Recent content by Helg

Have similar problem, water overflows into small f&e tank, about one bucket every 30 mins, is slightly rusty colored, have traditional system, hw cylinder 30+ years, pumped heating, vented system, radiators also mostly quite old (30+ years), heating works well, NOW MY PROBLEM - one plumber says...

have an old system, large water tank and small f&e tank on loft, hot water cylinder on first floor, boilder on ground floor (Ideal Mexico Super C 125, vintage 1987, works well though had new stat put in recently). Would really like to just change HWC and leave everything else in place, though...

Have old gravity Heating system, old Potterton (32 ys, in good shape), HWC and small and large water tank in loft above. May need to change HWC as F&E tank has overflow, suspected hole in coil. Happy to get new HWC, vented/indirect again, but would like to know if this like for like change will...

Thanks, only have thermostat on boilder (Ideal Mexico CF125, vintage 1987), water stays boiling hot even if stat on boilder down to 1-2, onle plumber suggested putting in a new stat (if one can find it, only source seems to be ebay). Not sure his will do the trick. No stat on hw cylinder as...

tried four (!!) plumbers on this, finally the overflow has slowed down to a trickle, just under a bucket in 24 hrs, for long periods no overflow at all have traditional vented indirect system, small and large water tank one cause for overflow could be that hot water is VERY hot, so I might have...

Immersion heater is switched off, overflow goes into small tank is regular, but very little, maybe one bucket a day, first thought it has to be leak in coil, but after the hot water problem came into the picture and i did bit of research on it the possibility that too much hot water in cylinder...

Thank you Herts and John, you guys deserve a medal. Pull my hair out - spoke to FOUR (!!) plumbers/had them in my house, all I REALLY would love to know is this: What steps do I have to take to sort out the system SYSTEM NOW: Indirect system, Potterton boiler works fine despite age (32 ys), Hot...

this is the valve (Cultrol Valve?) if found on a pipe close to bottom of hot water tank

For a while our running water is scalding hot, read somewhere it could be a faulty Cyltrol Valve - as layman I never heard of it before, could not find a stat on hot water cylinder (32 yrs old, we have traditional indirect heating sytem). In addition there is a trickling overflow into small...

Flat roof is in need of some tender love, confused about all the different products. Have tried some before, esp the paint-on ones (Thompson, Acrypol,Cromapol), but not sure they are that effective, esp as they are only a thin layer of paint. Spotted a video about Watco Roofite, not in typical...

This is maybe related to another problem I posted about a few days ago, but a new problem has now come up As mentioned, by mistake shut down water supply into house, was off a few hours and realised only when all taps went dry. Got system running again, switched on taps starting from highest one...

yes, small tank is overflowing, and PICASSO - ask again as plumbers give different opinions, so try to find a workable solution

Blocked water supply in house by mistake, then got it back, followed suggested routine, start from highest outlet down, supply restored but since then f&e tank overflows, ever so slightly, occasionally the overflow stops but during 24 hrs about 3-4 buckets collect. Get conflicting advice from...

By-pass on pipes into water softener, so no water went into house at all for a while, until my wife screamed 'There is no water', then opended the by-pass, slowly water returned to all the taps, started opening them from highest one first, lots of bubbling, but they came on one after the other...

Have traditionalvented indirect heating system. F&E and large water tank in loft. All worked well until my watersofterner gave up the ghost. While fiddling around with it I shut down bypass valve by accident. Water in house ran out. Got that sorted again. But ever since the F&E tank is...