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Good advice though, individual thermostat valves on each rad would be cool but as we rent the property, we'd rather not fork out for plumbing work, as the landlord is ultimately responsible for its repair/maintenance. We might invest hundreds, maybe thousands in it, to then have our tenancy end...

Not sure but we just switched the boiler on with the pump off and the rads don't seem to be heating up :) . I assume because of the age of the installation that the HW is gravity fed so switching off the pump hopefully won't affect it. Did a bit of Google research and this solenoid thing seems...

Cheers for the reply, just out of interest, what would the solenoid switch control? Something to do with the cylinder? Thanks again, Neil.

Hey everyone, We've just moved into a rented property which has an absolutely ancient central heating/hot water system (I would say 1960s or 70s). No room thermostat or radiator thermostats etc. I've figured out the old analogue timer and set it up to turn the system on and off when we need...