Recent content by Fitzchiv

cheers Mick, alright to take the head off without bleeding the system? Just a note on jamming it open, seems like the system will just keep heating water and chucking it round the rads whilst it's jammed open - so although it's a way of getting heat into the radiators it's not something you...

Nice one, cheers for your time tonight - appreciate it!

any risk of knackering things further if I do wedge it?

nice one. Have had a play around with that valve and if I hold the level across in the open position (has to be all the way across mind) it engages and I get some heat into the radiators. Unfortunately seems like it's got to be held in place like that though, as latching it across doesn't...

yeh if I push it open it whirrs back into the previous setting out of interest, what's a rough going rate on replacing one of these? Or is that a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question

ok thanks all, so the general consensus seems to be the valve from the CH is goosed (just to confirm, the black lever works fine on both so nothing is seized) Would you expect one of these to just go full stop, or work intermittently? As I said, it tends to be a case of works sometimes and...

Tried seing if Pump was sticking, by holding manual level on valve head to the left to force water through and changing the speed settings. Could hear the difference so don't think it's that. As for the black indicator, it's hard to tell what it's on - if I push it there are no identifiable...

Hi, I'm a novice when it comes to central heating and boilers so forgive me for any daft statements/questions in this. Bought a property over the summer with a baxi backboiler heating system. Had been serviced in March, and works (worked) fine. Plan was to leave it until Feb when we're...