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    Loud Banging in Central Heating Pipes

    Hi Martwall, I have bleed all radiators, all appear fine and are hating up ok...
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    Loud Banging in Central Heating Pipes

    Hi, My gas central heating has been working fine until a few days ago. When the boiler is turned on there is very load banging coming from some pipes upstairs and downstairs and in some radiators. It does not happen every time heating is on. When banging does happen it stops after about 5...
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    Cold Radiators

    Balancing is carried out by adjustment the lockshield valve on each radiator. The Rads closest to boiler should be more closed then those at end of the line to build up pressure. You should search this site for Balancing as I am not a plumber or an expert on this...
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    Rad Balancing / Lockshield Valves

    Hi, I previously had 2 cold rads and after some DIY balancing one is now working fine but the remaing one is still cold. I have had the cold one on, on it's own and it heats up fine so it is not a bleeding problem. My question is by further balancing experimentaion should the cold one pick...
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    Cold Radiators

    I did some balancing on the rads last night and one of them came back good and hot but the other remains cold. The inflow pipe feels hot on it though, so does this sound like a little bit more "tweaking" / balancing will bring this on line? The two troblesome rads are back to back on a...
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    Worn tread on Rad bleed valve

    Hi, The tread has worn on a bleeding valve and the valve is at the back / wall side. Any ideas on how to get at this or does the rad need to be removed from wall to get access?
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    Cold Radiators

    Hi, I have two cold radiators in my house downstairs despite bleeding them. When I turn of all rads in the house except these two they heat up perfectly. I then have turned all the other rads in the house one by one, slowly allowing each one to heat up. By the end of this all rads are on and...
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