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kitchen is currently not heated, living room heater by wood stove. boiler is potterton profile 50e - 11KW

Good thinking but I only balanced the radiators a couple of months ago, iirc the flow was about 71c

the one in the hall just has a standard lockshield, same as the bathroom, the 2 in the bedrooms have TRVs

room stat is in the hallway next to the bathroom door. Boiler is also set to max

So today i thought i'd do an experiment and crank my heating up as high as it will go and see how hot my house actually gets (thermostat set to 30c) I've noticed before that the radiators get hot fast and kick out heat, but it seems to take an age to heat the room up. When i replaced the...

Good point, to be honest I had never considered it in that way. The problem I can forsee in getting it stood up is that the top of the cylinder could easily be higher than the cold tank which feeds it, or not far off. Im tempted to get rid of it and have a little 10l mains fed electric...

Intergas aka Atmos ... A quick google reveals why they are superior, Worcester aren't what they used to be and spares price for vailant will make you cry

Finally got around to looking at this again today after a year of finding other things to occupy my weekends. I took the advice and capped off the domed end, has had no noticeable effect, so now: cold water goes in the bottom where it should and hot comes out the top where the overflow pipe...

A lot of induction hobs have limiters, especially the budget ones. This means that if you add up the rings power individually you might get something daft like 8kw but it has a maximum at any one time of 5kw so it will not allow all the rings on full power at once

nope, these will have to be on a metered supply. And the councils don't like repairing lights that are on 24/7 (known in the trade as dayburners) because it costs them, and they aren't charged for the extra electricity anyway

yes most of the street lights in the UK are un-metered. The new LED lights often have built in technology to the LED drivers which determine the date and time of day based on when the photocell switches on / off and can dim at the correct time accordingly. search "Philips Dynadimmer" or...

We need a bit more info Combi boiler or tanked system? Hot water lacking from taps or shower or both? Type of shower?

what does a sad elephant sound like? may you can make a video / sound clip and post it on youtube so we can hear for ourselves

the best thing to do is to fit 6mm2 cable from the outlet to your cooker, that way the cable is protected correctly by the MCB, you could use 4mm2 on a 32a but for the couple of quid difference you'll be better off with 6mm. worst case scenario there is you turn everything on at once and it...

first thing i would check is the linkage bushes

nice work :D I especially like the random pattern path!

Yes it still comes by cheque in the post, to the address on the v5. Your only option is redirection

i left the the speed of the pump at number 2. the difference at the boiler is 15 degrees. The flow is 74 but at the radiators is 71 and return at radiators is 60 and boiler return is 59, the pipes are currently uninsulated so this is sort of understandable. set to 15 i can hear the room...

I thought the correct phrase was "if a man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him ... Is he still wrong"

Think I've finally managed to solve it now and have each radiator with a 10-12 degree difference :) Also when I set the thermostat to 15 in the mornings the boiler fires for a while then switches off for some time before re-firing, it's only when I turn the temperature upto 20 is it...