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My wife insists on warm towels in both summer and winter. I have a towel warmer/rad. which is plumbed to the heating side of my system and is cold in the summer. I thought about putting it on to the hot water side but then it will be cold when the boiler shuts down when it has satisfied the...

Thanks for your help so far.The engineer says that the system will only loose a very small amount of water over a year and the spirovent will eliminate any air in the fresh water. Is this not better than perished seals etc? However the system is 25 years old. Will this make it more prone to...

I have a 25 year old system. The boiler/cylinder and some controles are being replaced to upgrade the system. Also a power flush. The heating engineer suggested installing a spirovent instead of inhibiter-"take away the air and you can`t get any corrosion". Fitting a combi I think. Regards Frank

Has anybody fitted a "SPIROVENT" deaerator to a domestic heating system? Is this better than useing inhibitor? Any feedback please. Thanks Frank

I want to move my feed & expansion tank to the other side of my loft where the roof is lower. Can anyone tell me the min. height that the expansion pipe should be above the tank?The system has pumped domestic hot water. Thanks Frank