Recent content by gec

I'm putting down 19mm floorboarding over my upstairs hallway chipboard. I want a white (ish) finish. Do I use Lime wax on the bare wood or as I've heard, a weak emulsion then sealed with floor varnish or as in a previous topic here, just paint with oil based paint. I would prefer to lime...

I have gone right back to square one. To prove there is no air lock I have reconnected the back boiler pipework and the whole system heats up lovely (this is with the programmer set only to radiators) the radiators come on good and there is hot water in the cylinder. To re-iterate, my hot...

Thanks for your assistance folks, The Valve does operate, the pump does run and the boiler lights when water only is selected. The boiler heats up it's internal tank till extremely hot then stops. Basically the hot water is not circulating away from the boiler tank. As you say "softus" the...

I've had another visit under the floor and as you suggest Nige, it may well be a piping layout problem. It looks to me now, like the return pipes aren't installed correctly. The only return to the boiler is coming from the Radiator circuit. The return connection from water system seems to be...

Can anyone advise me? I'm pulling my hair out with this! I've got an indirect hot water cylinder coming from an Oil boiler via a 3 way port valve. I've got hot water to the tank coil input but very cold at output of coil from tank. Suspecting an air lock in the coil I've refilled the system...