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I want a black radiator (and don't want to pay crazy money). I appreciate the extension might look a little odd, but it will mostly be hidden by curtains so I'm not too worried. I don't want to replace the existing valves. Are you saying that the existing connection in to the existing rad...

Hi all, I am looking for a bit of advice please. I recently moved into a late 90s built house and want to replace a radiator. The existing radiator was a bit of an odd length so the one I have purchased to replace it is approx 180mm shorter, so I am looking at needing 90mm extension each...

Hi all, I'm going to be replacing a couple of sockets in a bedroom soon and want some with built in USB ports. The current one I have is a cheap BG branded one and gives off an annoying whine/hum which I gather is quite common in cheap ones. You only notice it when a couple of feet away, but...

Hi all, I would like to lay some softer and warmer flooring on top of an existing ceramic tiled floor in our conservatory. Not sure exactly what we want to use yet, but something like the faux wood Karndean planks we had in our previous house. We don't use the conservatory much so it will...

Thanks all, very helpful.

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...