Recent content by tryps

Have no worries about insulting me, my wife does that plenty and I am quite thick skinned. As far as a filling point, there is a water line flowing into the boiler and a confusing loop of pipes running out of the boiler in between the pump, and expansion tank. There are valves aplenty in this...

no, it is a closed system. I hope that I am not in bad form to post to a UK forum. I kinda of assumed the machanics work wherever. I suspect that the previous owners had also neglected to bleed the radiators and that this one was totally empty as a result. I think the third floor room would...

First, we are approaching our second winter season in an older house. THe top two floors are heated by a gas hot water boiler. I have, until today, neglected to bleed the system. I started on the only third floor radiator. The air kept coming and eventually slowed almost to a stop. I close this...