Recent content by MrsS

Hi John Nothing that looks anything like either of those! That was just the sort of thing I was looking for before I posted on here, thinking that it couldn't be very difficult to drain a heating system by myself. I must have been delusional. I think I had also assumed that the guy who...

Hi John Thanks again. The radiator system goes from boiler to upstairs, then feeds the downstairs ones from above. The only way that seemed to drain anything was to undo the bleed holes and let the water come out. I did this to the downstairs radiators, assuming that I was draining the...

Thank you John. The boiler is a Heatslave combi. (I suspect the tenant took it out of another house to install it, and I'm aware that it is now obsolete....). Thanks for info about the loft tank - I was worrying that it may have been the original header tank and was going to need a bucket...

Hi Can anyone give me some hints on how to drain the central heating system off a Worcester 15/19 boiler? The house owner lives abroad and the tenants (who installed the second-hand boiler) have done a runner, and I need to sort it out before the real cold sets in. I have turned off the...