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JohnD, I just realised you live in Hampshire and my house is in Basingstoke. What is the best way to contact you to discuss this offline and make an arrangement for an on site visit? Thanks Nedko

First of all thank you very much for the useful advice. We don't have water storage tank in the loft because we use an unvented cylinder and hence hot and cold water are on main pressure. I hope I understood your question correctly.

I have a Permutit Metered Water softener (from B&Q) and it has been working fine for the last 3 years. Few months ago we let our property and 1 month after the tenants moved in they reported a unacceptable low water pressure if the water is going through the water softener and good pressure when...

Hello, I just bought a new house and the builder told me that the chimney has been lined and it has insulation. When I looked inside up at the chimney opening from the fireplace I can see it is round all the way up. My question is do I need an additional flexible flue liner to be installed to...

Hi All, I have a 2 port Honeywell motorised valve in my central heating which was working fine up untill I powerflushed my system and now when the valve close it cause a water hammer effect (big bang noise in the pipes). The other 2 port valve in my central heating is working fine and...

I've set the EV pressure to 16psi when system pressure was 0 bar and then fill up the system to 1.2 bar. unfortunately that resulted in a bigger gurgling noise from some of the radiators than before. I believe that there is no air in the system because I've bled the rads, pump multiple times but...

Hi, I have sealed system with Keston boiler and I have the system pressure set to 1.8 bars when cold (2.4 bar when hot). I know that it is much higher than the recommended 1-1.2 bars but the only reason I’ve set it to be so high is that if I set it on recommended pressure (e.g. 1 bar) I can hear...

It seems that I might have found a solution. Following the advice of the previous post the only suspicious thing on the inlet site of my pump was the expansion vessel. I've pumped addition 5psi into to the air part of the EV and the "washing machine like" noise seemed to disappear straight...

Andy, did you get your problem resolved? unfortunately I don't have a solution for you but have the same problem so I was wondering if you find what was causing the noise? Thanks

Chris the pressure was lower that before 1Bar vs 1.4Bar. However when I topped up the water pressure to 1.4Bar then I don't see such a big drop (I would say 0.1 max). Is there any relation between the water pressure and the pressure drop when the pump starts? More over now that I put the...

It seems to be the air which I can't get rid of unfortunately. I've done everything that I'm aware of: Step 1. Drained and refilled the system by bleeding all the rads and a pump also ensuring that the auto air vents are not shut. Result: CH was working fine for 2 days and after that some...

Chris the pressure gauge is at the EV which is at the input site of the pump but is the water pressure drop of 0.4 bar normal? The reason I'm asking is that before I drained and refilled my CH this was not happening. The only difference that I can recall is that I increased the Air pressure of...

Hi, I have sealed central heating system with Keston condensing boiler. I've drained the system recently and refilled it. I've also set my EV pressure to ~1Bar (15psi) when the system was drained. After I've bled all the rads and pump few times I'm experiencing the 0.3-0.4 Bar instant...

DOITALL thanks once again for your help. Your and CrisR ideas definitely helped me to fix my problem and I guess that is what this forum is all about. Unfortunately some times there is a lot of junk coming with it but after all I find it useful. Thanks once again