Recent content by renard80

Thanks for that useful advice, tamz.. It's an expansion vessel he is thinking of installing, but as both She and Me are well stricken in years, I don't fancy the idea of either of us having to clamber up into the loft every so often to keep an eye on it. He says another option is to move...

Just one more thing: My bloke is suggesting that when fitting the bypass he also removes the header tank and replaces it with some sort of new-fangled expansion thingy (??) with a pressure indicator. He says I would have to inspect it at least once a year and top it up if necessary. He...

Many thanks to everyone for their helpful replies. I had the heating engineer in today and he thinks he has identified the cause. :D On our old system (25 years old . . . ), the pump stopped instantly when both motorised valves (CH and hot water) closed through lack of demand or at the...

Many thanks, tripty. They had set the pump on setting 3 (max), so following your advice I turned it down to 2 (medium) last night. However - and this I don't understand - late this morning it suddenly did it again for about five minutes, even though the central heating was off and only...

We have just had a new condensing boiler installed (Worcester Bosch 24Ri), CH system flushed and TRVs fitted. The engineer recommended we set the boiler temperature at about three-quarters of the dial. Our radiators now seem much hotter than previously, as does the hot tap water despite...