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wow - you can do that ???? thats brilliant ! I think with this project its all a matter of timing ... I dont want the heating off as long as it would take me to do a proper job with the replacement piping, but Id need the radiators and piping out long enough to do a sensible (none rushed)...

thanks for that... If I wanted to remove the piping altogether temproarily while I sort out the decorating and replacement piping, could I just chop the pipes in the ceiling feeding these radiators and use push fit end-stops to block them? Im thinkking of doing this quite so I dont have...

... but how do I unfasten the existing valvue in the first place? I now definately need these pipes and radiators out of the way ... if I used some of them push fit end caps, could I drain the system, cut the pipes in the ceiling for these rads, block them with end caps and re-fill the...

Hello all... Im decorating the front room (living room) and because the house was fitted with central heating some time after it was built, whoever installed it ended up running the 2 front room radiator sets of pipes down the internal walls.... they are covered with some nasty looking...

wouldnt I need to drain the whole system to change the valvue ?why should I need to change it ?

thanks ... whats the valvues? or where are they I mean. is there any reason/way to convert this section of the system to 'standard' type? or is that too much fuss for something reletively simple? so I can simple switch off both of those pipes (via the knob and screw under cap - unscrew...

My house is with a microbore system, my bathrooms standard radiator has a suspicious rusty patch along the beading at the bottom and while its not leaking yet Im expecting to discover a swimming pool of water has developed under it at any time ! we dont 'really' use or need the full heat of...

thanks for all those suggestions Slippyr4 .... very helpful. to answer what I can .... my own 'master' socket ... its a square faced flush-to-the-wall 'standard' type phone socket - with a hole in the front to plug a phone in.... it says GPO on it but I cannot get to it to open up and see...

that does make sense come to think of it .. there are only definately 2 wires going to everything else in the house - and all that 'was' modern telephone equipment and Ive never had problems with that stuff... however - this old phone did not ring whole the others did. the only thing that...

hmmm.... I hoped to gain some obvious know-how from looking at my mums wiring (the wiring that seems to work fine for this old phone), but if anything now Im more confused! Basically she has 2 wires also... a blue with white stripes on 2 and a white with blue stripes on 5... that BT master...

Yeah I know bout that thanks... which is why i disconnected the entire rest of my telephones and just rant he old phone off the main socket... thanks anyway,

hmmm very interesting ... ive been reading this thread with the aim of sorting out my own problem. Basically I have currently got my master BT socket downstairs (behind a radiator ?) this has a wire coming out of it - around the room and into a plasterboard wall which originally had the 1...

ok after leaving the system on for a few hours I now seem to be getting hot water.... not very hot .,. but hot enough from the taps. However - Ive noticed that the radiators seems to be scalding hot .... even though some are either switched off on their own knobs? or turned down quite low ...

tanks seem find... big massive cold water one in loft is full and fills automatically when water is used and stoped as it should with ball cock thing... the little grotty CH tank is full too... :( Plmbing p*sses me off - probably because I know nothing about it.

valve E is open most of the time .... is this the output of pipe C ? if E is fully open I can release the thing ontop of A and a bit of air will come out followed by NOTHING.... infact I can take the screw off altogether .... if I then tighten E to close it completely water will pour out of...

The whole system seems to be old ... the house is about 25 years old of more, so we are not talking anything fancy. I have a Baxi Solo 2 40RS? which has a pump above it, the boiler and pump are switched on and off by the timer unit, the boiler only seems to have one hot water out (ie - it...

All of a suden I seem to have lost hot water from my hot water taps - water just runs cold no matter how long i leave the tap on for. the radiators in the house all work great - no probs. in my hot water cylinder - am I right in assuming that the main bottom thick pipe is cold water in and...