Recent content by jamborta

I'll certainly keep it. We have moved in only a few months ago, and this is the first time it rains for a longer period of time. I have removed the plastic wrap, but the lid itself is not sufficient to keep the rain out. Wondering how it was done by the Victorians?

That's amazing, thanks for the replies (didn't know such a thing exsists). I found iron lid, hidden under the door mat. @bobasd that top pipe is actually the incoming eletricity that connects to the meter.

We have a very old basement, that I think is waterproofed near the end. Just noticed today that water is leaking in from the ceiling, which has a kind of hole with some sort of metal object attached to it (rusty and wrapped in plastic), seems that water leaks around that metal object. Could...

Hi, I have just moved to a house where an ESWA heating system is installed. It consists of a thermostat in every room and a switch which can be turned to 'high' or 'low' (but it seems if I turn it to 'low' it gets warmer in the living room), I couldn't find anything else to control the system...

hi, I have this strange thing about my central heating recently. after shutting down some of the radiators, and reopening them again after a while, they don't get warm any more. I tried bleeding them, and it seems that some warm water gets into them after draining out some water from the...

the air stops coming out and nothing after. yes, i'm on the top floor. no access to the loft either. :(

do you think if I just keep doing this bleeding, it won't solve the problem?

it's an old house divided into flats, and the boiler is locked, so people in the house can't put it on whenever they want...

dear all, I moved to a house where I can't have an access to the boiler, so I can't really check how it works. I have a problem that in my flat the radiator only gets warm at the bottom. So I tried to bleed it, but after a while the air stopped coming out, if I repeat it 30 min later some...