Recent content by markyboy100

Thanks to some help from other forums and some more reading I'm largely sorted for now. On the 3-port valve, I read elsewhere that they only rotate by 10 degrees or so, so I wrongly assumed that they should move more. Also, someone else pointed out to me that simply turning the boiler...

It's an old Potterton 16-22. It certainly sounds like it is clicking in and out. I've got its front thermostat set to full on. An update. I left the system for 2 hours to cool and have now just turned on semi-successfully. I started with HW; the boiler fired for a while and the airing...

My wife and 3 young children are thanking me for this... I had a cold rad when I turned the heating on this season, so tried to balance the system today (I took a while to get around to the job...). I turned off all other rads, ensured this one was bled and fired up the central heating. No...