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I have a sealed system Vaillant ThermoCompact and Ariston unvented indirect cylinder. I recently changed a downstairs radiator and completely drained the system. It is refilled and running again but there is very little heat downstairs, upstairs all rads are hot or warm. There was an initial...

You know, I think you're right. All this effort and pondering trying to use a gentle bend for more efficient flow when my gut feeling as a DIYer would be to go for elbows above floor and where it gets tight below to use compression's. But that seems to get frowned on by the professionals...

I always used to do it over my knee but then hurt myself going too hard at it. I'll cushion it with a folded towel or similar. Thanks a lot gas112. Q? >> copper pipe section is thinner these days though isn't it?! All the best

Thanks. That is exactly the situation I have in some cases where I have cut off the little foliage there is, so something needs to penetrate the wood. Q1 Do I cut a little to expose sappy wood? Q2 Where can I get sbk and is that the brand name it would be known by? Q3 Are we talking many...

Thanks, that's great. I have a loose pebbles on top of weed control fabric landscaped area. These rogue saplings have likely come from nearby trees and have found their way between overlapped fabric joints or even come up or down through it! They can start growing just in the pebbles themselves...

Thanks I do appreciate your input and view on this. However, I feel I am going round in circles. I started asking how to run the 15mm in a neater way, now that the rad is positioned closer to the wall, advice was yes, to go that route. My question was ..... and now and ..... Now the...

darkan9el, thanks ... Q> How do I 'even out the texture'? Or is that just a knack? I agree, I can see the roller behaving differently on those surfaces, and no matter how many coast I put on, it will always seem to show through. Q> How do I remove or minimise that? After doing a local repair/...

St0rmer66 Q> So what was the issue with the bending shown in photos? Is it down to the thinner copper tube, or me, or both? I didn't get this problem some few years ago with what then seemed to be thicker 15mm tube. Thanks

I was trying to make it more robust by having 15mm instead of 8mm above floor, the only hiccup was this dog-leg tail bend in 15mm. Sounds like you think it is better to get back to 8mm for the whole run but routed snugger and less exposed. >> Is that instead of mixing 15mm above floor and 8mm...

Thanks, Q1> What would a trade name be for any of the glyphosate sprays, will I get it at Homebase or any garden centre? They are about 2ft tall in some cases and as thick as my finger. Q2> You mention 'plants', does that also kill the mini-trunks of these saplings? Q3> I will obviously still...

Joe-90, thanks - me again. .... Exactly, I realise that now, too thick paint. Q1> Is the Crown normal matt, or vinyl matt? For ceilings I would assume non-vinyl? Q2> Should I, as mentioned earlier, give the whole ceiling a fine sand over to reduce the roller stipple? It seems to be that which...

JohnD & gerald - Thanks for the tip, and sorry I mentioned PVA, it was very minor in this case, not the whole ceiling! I put some on in a small area of deep plaster patching, about 3" square in total which is now buried under about three layers of matt white. From scratch the whole bare ceiling...

Thanks. A hallway is a showpiece area, I wouldn't be bothering in the same way if this was with a spare bedroom... That seems to be a big part of this, maybe in going for a 'smooth' finish I have missed the fact that a short haired roller is quite rigid and not flexible, it misses the low...

AlanE. Thanks but that in 8mm was exactly what I had and was trying to get away from because it got kicked and knocked and was forever weeping requiring tightening and tweaking. I put ina replacement rad with these new 15mm tails on the wrong side of the joist because it was more difficult to...

My hallway ceiling was washed, filled, sanded and sealed with a mist coat and in places of high repair a 50/50 pva to seal it, prior to 3 coats of Wickes white matt - I'm not sure if it was standard matt or vinyl matt? Despite all this solid white paint put on with a short hair roller for...

Thanks for the advice. I have tried bending a sample of the proposed dog-leg 'S' bend radiator tail using a pipe spring and bending it over a 4" dia round wooden post. This is what happened! ............. the one on the right is particularly bad. I have bent things like this previously and...

Elbow as circled below, or a gentle bend instead?

I will need to do a trial run on something to get the feel for Sikkens and water based generally. Q >> Joe, sounds like you favour brush vs. roller? Q >> Do I have to accept a slightly more uneven surface with some brush lines using water based? I have been used to a spray-like finish with old...

Thanks kittedup and squeaky. The rad is already off the wall for decorating so I just have 2 tails out from the floor. I had intended using the the drain off valve which is on the tail by the front door, but without the rad it would need blanking off on the rad side otherwise it will squirt...

I have a lot of small saplings that find their way into my garden between slabs block paving and burrowing through weed fabric in loose stone areas. They seem to come from nowhere and then take hold, windblown from lots of nearby trees? If I am quick while they are small they can be pulled out...