Recent content by Silverpenny

I'm replacing a 1700mm bath, the recess is actually about 1720, tiled down to the floor, and not square. How would you normally fill this 20mm (or so) gap? I'm thinking of installing the bath so the gap is at the shower end, as because of the non-squareness I'm going to have to do something...

I've noticed there is a small (45V AC or so to earth) voltage on the pipes feeding my central heating radiators around the house. I'm guessing this is just pick up but I'd like to get rid of it. Where should I bond the pipework to earth (as apparently it isnt currently)? My boiler is in the...

I'm lucky, the airlock affecting the hot water system seems to have cleared itself and everything is back to normal. Still curious to know where my 3 port valve is, no mention of it in the potterton literature but i guess it must be near the boiler somewher??

Everything was working fine until I had to drain the system down to replace some radiator taps, after refilling no hot water, radiators wouldn't fill/vent and of course boiler only ran for a minute at a time until cutting out. After reading other posts I put mains pressure hose down the...