Recent content by dantheram

What’s the best way to drain a system like this? Is it a case of tying up the ballcock in the loft and then opening the lowest radiator?

Load of black crappy water has come out, had to stop to get more newspaper to soak up spills though

It’s a constant stream mate - is there a way I can stop it? I thought maybe it would stop but I’ve drained at least 2 pints off it, without it slowing at all.

Would be simple if the stupid valves worked - they’re still letting a small amount of water through. Which leads me to ask, how do I drain the system? Not done one before.

Ordered this one https://www.heatingandcateringparts.com/product/grundfos-alpha2-15-60-130-circulator-pump-98119377-auto-adapt/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlLmctKOwggMVyZGDBx1weQacEAQYASABEgJPGfD_BwE Cheers for the help

Yeah I’ve seen better valves

Looks a simple one on the face of it, I’m pretty good with plumbing. Any ideas how to find a pump :)

Hi all I suspect that this pump is broken, when I turn the power supply on it is buzzing and becoming very hot to touch. How do I replace this, assuming the part, or substitute, is still available?

i was thinking to pack it out with 10mm / 8mm fire rope and cement it in as per usual

hi all, i'm replacing the flue on my stove and the pipe i ordered (125mm bore) sits as below in the collar is this packable with fire cement - the one i took out sat a few mm closer to the collar is all?

First thing I did, but the old olive was too battered for this to work

How do you know? Is there a way to tell?

Because I took end of the ribbed pipe out and tried to remove the old olives, the pipe wasn’t in good condition so I tried to cut them back but the damn pipe cutter crushed the pipe and has left me with not enough pipe to work with. I thought I’d I could get the old ribbed pipes off I could...

Will these do it...

Hi all I need to replace the funny ribbed pipes coming from the tap tails as the ends going into the iso valves are leaking. Is it easy to remove the copper push fit joints and replace with new ones? And then replace the ribbed pipes back to the iso valves?