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John thanks for you quick response. I take it it's just a case of unscrewing the existing valve and replacing it with the Pegler one then? Is this a mains water off job? I've noticed water trickling down the roof of the rear extension into the gutter, it's been dripping constantly for ages, so...

Hi all, I'm not any further with this, it's a weekend thing! However, I managed to get back in the loft this lunchtime and I've taken a picture of the inside of the F&E tank which is attached. This is the COLD level of the tank which as you can see is basically at the level of the top drain...

Morning, I thought I would report back this morning after a weekend of frustration, tell you what I’ve done and what the current result is. Using the drain point downstairs I let the F&E flow through the upstairs rads to give them a clear out and left it running for about half an hour. I also...

John I know 100% that the pump is fitted the right way round, arrow is the same way round as the one it replaced. I didn't close or touch the pump valves, I drained down when I replaced the pump. When I did work last year I removed all rads and flushed out in the garden. The water draining from...

Hi John, Not been able to get online until now. The water squirts out yes, there's no air in any of the rads, as soon as I open the bleed valve there is water there. I've not had chance to do anything much tonight, but I did turn the heating back on and the rads that were getting hot this...

John, to answer your questions: I turned all the rads off that got hot, still no heat in the drop fed rads - yet to try with 1 rad at a time. Yes I've got TRV's on all the rads - all fitted new 12 months ago, all checked so I know the pin isn't stuck. I wouldn't say 'forcefully' but there's...

Morning all, I was here this time last year with central heating problems, which you guys did a great job helping me out. Unfortunately, I have similar problems again after a pump change and wanted to see if this is something simple I can tackle myself again. This is what I know about my...

Hi all, I've come back here for some advice after you guys helped me out no end last time. We have an open vented system with an old Potterton Flamingo boiler and a Wilo Gold RS50 pump. Had terrible issues after draining the system down previously but everything has been working great...

Hi all, So I decided to have one more go at this damn thing and I thought I'd managed to fix it but it's still not working as it should. I've bled again, tied up ballcock and drained the dropfeed rads. Filled via the tank and bled each rad in turn starting downstairs and working my way...

So pretty much the same principle as isolating a radiator then? Drain down might be the best option as the pump is under the floorboards so any leaking is going right through the ceiling!! Once I've got the pump off, then what? What should I look for in terms of worn parts, signs it...

The pump has isolating valves either side, they are the ones that look like old style taps with the circular turn knob - no idea if they will actually close properly to stop leaking when I get the pump off.

Morning, So last night I thought I’d give it another go so before I touched anything I just fired up the boiler to see what happened. On the lowest temperature setting, the boiler ran for maybe 5 mins and then shut down. I checked the pipework at the top of the boiler which was hot, the...

Update 2...... Turned on again this morning and the boiler fired up for about 3 minutes and some heat in upstairs rads but then boiler shuts off and just leaves the pump running. Flow to pump is hot, pump us hot and pipe leaving the pump is hot. Put screwdriver to pump and I can hear...

Here's the latest......... So I drained down all of upstairs and for time saving purposes left the drop fed rads alone downstairs apart from the one a drained from. Did this with the ballcock tied up and went back up and confirmed the tank had drained. I then backfilled and bled each...

I keep checking the pump for air each time I've turned the system on but it's definitely got water coming out. I haven't checked the spindle, as soon as I saw water from the central screw I closed it - didn't realise I could get away with removing it to have a look. If I decide to a drain...

There's no flow through any of the other radiators. Until I turned them all off barring the one closest to the pump, there was no flow through that one either. With all the rads open and the system on, the flow reached the closest rad to the pump as far as the inlet valve but went no...

So at the moment I've got the all othe rads ff barring one, which I did manage to get a bit of air out earlier so the air must have been pushed through a bit further than it had done before. I take it you don't mean turning off all the rads? Switching the pump on and off, would that just...

Hi, Just wanted to provide a quick update and also add some additional info to the OP. When I drained the system I couldn’t get in the loft to tie up the ball cock and (ridicule expected) didn’t realise for about 2 hours that I had to turn off the mains supply to stop the tank from...

I just thought I was trying to rule out other things, namely and airlock, before I went ahead with trying to clear the blockage. To be fair, going through the process of accessing the tank and finding the pump hasn't done me any harm as I now know they are accessible when I need to get them...

Quick update..... I've got to the pump and turned the screw on the front and water came straight out and no air. Turned on boiler why I still had access to the pump and flow got really hot but the outlet from the pump didn't get hot. So I gave it a gentle tap with a hammer and the...