Recent content by Wee Man

Probably did use the wrong stuff, should have asked on here first, but you live and learn as they say :D Took about 4 hrs to do. Wasn't in too much of a hurry, more concerned with not spilling black gunge on the new carpets :evil:

After weeks of waiting on the chemical flush doing its stuff and failing miserably, I drained the central heating and took all the radiators off. Didn't make a mess for once :lol: . Flushed them out in the back garden, turning it to a mud bath in the process :? . The colour of the stuff...

Cheers for the encouragment :D

God I hate central heating!!!!!!! Still trying to balance system. Gonna need a big FLUSH out I think :cry:

Cheers guys. That seems to have helped a bit. Still think I've got a sludge problem. Will give it another day for the chemicals to do their stuff. If not I might take the radiators off and flush them out with a hose :twisted:

Thanks Bahco, will give that a try. :D Still sifting through the search list on balacing radiators, there are just one of two :shock:

Whats wrong with calling myself Wee Man? Your named after a brand of adjustable spanner! My real name is Gregg. And yes I am genuine, don't know if there had been a problem with another member calling themself Little Old Man/Lady etc etc

What's the best way to balance all the radiators? I know next to nothing about central heating.

Cheers for the advice, nothing suspect about me. Not very tall, so my mates call me Wee Man :D

Over the last week or so 4 or my downstairs radiators have gone luke warm. The radiators up stairs are fine. Today I drained the system and put a flusher chemical through it. I know this might take a while to work. I then went to bleed the radiators. The top ones bled fine, lots of air...