Recent content by RandomTask23

Hi, I'm looking for some advice please. I live in a semi-detached house and last year my neighbour and I both separately got planning permission for rear extensions that would share the party wall line. Theirs is a full-width rear extension and ours is a smaller half-width rear extension that...

Hi, I'm looking for a bit of independent advice. I have a 2 storey extension (12sqm) with a flat roof on my house that was built about 30+years ago. I believe it was last re-roofed 15+years ago and is a felt and gravel design. There is no sign of leaks at present but before I start...

UPDATE: Everything is working fine now! Although no actual problem was found I think your idea of a circulation problem must have been right. Our heating engineer checked the pump (working fine and clean as a whistle) and did a few other tests to check for blockages and to look at the...

Hi, Can anyone help to diagnose the problem with my heating. I have a Veissmann Vitodens 100W (under 3 years ago). Over the last week days the performance has dropped to the point where our heating and water are only luke warm at best. From observing the boiler for a while this is what is...

Following the everyones helpful suggestions I have done some measuring and then some calculations regarding the size of my rads and boiler capacity. Here are my findings... Using the calculator on the HomeSupply website I estimate my rads need to output about 7kW. Using the whole house...

Sorry for not being clear. I actually meant that it sounds like I might be able to recover the cost of installing the weather comp not the whole boiler system. Interesting comment about not having a TRV on the rad by the room stat. Currently the rad in the hall does have a TRV but it doesn't...

Thanks for the great replies. It's good to know that I was thinking along the right lines. Although the current rads are old they do kick out plenty of heat (and that's with them half sludged up!) so I'd guess that they might be oversized if anything...I'll use the links to the calculations to...

Hi, I've recently moved house into an extended 4 bed semi built in the 1950s. The house currently has an ancient Ideal Mexico boiler with 11 old "radiating" radiators (rather than newer "convecting" radiators). I have been looking into changing the boiler and have obtained a few quotes to do so...