Recent content by Dotski

ha ha I did give him a clip round the ear for the auto air vent. I have read a few other topics regarding problems with horizontal cylinders not venting....hope I'm not going to get recuring problems. Big thanks Matt

Thanks matt1e. I fitted an auto air vent after going through all that grief so fingers crossed, though I shouldn't really need to cross'em? There does seem to be a design issue here?

Hi. I'm a general builder and have a basic knowledge in plumbing. I have recently had a 'Manco' horizontal cylinder installed in a clients loft next to a new boiler. The boiler and cylinder seem to have been installed properly as all runs well except for hot water. Basically the cylinder...

Do you mean the boiler...Grant Vortex Pro 15/21? Whats a tiger loop? Thanks

Can anyone please advise me as to whether oil would need pumping (in some way) if I have an oil tank installed 30mtrs from my property? The tank would be below the level of the boiler. Thanks

Guys. I have £1000 budget for a new oil fired combi boiler, any ideas. Also I've found a BUDERUS CAMRAY 5 inc flue kit for £799.99 plus del...any good?

Moving into a listed house with lovely (not) crital windows. At the moment there is no heating other than fire places. Next door have the same set up but have a log burner. They suffer with condensation as we do. Will installing CH make any difference? Also thinking of installing a log burner...

Get some 'plumbers mait' in there

I understand the principle of the non return valve, in that its purpose is to stop back siphonage, but would that still not stop the flow of air? (I'm assuming that the air is feeding back through the tap)

If it is air...would a check valve do the trick?

The tank's fine as are all the other hot taps

Yes

I have just fitted new bath taps as the hot had/has an intermittent flow. ( I thought I was an air block originally and so ran a hose from the kitchen to the bath hot and flushed it through....It worked fine for a day or so and then fell to about 50% flow. I then thought it was the tap valve...

Thanks fitz1

Just moved into a house which has 13 radiators fitted...the things is that only 6 of the rads have TRVs, can anyone think why. The rooms with out TRVs are too hot so I'm thinking of fitting some. Do I drain the system down, bleed rads, fit valves (which end of rad?) close bleed valves, fill...