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Hi all, I plan to install a new socket high on a bedroom (stud) wall for a TV. The other side of the wall is a large airing cupboard where I can access the ring main. Ideally I want to make the TV installation as clean and clutter free as possible. I can't decide whether to: a.) install...

The floors are suspended both upstairs and downstairs. I don't have any particular reason to suspect that the pipes are in the walls, I just genuinely have no idea as any DIY I have done myself in the past have been on a 50s house with brick walls and floor boards so its all a bit new to me...

It's copper pipe, and it's a system boiler (mains water is heated via the cylinder). All the radiators seem to perform ok.

Hi all, I moved in to a 90s house recently and want to start doing some decorating etc. The house has microbore piping to the radiators and it is not something that I know anything about really. Through my father in law (who knows much more about plumbing than me) and a bit of googling, I...

Thanks for this, I have never tried that before and will give it a try.

Brilliant, thanks so much for your help Terry. It is very much appreciated.

Good point. There has definitely been a leak in the airing cupboard where the cylinder is at some point in the past so I will keep a close eye when turning the valve on. So is the HW that resides in the cylinder pumped around the radiators and I don't have to worry about pressure etc, I just...

Thanks. I guess I should chuck in some inhibitor at the same time. So I guess going back to my original query, if I lose water via a radiator removal etc, the header tank should refill automatically to compensate for this. Is this correct?

So should I open the valve and the ball cock should take care of automatically topping it up? I wonder why the valve is off...a bit worrying.

Can you explain the reason for doing this? It's currently empty (not sure if it should be) but I don't really understand the function of it. I had no problems with heating since I moved in a year ago and haven't touched that valve. Thanks

Sorry for the delay in getting back. Discovered my stopcock was seized today while testing turning the water off and it took a bit of wrestling to unsieze it. Glad I found out now rather than when I really needed to turn it off! To answer you questions... 1.) Correct, HW stops coming out of...

Thank you for explaining it so clearly. So is the water that is held in the cylinder pumped around the radiators? If yes, what happens when I remove a radiator (and therefore lose some water?)

I'm not sure, but when I first moved into the house I posted on diynot for some advice and several people confirmed it was a system boiler.

I've attached a couple of images that show my boiler and cylinder. The boiler is an Ideal Classic. There is no tank in the loft (the loft has been converted)

Hi all, Apologies in advance if I get any terminology incorrect. I moved into a house about a year ago with a system boiler. I've always lived in houses with a regular/conventional boiler system so I'm still getting my head around how a system boiler works. I'm looking at doing some...

An update with some good news.... After increasing the cylinder temp to around 72c I had plenty of HW for my daughter's bath this afternoon. This was after taking a quick shower myself a couple of hours before. Brilliant, thanks guys I am pretty sure we have the solution here ☺️. Just a...

Hi everyone, First of all let me say thank you for all the replies. They have been extremely helpful in helping me understand my system and what might be going on. @JonathanM - I had not fully understood how the HW is heated via the cylinder on a thermal store. Your explanation was very...

Hi all, I moved into a new house earlier this year, so this is the first winter. The house is approx 25 years old and has the original (system) boiler with HW cylinder (serviced each year). When we first moved in we had plenty of HW. However, since winter has come along and we have had the...

Thank you, this is what I suspected

At the programmer. The HW LED on the programmer lights up when the CH automatically comes on via the set time or if I manually press the HEATING ADVANCE button.