Recent content by alan0259

Hey guys I recently changed a cloakroom radiator to a towel radiator in my house When I topped the system back up I couldn’t get a lot of the rads hot without playing with all the valves to balance the system (they’re all now hot) Since doing all of this, my 12 month old Baxi combi boiler has...

Just been googling and seen this. The cold pipe is right above it though and this is dry. And it’s doing it when the house isn’t even that cold. Any sure way of ruling this out?

A little baffled at this one... I’ve almost finished re-doing all my downstairs cloakroom and I have one 15mm copper pipe that is wet to the touch underneath the pipe. This pipe is the hot water feed to the room (not plumbed the sink in to run water yet, the pipe is cold and it’s isolated at...

Hi I have 17 radiators in my house and a combi boiler Recently drained down and I’m refilling Assuming this 1l bottle here is way more than enough for what I need? Guy at the shop had no idea... Thanks in advance

I can’t get in there with my pipe cutter I think my only option is the Dremel or angle grinder, but fear it will be a sharp/maybe slanted end

I was mainly thinking of using it so it would make the end perfect again The reamer will only debur the inside won’t it? What about the very end that’s slightly misshaped? Will that matter with the push fit valve? It looks like it grabs the copper pipe around 10mm from the end of the pipe, so...

But have you read my reasons? If so, why wouldn’t it still work fine?

I know they’re only meant for plastic pipes, but I’m connecting two push fit valves to two copper pipes, there is no room at all, and my pipe slicer has ever so slightly deformed the end of the copper pipes. I’m thinking I can get an insert in there which will make the end perfectly round and...

Cheers Terry. I’ve ended up cutting it off (more water than I thought would have come out). I’ve decided to fit some push fit isolation valves instead, for now I’ve just blanked them off and told the wife to use the electric shower we forgot we had lol I’m new to soldering and it’s a really...

Massive problem lol Drained all central heating and left a few hours. Still seems to have water in that pipe as my MAPP torch isn’t doing anything, the solder won’t melt, you can just hear the water cracking away... I can’t even get it hot enough to melt the current solder to remove it! Any...

Thanks One thing that worries me, is not knowing if there’s any water still in the pipes doing this in situ, as it’s a V shape to look at, I fear some water could be sat inside the elbow, hmmmmmm

Just clean down all the pipework with a cloth, flux, heat and solder?

Hey everyone, replacing all my bathroom including plumbing. I’ve connected two 10mm copper pipes with a Yorkshire elbow fitting. This one particular fitting never exposed any silver solder ring like the others, even when more heat was applied (to the point where the flame turned green). The...

Thanks Ian, never thought to shut the valve but it makes total sense now you’ve said it. Is it normal to find drain valves on both the rads and the water pipes? I’m hoping to replace these two 15mm copper pipes with speed fit, which would in effect get rid of the drain valve, but if it’s...

Probably a daft question but... I have two water pipes in a downstairs bathroom sink that have obvious drain valves where the bit tees off that the hose goes on to, but on the radiators there are only these, I’m sure they are, but I can only think I’ll undo them, and water will **** out...