Recent content by Bobbbyboy

Many Thanks to all for your input. Tony - I think I am being a little overactive as you put it, but I am not "looking for air", the top rung of the towel radiator is cold and I am bleeding it because of that. I am needing to do that very few days now. I will be patient and see if it...

He seems to shrug it off when I speak to him as being normal saying that air will always collect in the highest point, which I am fully aware of. My question was after a complete draindown and refill how long should I need to rebleed? and how long is too long to keep manually bleeding...

Evening All, Our old boiler recently gave up the ghost so bit the bullett and our local heating engineer installed a Baxi Solo 18HE condensor. The house is a 4 bed detached about 10 years old with a vented system with a mix of 15mm standarad and microbore pipes to the radiator. The boiler...

Thanks for the info all. Mysteryman - my pump is set to speed 2 out of 3. Are you suggesting that I lower it to setting 1, can you also explain how that might help? It's a 4 bed detached house, wouldn't that speed be a bit slow, would there be any other implications apart from taking longer...

That made interesting reading, it would appear that that could be the problem with my system. So, can anyone answer the following qs: 1. Can I leave well alone and just put up with the small clunking noise of the diverter. 2. Would any additive reverse my swollen balls!? 3. Would...

Thanks for the quick response....yes they were genuine honeywell parts. There may also be something in the inhibitor idea, many people have mentioned on the web that fernox has cuased issues, and I did find a box of Fernox MB1 up near the header tank in the lo#ft, that I assume the previous...

Hi all, I'm hoping a plumber or heating engineer can offer me some advice.... Basically I have an open vented CH system, which uses a Honeywell V4073A 3 port mid-position valve to control heating to water and/or the radiators. On moving into the house in Oct 2008 a new one was...