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Many thanks for your advice re driving cold water through to relieve air......you are a Northern Star

Eureka! Fixed dishwasher supply cold pipe to old hot connector....there wasn't one for the washing machine but there was for the dishwasher. Many thanks Bellairaphon....over the moon. I owe you a pint of best Yorkshire!

At the flat now but cannot separate the kitchen tap.....maybe I can disconnect cold and hot supplies at the inline safety valves and then connect the cold supply to the hot and switch the cold on to push the air back. However need to get the right fixings...will check if i have. Also female to...

No, I am pretty sure not so. A video I just saw said if you take off top of mixer taps in kitchen and hold a towel over the exposed outlets and switch on taps it could work? I am not at property at the moment so cannt be sure re hot pipe but pretty dsure not so.

Hi Nathan Pretty certain the washine machine only has cold supply and water heats up in machine.

Thanks, I will check but given it was only fitted about 6 months back unlikely I think

Yes I believe flexi hoses..I did all the work some years back...I am not at the flat so cannot check but think so. However hot tap slow at both upstairs sink and downstairs kitchen sink.I know that my son (he lives there but is in USA currently) put a new kitchen tap on but it worked fine. Are...

Hi, In our spit level flat the hot water to the downstairs kitchen sink has pretty nearly ceased running out of the taps. The upstairs sink is and has always been slow but that I put down to the lack of 'head height' from the hot water (vented) tank. Someone suggested the outlet fromthe tank...

Just going to put credit card details in to buy valve and had another look at the leaking valve....was simple to fix after all. Was loos nut that I hadn't seen before!! Relieved, but thanks for the responses

I think I get what you suggest. I logically can see how the pressure can be that great on the valve that exits the rad. So you suggest that I switch off the flow in the header tank and block the exit from the flow to the system. If I act quickly should be OK I believe. I am not a pro plumber...

Its a one pipe system. I don't get the 'bung it' response. I have a header tank which i can switch off the main cold feed. However can't i just work quickly and take off and attach the valve?

I have a leaking valve, beyond repair. Having recently drained system and installed new pipe run and rads I don't want to drain it again! Am thinking I could shut off rad one end and drain out water. Then quickly take off damaged valve as no pressure will be on it (valve where water exits). I...

Thanks but there will be a way forward I am sure. There is a science to heating, as opposed to a try and see approach...

Thanks for your response. However there must be a calculation as to how many rads a system can take, depending on size and output of rads, length of run and pipework? And of course the boiler. Also I can see that one rad has been added at some point and works fine.

I have a one pipe system on a Ideal Mexico2 boiler. Works well and is serviced by BG as prior owners did so seemed good to continue. I need to add rads x 2 as there are areas that require greater output. I can work under suspended timber/block floor and need to knock through block work to...