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No, the 8mm to 15mm copper sleeve (I'm calling it a reducer, don't know the correct term) was leaking where it fitted over the 8mm pipe.

All sorted. Used the thing in the link I posted. The reducer that was on there just slipped straight off so no wonder it was leaking. All cleaned up, fitted and refilled and all dry. Thankfully. Cheers for the help.

Thanks again everyone. Yes, I will need to remove what's there and then redo it. Would like to learn so will give it a shot. Will update when I've hopefully fixed it.

I've just measured it and it's 8mm but ta for the heads up.

One of these? www.cityplumbing.co.uk/Internal-Reducer-Compression-15x8mm-DZR/p/953069

Just been looking online and yes looks like I need to replace that. Gonna give it a shot this week. Thanks for the help.

Money is a factor hence me doing it.

Thanks Mick. I'm assuming I'll need to drain it all anyway won't I as it is a pressurised system. *Edit* ignore me. You said in either case :-)

Would this work? I have one of these already and it can be used as a torch.

Thanks. The leak is coming from the joint rather than the valve. If I can get hold of the soldering stuff I assume it is pretty straight forward?

Will try and get the photo up another way. Try this https://goo.gl/photos/znyuMfKcj24ah95TA

Will try and get the photo up another way. Please hold :-)

Bugger. Would soldering do the trick though, with the correct soldering torch?

Noticed one of my radiators is leaking at the joint between the microbore and what looks like a sleeve going into the bottom of the TRV. I have a photo of this but the uploader is erroring. Think the sleeve might be increasing the pipe size to fit the valve. If I drain the system can I Solder...

Ok hopefully these pics will help explain So you can see the basement and door and how the ground starts going up to the side. Inside you can see the floor covering, the structural support walls which would need to come down and also how the builders sloped the basement floor up towards the...

It's an odd setup actually. The house is a bungalow but is like a standard 2 floor detached house, with 2 sides buried up the first floor. So the basement is already used for garden storage and has a full door. One wall joins onto the garage which could also be used. I would imagine we wouldn't...

Having looked at converting my loft I am now investigating the otpioms for converting my basement. Floor to ceiling height is approx 2.7m but as the floor is currently just a concrete block of some sort I don't know what the options are for flooring and how they would affect the effective...

Think it's about 2.6m or so. Haven't measured it but I'm just under 6 foot and I can't touch the ridge when stretching.

Yeah, my parents next door neighbour is an SE and has been for a long time so would speak with him. As I say, at the moment it is just a pipe dream but I like to know my options for if/when we have enough free cash to consider this.

Bugger. Not what I was hoping to hear. But looking at it yes, I can see it would need strengthening. Wouldn't be planning on a former, it really is a very big space as it is so don't think there's a need. Cheers.