Hi All,
The lock shield was leaking on my rad and was not heating up, had BG out today and he replaced it, can the new one BG installed still be turned off like the old ones ? or have they gone cheap on me and I'm unable to turn it off ? the new one has a screw on the top of the plastic that I've removed but then it looks like it's just a stem coming up that can't be turned to turn off ? or am I wrong ?
I've taken a pic of the valve that was on there as it's all other rads, on the new one that he's replaced it with , the rad is not getting hot and he said they want 1K for a power flush but if I go for the 1K power flush they will throw in a free hive, one other rad is not working but he wouldn't even have a go to get this hot as put in down to sludge and it's not covered in the service contract, after saying that was a crazy price he dropped it to £850 with a free hive but that's still way out of my price range.
I was going to take the 2 rads off that are not working and take them in the garden and hose them through but he said that would not change a thing as the blockage was in the maniflold, this could be BS but I'm going to give it a go. I need to take the rad off that he installed the new valve to blow this through, but am I correct in saying this now can't be turned off and the system has to be drained to take that rad off ?
new valve looks like
old looks like
Thanks in advance for any help
The lock shield was leaking on my rad and was not heating up, had BG out today and he replaced it, can the new one BG installed still be turned off like the old ones ? or have they gone cheap on me and I'm unable to turn it off ? the new one has a screw on the top of the plastic that I've removed but then it looks like it's just a stem coming up that can't be turned to turn off ? or am I wrong ?
I've taken a pic of the valve that was on there as it's all other rads, on the new one that he's replaced it with , the rad is not getting hot and he said they want 1K for a power flush but if I go for the 1K power flush they will throw in a free hive, one other rad is not working but he wouldn't even have a go to get this hot as put in down to sludge and it's not covered in the service contract, after saying that was a crazy price he dropped it to £850 with a free hive but that's still way out of my price range.
I was going to take the 2 rads off that are not working and take them in the garden and hose them through but he said that would not change a thing as the blockage was in the maniflold, this could be BS but I'm going to give it a go. I need to take the rad off that he installed the new valve to blow this through, but am I correct in saying this now can't be turned off and the system has to be drained to take that rad off ?
new valve looks like
old looks like
Thanks in advance for any help