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Im not sure where you got the "cant bleed a radiator" bit?

I didnt go into the loft before any problems.. no. Regarding the water in the rads.. i admit i didnt make this clear in my original post. Ok so.. the one downstairs that i drained from.. that does nothing when i "bleeed" The others downstairs have a tiny ... TINY dribble.. not a shoot as youd...

How do you mean? Sorry. Edit: i bled the rads.. but have since closed them up there are 2 fitttings of sometype either side of the pump.. are theese vents? Should i try to open theese? Theres also what looks like a "cap" with a spindle ending some upwards pipe, comming off of the 3 port valve...

Im worried that running the heating - or boiler- with this problem persisting may damage it? If the boiler isnt getting water. Maybe the boiler IS getting water? I dno. Like i say, the boiler will turn on.. for like 3 mins and then off. Im presuming... Because it doesn't have any water? Would...

Yes, and yes it is full.

The cold water comming into the house. Then ran the taps and drained the CH from a rad with a hose pipe.

Ok so i changed a faulty 3 port valve. After turning the water back on.. the heating nor hot water works. The boiler may fire up for a minute or so then turn off... Im assuming its a saftey cut off, as maybe a blockage... No water going i to the boiler. Hotwater taps run... But run cold of...

Surley the pilot light will remain? If so, i assume thats okay.. afterall.. none of the work is in/at the boiler.

Sorry to start this thread back up. But i too need to change my 3 port valve. When hot water is on.. the rads gets hot too! Did/do you need to turn the GAS off? Obviously il turn the electric off at the fuse board for the wiring in the new motor.. but my reserch regarding gas seems to be...

Thanks plugwash. So taking a picture and recreating it on the new fitting WAS. A good idear. And yeah, it did occur to me to mark that black wire going to the neutral.. which i did also. Who knew, theres more then one way to skin a cat... Or wire a cat.. or something.

So.. today i changed a couple of lights in my kitchen. The first light i changed was simple. Live to live neutral to neutral ect. So when putting in my new light fixture, i just did the same, obviously. However.. when i came to the 2nd light there was more going on. Have a look at this photo...

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Hi. I want to replace a floresent tube light for LED strip. The type youd get from bnq ect. Please see attached photo of current set up. The tube light has a switch on its own body. And wired into what you can see in the background. How should i go about getting LEDs into this set up. Im...

Update: fixed done and dusted. Thanks for the assist all involved.

Decided to use compresion fittings with copper pipes. I imagine theres a large number of DIYers who go straight for poly, not realising they can just use compresion, with olives and ptfe, just as easyer. Will be off to the local diy shop in the morning. Decided to replace the pipe from the...

Upon closer inspection i belive it to actually be the expansion overflow from the top of the hot water tank to the header tank. I wouldn't of thought this pipe is really pressured much. Id imagine a trickle. Interesting. Maybe there is a problem in the system? I spose my new question would be...

Hi there all and thanks in advance. I have pinhole leaks in a copper pipe in the loft. The pipe that feeds to header tank (old school, huh?) Am i able to chop out the damaged (and nearby) area. And replace with poly pipe. So it will be copper to poly join poly pipe for 1foot to poly join...

So.. my kitchen is quite old as I understand it. It has a non vented recirculating cooker hood. We do get condensation from cooking things such as pasta, ect. From boiled water My question is.. can i install a vent to outside. Exactly like how i did with my tumble dryer. Duckting along the...

Thanks for the replys..

Location is south Birmingham. 10 mins north of j3 m42