Recent content by buckmoy

.....I hid in shame for days but can now report that yes - simply tightening the gland nut worked. Took ages to get a spanner in there and find the nut, totally blind and only able to get one arm in the hole, but thanks for the advice.

Hi all. Got a weird one. House which was converted from flats. There are two stop cocks - one where you'd expect on ground floor, another half way up the house which shuts off top two floors of water only. This second stop cock is only accessible through a wall mounted hatch (and you have to...

No, there is no grub screw

OK. Think I may have a problem.. parts A and B in the pic below both unscrew. If I unscrew B only, I get to see C, which looks to the cartridge. Problem is, gap to access is only about 1mm when B is horizontal (in pic below B is tilted forwards by as much as it will go, exposes about 3mm) Any...

@Old&Cold , or anyone, any idea what these are? Thanks!

Hopefully below now are some pictures (used drag and drop instead of forum's media function)

Oh. There are pictures (and there were some in the first post - @Old&Cold 's first reply now makes sense if they aren't visible). I can see them on the desktop / chrome version of the forum but not on my iphone... will try and see if I can fix pic view

Thanks @Old&Cold! Here are some more pics. One tap is partially dissembled, the other not, to aid in tap identification.. Yes I have most tools IMG_3483 by buckmoy posted 7 Aug 2018 at 3:49 PM IMG_3482 by buckmoy posted 7 Aug 2018 at 3:49 PM IMG_3481 by buckmoy posted 7 Aug 2018 at 3:49 PM...

Hello all I have a dripping hot tap in a bathroom. Hard water area so am guessing limescale. Taps by buckmoy posted 7 Aug 2018 at 1:55 PM I can't see how to open up the tap to have a look. I was expecting an allen key screw underneath somewhere to enable the housing to be removed, but there...

Cheers John - perfect good idea will do that. There is a drain cock but its at knee height..?! Onwards and upwards..

Hello Is it OK to drain a CH system into the subfloor? Just once, to change a rad. Wooden joists, victorian house, subfloor is just what you'd expect under a 100 year old house I guess, compacted soil type stuff. Thanks

Thanks Tony - the rads get hot eventually but it takes ages (about 90 minutes (only 3 rads on circuit, one floor of a house)), as the CH circuit is only being heated in short bursts. Also thanks SimonD - HW works OK...on demand it gets hot, then very hot, then cools a bit, then very hot again...

Prob shouldn't have needed to google that, but yes - flow valves are open

Thanks Gordongas, I will have a look (on google and the boiler) to see. I assumed sludge or scale due to the boiler previously making noise like a prop plane going overhead - but that went away after it was drained to have a new rad fitted. So I guessed it had kind of moved on Anyway will...

Hello all. Got a Vailant Turbomax 824/e which I've been trying to keep alive for a few years. It had a diverter valve changed recently by a great gas engineer (as HW had stopped working but CH was fine). HW is now OK, but I am now getting some bad kettling when CH comes on - boiler fires, temp...