Recent content by poinsonpoker

ive been a muppet! i have unscrewed knurled ring that the plastic top was originally attached to......i only need this part! no mucking around with the rest as i originally thought. bit worried why it was leaking though!! will fix a new top and see what happens!! cheers everyone for...

i see your point chris The valve is quite new though so im hoping all is ok. the problem is that the previous owners had sumhow managed to snap the plastic valve clean off! i am holding it!! we have been in the house for 7mths now and there have been no probs, we have just left it...

i have an unvented system im afraid. thanks anyway

hahaa, i know what you mean! im pretty quick at replacing rads so i cant see this as being too major! i may give it a go and see what happens?

its a nice vinyl!! not so much of a problem! how long does it take to replace the TRV, only a couple of minutes i would have thought! what do you think?

is there any way that i can replace a trv without draining the CH system? ive heard a few bad things about using freeze spay. what do you think? PD :twisted:

Thanks Tony, i think it might be to do with the filling loop as well. it sounds like the boiler is still filling up through this even though it is turned off. Should there be just a screw at each end of the filling loop to allow water to pass through?!? Thanks again PD

hi there, can you help? we have been removing rads to plaster all of the walls. we currently have 1 still off Last night, hot water went. I went to the bolier and pressure was on zero. so i opened the filling loop slightly. only opened for about 5 seconds.....pressure just kept rising. was...