radiator

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum! I recently purchased a three-year-old house which, as I understand it, is still under the 10-year warranty with Barratt Homes (the builder). I’ve recently discovered a leak on my dining room radiator. It’s only a small dribble leak, but it’s enough to affect...

Hi all After some advice please, I have an 4 year old Veissman boiler this morning the radiators started to heat up then all of them in the house went cold way before reaching the nest set temperature and then even when pressing manual heat on the nest link nothing would get the radiators to...

Hi, I checked through the forums and found some useful bits but nothing quite answering what it is I'd appreciate some help with. Forgive any errors, I'm not at all clued up with plumbing related things. We (gratefully) inherited a full Tado system installed by the previous homeowner...

Hello! Wondering if someone can help, Google doesn’t seem to understand my question… I have 2 upstairs radiators (combi boiler) on smart TRV’s which don’t get hot when valves are open. The TRV’s work fine, and I can hear them call for the boiler correctly but the rad’s stay cold. HOWEVER…...

I need to paint radiators, skirting, 6 doors/frames, bannisters, hallway cupboards and whatever else I am forgetting. I don't want to do this again for a very long time, so I'd imagine that a water-based finish is a must to avoid yellowing, which it all currently is to varying degrees. Worse in...

Good morning, all, I recently removed and reattached a radiator when decorating our bedroom. I subsequently noticed that the telescopic valve was slightly leaking when this radiator, or any radiator in the house, was on. We have a combi system, so I presume that some part of the telescopic...

Hello, I'm replacing the copper microbore pipe currently running through the concrete slab with 15mm copper pipe behind the skirting board. As per the picture bellow, I'm removing about 12cm of plasterboard and planning fix the pipes directly to the brick (cavity wall) with plastic talon clips...

I have two radiators that I need to install in slightly different locations to the originals. The cheapest quote I have had is £1,150 with me supplying the rads myself, which is unaffordable so I want to explore doing the job myself. The flow and return are in concrete screed. I have excavated...

Hi guys new here. Got a job that’s got fairly new radiators which were fitted 4/5 years ago by previous builders. One of the rads have pinholed it’s a k21 600h by 800w. Anyways the customer wants to match what’s already in the house as the pinholed radiator is right next to another one and...

Hi, have a new house and all my radiators have Myson trvs on them and work fine except for one. I purchased a Myson trv for it thinking they all would use the same and it seems to fit OK but when the heating is on and the trv is turned off, the radiator still heats up as if it was turned on...

i have a question regarding a radiator swap but i think its already being discussed here when i post the thread it says "already being discussed" so how do i search the forum my issue instead of google?

I'm hoping someone can help me get my head around understanding radiator valve pressure drop. As an example, from the attached chart, a lower pressure drop results in a lower achievable flow rate. To my mind, a lower pressure drop (i.e. less resistance to flow) should give a higher flow rate...

You may ask why I would want such a thing. Our home central heating comes on at 4.30pm. But we don't need to heat the bedrooms until 9.30pm. that's 5 hours of wasted energy every day. If we could time the thermostatic valves to come on at 9.30 it would solve the problem. I know I could install a...

Hi All! My first post here.. I need some help from someone who really understands central heating systems, pipes and radiators. New boiler installed My 20 year old Ideal Mini boiler finally failed in December with no hot water and it was leaking all over the floor. It turned out it would be...

Hello, can anyone help me please? (apologies for the layman's terms in places, but I hope you can understand what I mean). We had a new radiator installed today by a reputable plumber, as the old one had slush and would no longer heat up. I'm told the existing pipework was also flushed out. It's...

I have noticed over the past few months my boiler pressure dropping a tiny amount of 0.1 bar but were unable to find any visible leaks. This seemed to coincide with drops in temperature, and after reading similar issues checked all radiator tails and noticed 3 are weeping in the same place on...

I have 1 cold radiator that is furthest away from the combi boiler. I have balanced the radiator so that the lockshield valve is all the way open, however no hot water coming through the TRV. When all the other radiators are off it barely gets warm. I thought it might have been an airlock so...

Hi, Our hallway radiator burst on Christmas Eve - it’s the second time it’s had a leak so I reckon, as it’s from the 70’s, it’s time for a new one. I’ve fitted radiators before and done bits of plumbing so I reckon I can do it. The wife wants a smaller radiator but a double so we get the same...

We’re recently moved in to a new house, and we have quite a mixture of radiator configurations. What’s this setup? 2 feeds on the left and lockshield in the right. Is there a reason to setup this way? Haven’t come across it before. I’m assuming 1 flow and 2 return.

I am buying a flat at the moment and all the radiators have just one inlet where the 2 pipes enter. Is this a twin entry valve? Ideally I would like to renew the radiators so would like to know if I can swap them for new radiators and re route the pipes to either side with standard inlet and...