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Yes - he has already been out to rectify a couple of problems. First time the radiators were left filled and leaking - the second time the radiators were supposed to have drained down but the header tank was full of water so they flooded one room - luckily it was tiled flooring. When he was...

Many thanks for that. I had been looking at the OFTEC website and could not find any section which covered rads and pipework as you say. The concern seems to focus on boiler and electrics and safety. I also looked at the local building regs. county council website and again it is more to...

Thank you very much for that - saves embarrassment on my part with HETAS tomorrow morning ! Will contact OFTEC and hope the letterhead of this company is accurate. Have just checked online - they are registered.

It took a while for the horse comment - but eventually . . . . :) The original pipework was about 40 plus years old- old iron pipework some of which was about 4", most was 3/4" pipe and an old 140,000 btu Potterton oil fired boiler with separate water pump. I imagine it resembled a boiler...

Many thanks - I do not have a good feeling about this ! I think your suggestion of an inspection at this stage - before everything is buried - makes a great deal of sense. I did query the strangled pipe in one of the photos and was told that the man who did that radiator had an old spring pipe...

The bore was not specified in the quote. It is a large house and the radiators are Quinn double convectors and most are fairly large rads for large rooms. I have a horrible feeling that one of the 3 quotes they received was for 15mm/22mm. Is 10mm suitable for this application. ? I have...

second set of photos of plumbing