Recent content by plumb_boy

Thanks for that Moz, now I know its only the male menopause I can sleep at night lol! Thanks for the pointer on the holiday, I will see what the wife says? :shock: (besides I can't think what the third young lady would do, a foot massage)? There is famous book called Catch 22 where one...

As I am extreamely close to the next number that comes after 39 years of age I was searching the Net for info on the aging process and came on these bleak lines about Time. There is also strong evidence that time seems to go faster as you get older. (Do we leave the problem-solving mode as we...

Sorry Off Topic! Just want to say Masona has a simply splendid phase at foot of his posts, he may have created it himself of pinched it.....who cares, nice one!

Thanks for that. I noted that the cistern in the loft drained fully when the water was removed and filled fully later when turned on.(plastic cistern) The down stairs rads still had water at the bleed screws (could have been residual) when water was fully dropped out via the boiler? I tried...

Can you help me? I have a gravity fed heating system (10mm pipe) in a small house, the rads are stone cold down stairs but red hot up stairs! I dropped all the water out that would come out via cock on the Glowworm boiler and then filled up again. To find ALL rads would not heat up at all?? The...

Thanks for all the contributions to my post, the advice was very useful! I moved the room stat to the "hall" (bottom of the stairwell, not close to exterior doorway) and it now works a treat, heating all the rooms :D Cheers

I noticed a wet (soggy) patch in my nice laminate flooring in my bathroom, behind the toilet! I checked first and foremost the inlet and outlets for WC operation, as I was very careful when fitting the pot all seals including the "doughnut" between pan and cistern was fine! Then I discover a...

Sounds good Blahblah, What function has the bypass got, is it a safeguard against system over heating? If I still have the room stat working that will turn the boiler off won't it?

For some reason my 4 bedroom house has a room stat in our living room, after that we have to heat a huge stairwell before the other rooms. So I was thinking of just putting TRV's on all the rads in each room to better use my precious gas! WHAT do I do with the redundant room stat in the living...

Can anyone put me in the picture. We are moving into a property with an oil-fired combi boiler, should anything go wrong with it am I able to work on the boiler myself. I know hiring a registered, qualified, certified trades person is the best option for working on heating systems but this not...

Cheers guys, but it would work fine for the sink but not too good for the washing machine HW. How would I meet the hot requirements for the machine, or would a lecky water heater do as well for this? Thanks

Can anyone suggest the correct procedure to run hot and cold to an out-house for using a washing machine, sink etc?? It has to come out a back kitchen wall and under a patio and up through the wash house floor. I have used Denso tape before, but this offers little in insulation and the last...

Drain it and use brass reducers! I once "froze" my 10mm coated CH pipes to change a rad, using top notch rothenberger freezing kit down to about -15! I thought if it looks like an ice-pop then ALL IS SWEET. Not so, with coated 10mm pipe it does an excellent job of insulating the pipe. Took the...

I really wish Arthur C Clark was here in this forum to kick all our butt's on this one! :shock: Number crunching and astrological hypotheses you guys are wasted!

Cold water tanks/cisterns are quite easy to change as long at you don't alter the capacity (bigger or smaller). If all your mains cold water feed is knocked off and no fuses have popped you are ok now I would say. Check out this link to our old mates screwfix who do a range of plastic, which is...