Recent content by James29

That's great advice - many thanks.

My house must be the draftiest in England. We can't have Cavity Wall insulation as apparently the cavities are not deep enough - anyone ever heard of this? Anyway, we have airbricks on the walls upstairs - one in the bathroom and two in the toilet (at foot and high level). There are also...

Doitall managed to sort this - for which I am very grateful. After some diagnostics, we discovered that my plumber had fitted 2-way thermostatic valves on the return. So, we had two options : a) either purchase full flow thermostatic valves designed for use in one-pipe systems - see...

Many thanks for all the advice that's been posted - I'm very grateful. Doitall - I will contact you via your profile after the weekend if that OK. Thanks.

Thanks for that. Im very grateful indeed. When you say balancing do you mean varying (and I apologise for the non-technical descriptions).... 1. the thermostatic valves on the right hand side of each radiator. 2. the valve at the left of each radiator that controls the flow of water. 3...

Hi - Just had 4 new modern radiators installed downstairs. Previously, all radiators in the house were hot. Now, the upstairs ones still get hot as before but only 2 of the four downstairs do - seemingly at random. We have a one-pipe system apparently and the plumber (who fitted the new...