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Hi Slugbaby, many thanks for the reply, your expertise is much appreciated. This is driving me mad. In response.... I'll give this a try this evening and see how it goes. I always make sure I do, normally it heat the system for a while, turn it off wait for the pump to...

Hi folks, I'm really confused by the behaviour of three of my radiators. I’ve very much appreciate your thoughts on this one. Some facts first: - The house I live in is three floored. The system is open vented and the boiler and pump are on the middle floor. The system (as it was...

Hi, we moved into a new place last year and I'm looking to remove the old stair carpet and sand down and stain/varnish the stairs, I'm trying to get a similar look to the white painted and wood stairs I've seen around, such as here :- http://www.londonstair.com/gallery.asp# Two questions...

Gents, just thought I would update you. Remeber this thread? After much messing around, getting covered in boss and random pieces of hemp everywhere, I finally have a none leaking radiator Can't thank you enough for your advice and your assistance. It has been fantastic. I'll stick with the...

Gents, just thought I would update you. After much messing around, getting covered in boss and random pieces of hemp everywhere, I finally have a none leaking radiator ;-) Can't thank you enough for your advice and your assistance. It has been fantastic. I'll stick with the "old ways" in future...

Sir, you are a star :wink: I looked at the hemp yesterday, but time was against me and I fancied having some more info before I tried. Googling for Hemp returned some interesting results :lol: A bit of goo looked like a good option for a fast fix before I went out. Should have worked...

Cheers ChrisR, I hope not to go down the araldite route! Funny part is, I've emailed Jaga tech support again today and I quote :- Use normal PTFE, pile enough on and it won't leak! :shock: Perhaps they mean I should mumify the rad :lol: Clearly they make rads...

Gents, due to time restrictions I tried the LSX system yesterday evening, all went well until it started leaking ;-( Odd really, the radiator filled the whole thing was fine. 10min later it's dripping from both sides! So this evening it's time for hemp and boss white. Can I ask a...

ChrisR, don't get me started on this one :lol: As you can see from the instructions I posted with the link Jaga suggest you bring the pipes out at the same height on the wall, which I did, plastered and tiled them in. A fantastic job even if I say so myself. Then I unpacked the heating element...

morning ollski, I've not ignored this one, picked up the LSX from my local hardware shop this AM, I plan to have every possible plan I can. Regards ChrisC.

Hi gents got some cross eyed looks at the local hardware shed, found a plumbers merchant open on Sunday, has the boss white, the hemp and the gas PTFE. Excellent job gents, :) I'll post if it works.

Paul, many thanks, an original idea this one. Only one question, where the hell do you buy your hemp from? Phoned around this morning and no one in our local area seems to have it. Your advice is very much appreciated. Regards ChrisC.

Hi ollski, OK I missed that, however in mitigation it was 12.41 am and I'd been lifting 40KG of rad on and off the wall since 10am ;-( It's a real pain to fit this one. Many thanks for the info, my apologies for missing the point, your advice is much appreciated. I'll go and pick...

Hi ollski, thanks for the reply, as I said in my post. I put buckets of PTFE on them (at least 10 winds at one point). They still leak, big time, especially the T-Piece. I put them in as tightly as was comfortable and still they leak. Regards CC.

Hello, I'm having some real issues with the radiator pictured below. The manufacturer (Jaga) supplied the valves and a T-Piece for the thing. They suggest that you just PTFE them and screw them in and it will be all happy. It's not, they leak and quite a bit. The T-piece is no where...

Can I ask what on earth (no pun intended) does this answer have to do with my question? Did you even read my question? Simple as this this. I need to get out of a scrape. Maybe it's no hasstle to you that I'll spend a fortune on plastering my walls to rip them all up again to lay one cable...

Sadly not. :( the sparky is providing the transformer and lights. The plasterer was due to come after the electrician, however he has now had do it earlier. So I’m stuck with having to add the mains and get the electrician to connect up to that.

Yep, my sparky is on holiday in Spain at the moment :( he will be inspecting and signing it off. However the room will be plastered before he gets back, which was not in the plan. Hence the question here, I don't plan to plaster and then rip it all up again. So any more helpful advice would be...

Hi, I'm about to add some mains to power (from a spur off the lighting circuit) for an above mirror light (Low voltage). I was going to drop the transformer into the ceiling void, however I now I now find the mirror will arrive some weeks after I need to plaster and tile. I’m thinking now of...