Partly out of interest; partly to preserve a little bit of the original (although I take your point that unless I use heritage materials, it...
OK. Thanks. It's a Grade 2 Listed building, although it's had some bad and some sad things done to it (mostly before it was listed) - including to...
Well, that gets to the heart of the question! So, not possible, or not advisable, then?
Early Victorian house. A section of a lath and plaster porch ceiling has collapsed due to water ingress. The source of the leak was identified and...
The main problem with that is the increasing rarity of wire coat hangers....
Sorry to revive an old thread, but similar concern for a recently fitted rcd fcu brought me to this thread. My unit has a red indicator showing,...
(If I'd been sure of the best course of action I wouldn't have come on here in the first place!) Actually I did follow some of the suggestions on...
Yes, limited experience, so didn't want to risk making things worse when I knew I couldn't get hold of our heating engineer over the holiday...
Yup. Made a mistake there.
Thanks for that. OK, I'll admit I was wrong about where the leak was coming from, but maybe a photo would have only shown what I, (and the rest of...
Apperciate the request for a photo, but not sure it would tell you much more than I can with words. Control screw in centre of ISO valve is...
YES. The screw in the centre of the ISO valve. Its a gravity fed system, so no chance to release the pressure from the system in that way as...
OK. Not leaking from the nut on the rad side...it's the screw that controls the isolating valve that's leaking. Turning it to off slightly...
Yes. isolators on the feed and return. End of the isolator nearest to the radiator on the feed pipe is leaking. Gravity fed system. TRV on the...
Although...if the TRV is working, and I close off the other end, I shouldn't need to empty the radiator as there'd only be the water in the pipe...
That's really helpful. Thank you!
Sorry, can't manage that at the moment. Its definitely leaking from the nut on the radiator side of the isolation valve.
Yes.
Not much room for a "pot"...the pipe is about 2 cm above floor (carpet) level. The most I can put in is a shallow plastic container that fills...
Yes, I did turn the radiator off, at both ends, but it didn't seem to make much difference. The radiator went cold, but it's one of those...
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