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  1. M

    Balancing central heating

    Perfect, thank you. That's how I first understood it but other responses made we think I was wrong. Now to do the job.
  2. M

    Balancing central heating

    I'm becoming confused! I've looked up lockshield and almost everywhere says something like "..... “lockshield” valve — the one at the opposite end of the radiator to the main on/off wheel valve". Muggles says the inlet side gets hot first, that's the left one on all my rads. 45years seems to...
  3. M

    Balancing central heating

    Sorry, my inability to explain things properly :-( It's the valves on the left of the radiators which have caps (as opposed to knobs) on them which are all fully open. I'm obviously wrong in thinking this is the inlet side.
  4. M

    Balancing central heating

    New property to me with old CH system. I guess the pipework and rads are around 20-25 years old but the boiler is less than 18 months old. A couple of the radiators are not as hot as others so I did a bit of googling and discovered all about balancing. Checked the inlet side of each radiator...
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