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We are renovating an upstairs room in our 1903 home and found a hidden fireplace under the lino. It is made of ceramic tiles on top of a clay like material. Ignore the hardboard fragment on top - that's going too ;-) My main question is there anything for me to look out for other than remove...

Thanks for the replies all - new valves and radiator replaced. Took me a while but then again...i have never done this before! I certainly didn’t realise that you needed to use THAT much PTFE. Took two goes to learn that one...

I think i can get the system pressure down to a minimum without causing too much of a problem. Having said all of that I just went into my daughter’s bedroom and noticed the same issues with the valve. “So THAT’s where the water is coming from” she said... Maybe two valves replacing. These...

I might just go for a new rad completely. Free TRV valves with a kudox radiator at Screwfix. The radiator i might replace has a drain valve on it also and i have a combi boiler. Therefore it’s fairly straight forward to replace without draining the whole system, right?

Hi there, I live in a mid-80’s house full of lovely imperial radiators. I noticed wet carpet in one of the rooms and found there to be a leaky radiator valve. Long story short I managed to isolate both the shut off valve and the lock shield. However, when shutting off the lock shield there was a...