hot. It does get hot OK when the heating is on which (I think) suggests no problem with the radiator itself. Can someone tell me how these systems usually work? I...

Hi Chaps, Spent a fortune on the hot water/central heating system over the last year and finally thought everything was hunky dory. Now I've spotted a dribble from my hot water tank where the heating coil enters or leaves (not sure which - it's the top one). Might just need a bit of goo...

Hi, CH system powerflushed, balanced, new pump, and new 3 position valve a couple of weeks ago. Everything working fine - rads all scalding, boiler quiet etc. Bliss. Then suddenly today just one radiator is taking longer than usual to heat up. If I put the heating on for a single hour it takes...

Got a wet patch appeared on my carpet in the hallway. Warm and worse when the central heating is on. Cools down and not so wet when the heating is off. Bit of a clue I guess. The pipework for the downstairs rads goes in the concrete floor. How deep is it likely to be buried? Would you expect a...

Hi, Got an Aquilisa gravity fed shower - one of those with a thermostatic cartridge. Works OK but sometimes wish it had a bit more oomph! so am thinking of an upgrade. Now I know nothing about showers so will be getting someone in to do it, but thought I should at least try and understand the...

Hi, I've got a Honeywell 3 port valve with classic "sticky" symptoms with a bias in favour of the hot water i) if hot water on and put heating on, heating takes an age to warm up, and will only get as far as tepid on the downstairs rads ii) if hot water only recently gone off and put...

My boiler is an Ideal Elan approx 20 years old. During 2008 I had a new PCB and a new fan assembly fitted to it. I also had a new pump fitted to the heating system and had the system power-flushed. Now I have a few "issues". When the boiler starts up in the morning (hot water only) it's...