Recent content by topdrive

cheers , will get me some of that next week before i drop the cleaner out

it was a relief this morning to get up and find - 1 bar in the system. need to get it dosed up tonight - some fernox cleaner to go in for now. can any one suggest a good all in one inhibitor/antifreeze for the system - its an external combi. we get extended power cuts during winter...

Sorted. Suspected the pressure gauge was shot , i was right , stuck my pump on the expansion vessel Pressured the system back up. 1 bar in the vessel . Put pressure in the system , up to 2 bar . Gauge reads zero. Put gauge to 1 bar and it reads 2 , so the boiler trips the prv when it...

Got a grant vortex 26e Couple years old had a new expansion vessel and prv fitted not so long ago - was dropping pressure over a couple of weeks before this. Now its started gurgling the radiators upstairs at 4am when the heatings due to come on and dumping pressure somewhere. Yet it...

first post here , probably first of many im sure. Ive got a 4 foot ventilated airgap under my floor. the floor its self is a sectional steel reinforced concrete sitting on top of brick foundations. The dirt on the floor of the crawl space is damp to touch after heavy rain due to...