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Don't forget to factor in a ventilation-obsessed wife who leaves all the upstairs windows open all day then forgets to close them when the heating starts up.

In other words, what options are there of traps that can be recessed in the floor and are serviceable from above? She's at an age where she's losing her long hair so the trap needs frequent cleaning - yuk! Obviously this depends on getting enough fall on the waste within the space between...

No. It would be leaking lots of water. Check the "air" that comes out of the bleed screw by holding a flame undeneath. If it burns, it's hydrogen, a by-product of oxidation inside the steel rads. That the hall rad is catching it all is an accident of the design. If it's hydrogen, add more...

What about that motorised valve (grey box on the right)? Turn on the boiler then turn the cylinder 'stat down, then up and listen for a zzzzz sound as the synchronous motor opens the valve to admit pumped water into the coil. If nothing happens the motor may have died, which is common enough...

A big blob of Araldite underneath where it can't be seen.

I would hang on a bit. Oil will come down further in prices as the USA and her pal Saudi Arabia drop the price so as to starve Isis of cash or put Putin out of business, depending on which conspiracy theory you prefer.

Seconded the poster who wrote that he avoids using gloves - I was once working under the Landy and wearing latex gloves. Frustrated by yet another rusted bolt I went and got the angle grinder and wriggled it up into the space between me and the floor so that I could grind downwards. What I...

Depending on how brave you're feeling, how about trying this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GXDKxX9C7E

It may not be air but hydrogen from oxidation inside the rads. Was inhibitor added when it was refilled?

That's a good suggestion, thanks.

I'm reading this with interest because yesterday I drained our system to sort out a radiator problem. After refilling I switched on the boiler (condensing type) and at first it refused to fire despite the pump running. After turning the pump on and off two or three times to the sound of a lot of...

Oh yes he really looks like a jogger, not at all like a beardy attention-seeking anarchist .

Are you sure the clicking isn't caused by little blobs of solder jumping up and down in the vertical pipe to the valve?

... I guess it must have been a Jihadi Long Legs. I've just got back from a trip to Africa and I can't stop gambling. I think I've caught tombola.

If you're using an Android, you have to tell it to learn from the words you've used in texts and other messages and add them to its dictionary. Google on how to do this.

It's not cushy laws in the UK, it's the support network that exists for people arriving with nothing to their name. A refugee, once he's on British soil, will disappear into a huge community of his own nationals willing to give him lodgings, food and even a job for pocket money. That's how they...

My neighbour, a retired plumber, taught me to make soldered joints and stuff and I've done two bathrooms and the downstairs bog. I really enjoy plumbing; luckily as an amateur I have the time to set it all up nice and tidy and even start again if I'm not happy with something. I have rebuilt my...

There's a strong social class slant to this... I wasn't surprised that working class Glasgow voted yes while middle class Edinburgh voted no, along with the moneyed farmers of Dumfries & Galloway. I blame that idiot Mel Gibson for stirring it all up with his historically inaccurate...

I started mountain biking in 1988 when I moved to beautiful Lancashire and got a bit fitter. But after 22 years of night riding, driving to places to ride, mud and filth, wear and tear on bikes and kit I moved over to road riding four years ago and got really fit, fitter than I've ever been in...

The simple answer is not to go on holiday with British scum.