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Yes, both the feed and return were tee'd to run to both radiators. The new ones work fine, this morning they're both hot. But air gaps mean the 2nd floor rads need bleeding but won't let anything through.

It's a weird system - a Gledhill boilermate. There is a little cistern in a storage cupboard on the floor above, I guess to keep the system topped up. I checked, and it's still full, I can't see any valves that are off or anything

I added a new raditaor to a garage conversion today, probably not the textbook way of doing it, bit I ran 10mm hep pipes to the next nearest rad in the house and used a T to split the feed and return. Anyway, rather than drain the system to fit it, I pulled apart the existing joints , (having...

The tile mats are on a mesh for tile adhesive to set into, whereas the types for laminate and carpet are on a more continuous foil mat

I'm hoping to fit electric underfloor heating under the carpet of the garage conversion I;m doing. The room is just shy of 6m x 2.6 I think floorspace. I was gong to get about 10m of underfloor heating, thinking I'd lay it covering 5m x 2m of the floor, not worrying about sides of the room...

That's a good point. I wonder if I should start fiddling with the main stopcock for the house!!? I shall investigate!

I recently fitted a new kitchen sink & taps. nothing else has changed in the house, but the flow rate in the whole house isn't what it was. It's not a dribble by any means, but the showers have lost their Oomph certainly. The stop tap is just under the sink, so the kitchen sink tap is the...

Hmmm... Looking more on the forum I've found someone trying to fit a similar (or same) model http://www.diynot.com/forums/electrics/changing-a-thermostat-to-digital-help-needed-on-wiring.374951/ Originally someone said it was an underfloor heating thermostat, though apparent;y without the...

I currently have an analogue room thermostat for my house. We've realised that the timer wheel on our heating system is broken (It turns through the hours, but never clicks the system on or off!) And I figured by far the cheaper option would be to fit a programmable room thermostat and leave the...

While I'm on here - What size screws would I use for the studwork? Shall I get a few hundred 4x75mm? Decking screws perhaps will suffice? Nail gun would be nice, but I can't stretch to one! Also, how shall I fix the studwork to the wall?? Just by attaching it to the floor and ceiling, or does...

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll go for 400mm centres, with 600mm noggins! That way it won't be too far between studs for strength and still slightly less cutting! A builder friend advised I could probably just use 3x2 not 4x2. Then cheaper 75mm Celotex. Def 12.5mm pasterboard. I was...

I'm about to line the inside of the back of my garage to create an office space. (it's double length, but single width, ideal really for converting half of, we're never ever going to put a car in!) Figured I'd use 2x4, will be the right depth for 100mm Celotex. One detail though that my...

Thanks Sam, that does look the same. I would assume the splitter in the loft must use the Diplex system two if it was two types of input but only one type of output. I'll wait for them to arrive and see!

Thanks for the reply - I ended up winning the ebay auction for the set of 4 dual sockets for 99p yesterday, so I guess I'll just try it out when they arrive! Hopefully it will do what I'm thinking!

I've got a regular TV aerial outside my house, but no DAB antenna, so I've just bought one. Inside the loft hatch I've found (I've just bought the house so its setup is new to me!) an 8-way booster/splitter that shows separate inputs for VHF and UHF, but 8 outputs to sockets, not specifying VHF...

My house has great water pressure, and a good boiler (apparently - it's called a 'Megaflow'). Running a hot tap anywhere in the house at a 'normal' medium flow rate you could be there all day and it wouldn't get hot - you need to turn it on to full power that splashes everywhere like mad...

I'm fitting a new toilet bowl to replace one that got too scaled up to flush properly. The new one is brand new, a spare that a family member had, but the main hole for the flushed water to end the bowl is too small for the outlet part of my cistern to fit into. Are these bits available from...

Thanks for the responses, the softener I've bought is a Waterside MC350 Hi-Flo. From the name it sounds like it's got a good flow rate- anyone know?

We have fantastic water pressure at the moment, from our mains water and our hot (megaflow boiler) I've just bought a second-hand water softener that I'm hoping to fit myself, and I'm wondering if it will affect our pressure by a noticable amount? Also, any tips for installing it? Or...

Cheers for the response - the item from ebay may be helpful to keep it free-flowing if I ever get it clean, but I need to figure out a way of cleaning the blocked waterways first. I've tried "100% Limescale Destroyer" and the like, from supermarkets, but they don't seem effective, that's why...