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    See-sawing? Air in system.

    Hi - We've had on-going problems with our central heating and hot water circuit since we moved in just over a year ago - basically, continuous bleeding of the bathroom rad and hot water vent (next to HW storage tank) has been required to expel air that is getting in somewhere. I've drained...
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    adding lights to dining area

    I want to add a couple of ceiling lights (recessed down-lighters probably) in my dining room and this is a simple enough job to do, if it wasn't for Part P. We moved into the property at the end of March 2006 and I've already had to sort a couple of wiring issues (permissable under Part P)...
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    Gurgling/water flowing noises from boiler-no CH switched on

    Well the insructions I had didn't mention anything about the HW circuit so I assumed just draining the CH circuit left the other one alone. Lesson learnt there then. Here's what I did anyway: -valve on ballcock in expansion tank was seized so tank wouldn't refill anyway, but loads of...
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    Gurgling/water flowing noises from boiler-no CH switched on

    I'll see what I can do on the pics front. So, when I drained the rads when I moved a radiator, would that have drained the hot water circuit too? I have 3 drain points on the rads in the lounge, dining room and the hall. Having listened to the noises in different locations at 06:30 this...
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    Gurgling/water flowing noises from boiler-no CH switched on

    Fortunately, the previous owners had kept all the documents relating to the system and even a wiring diagram of what's what: Boiler is a Baxi Solo wall mounted RS and I have the documents for a 3 port motorised valve (HSV3), a spring return diverter valve, a PTT2 electronic cylinder...
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    Gurgling/water flowing noises from boiler-no CH switched on

    Well, as a complete newbie to plumbing, I guessed that as the systems are meant to contain water and not air, they should be sealed and no air should get in. However, I was informed by a couple of plumbers (and this site somewhere) that it was due to the drop fed rads. No, I couldn't figure...
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    Gurgling/water flowing noises from boiler-no CH switched on

    Back in March, we moved into a house which has a ground floor extension with radiators being fed from pipework from above. Thanks to this site, I found out that this was the reason why the small radiator in the bathroom always needed bleeding. I\\\'ve now fitted an automatic bleed valve to...
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