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    Confused about CH system.. seems to be linked to hot water?

    Thanks for the replies. Maybe it is a primatic cylinder then.. although i cant find any other markings other than a sticker with the size, "medium duty" and the fact the word "standard" had been crossed out and "auto" written on Ill probably just bite the bullet and get the lot ripped and...
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    Confused about CH system.. seems to be linked to hot water?

    The boiler is a Halstead Buckingham3 - which is only for a indirect cylinder. When had a closer look at the FE tank, the ballcock had already been tied up - the tank was dry and looks like has been for a while (potentially over a year) judging by the fluff and stuff in the bottom. Ive...
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    Confused about CH system.. seems to be linked to hot water?

    I "Thought" i had a standard open vented system. with gravity fed DHW and pumped CH. Ive got a FE tank in the loft along with hot and cold tanks. There are four pipes coming from the boiler. I decided to drain the system to treat with X400 as some of the rads are quite sludgy. I drained...
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    Stopping a old Gravity CH boiler from dry-cycling.

    Hi. First post from a longtime lurker :) Currently the house has a basic gravity fed DHW system with a old (15yr+) Halstead Buckingham 3 conventional boiler. The tank has no tank-stat and there are no valves. When i first moved in, one of the first things i did was to replace the 24h...
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