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I don't know what the pressure was on .. the needle was as far as it could possibly go on the pressure dial, past the red. Thanks for all the advice on here, very helpful :)

Is the expansion relief pipe the one that goes outside and leaks when the pressure is too high? As there was water coming out from that

Thanks for all the replies :) I'm not trying to scape goat the engineers ... I don't have a clue about central heating and what pressure they should be running and , or what pressure they can hold. I don't have a problem paying for a new radiator if it was faulty/not properly welded etc...

Will make sure we don't get charged for changing that radiator as it was their fault. They think they others should still be changed, which might be worthwhile anyway as they are old now, and don't look too great. Hope this doesn't drag on for much longer though, and isn't too expensive .

Yup, its a Vaillant boiler, EcoTec 624 to be exact

It was actually someone else that did the fitting but from the same company - will make sure we get someone else to repair the problems. Hope this gets resolved soon, more problems than I was anticipating ! No other radiators in the house did that, maybe it was because that one hasn't...

Yes, he was corgi registered ... one of the guys from http://www.my-plumber.co.uk/

Right, turns out the guy that came earlier on today thought that the system was losing pressure so he turned one of the valves underneath the boiler to increase the pressure in the system. Well,he didn't turn the valve back and left it like that, hence the water dripping from a pipe outside ...

EcoTec 624. Plumber just turned up and drained the system, radiator back to normal size now :D Was getting worried the thing was going to blow :oops:

Sorry, the pressure was not 3 bar ... the needle was in the grey bit on the boiler, don't know where I got 3 bar from in my head ! This is the latest picture of the radiator, come off the wall now on one side, plumber will be here in a sec luckily !

The boiler is turned off and has been for the last couple of days. In the last 20 minutes or so its actually got big enough to pull itself off the wall and push the chest of drawers in front of it forward slightly The pressure reading on boiler was ar 3 Bar last time it was on, but now is...

Right - we got a new boiler installed last week (bloody expensive !!) , it worked perfectly fine for a couple of days, till we started getting loud banging noises from one of the radiators every few hours. According to the guys who fitted the boiler, our old radiators can't handle the...