Recent content by Birdthom

I'm not sure as I didn't do any of the installation, but I suspect plastic piping was used to move the rad in the front room, which I guess would need a compression joint where it meets the old copper pipework. As you can tell I'm no pro, but does that sound about right?

Oh dear. I tried the plastic bag trick. Nothing is coming out of the PRV (the bag has only maybe 10ml in it) but the pressure has dropped to zero and been topped back up again about 3 or 4 times in the last 24 hours. I guess this means there is a pretty big leak somewhere in our system. It's...

thanks - I'll try it now. *rummages around in desk for rubber band and plastic bag*

Evening all I have a Ferroli Modena 102 which is a few years old. For the last few months we have been having to top up the central heating system constantly. I'll top it up to 1.5 bar and leave the heating running as normal, but then after a little while (could be an hour or a day, sometimes...