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Yep - all done. Planning to leave the cleaner in the system for a good few weeks (the bottle said it can stay in the system for up to 4 weeks) to make sure it gets a good clean. Got a bottle of inhibitor on standby too for when the cleaner comes out. Hopefully that should do the trick...

Just to let you know that the hose/garden tap solution did the trick. The heating is back on and the Mrs is happy. :D Thanks to everyone for their help and advice.

That isn't a problem. The new towel rad has just what I need. Planning to give it a go this afternoon. Fingers crossed that I get some heating.

OK, thanks for that Dextrous. Will attempt that one tomorrow and hopefully I can get some heat. Cheers for all the help everyone.

Definately not one of those.

As far as I can see there aren't any valves. Seems to be one continuous maze of pipes. With a pump in the middle.

Right then, I have been to bleed the pump. Nothing. Undid the silver screw and nothing came out. No water or air. The pump is upstairs and since the problem seems to be that there isn't any water in the upstairs circuit I guess that isn't too surprising. So, could be an airlock in the...

Yeah, I had a cleaner in the f/e tank but since the thing wasn't filling I ended up draining it out to check that the tank would empty via the drain valve. Now go inhibitor in the f/e tank and it looks like that will go the same way as it isn't filling the system. Best £30 I ever spent...

Nice one. Thanks for those suggestions. Will look into them. Sorry if my post is lacking info... I'm not sure what extra info would be useful (I can tell you lots about IT but not so much on plumbing :lol: ).

I'm having problems with my central heating and I hope someone can help... I drained the system a few weeks ago to add a new radiator and move a couple around. All went pretty well. I went for the big switch on yesterday but it hasn't really worked out as I had hoped. The f/e tank in the...