For your entertainment...
It would have been really useful to have had a drain valve for my central heating at various times over the years since I've lived here, but there didn't seem to be one. Eventually I replaced a lockshield with a combined lockshield+drain.
Tomorrow a new carpet is being fitted in the spare bedroom. I thought I'd see if I could resolve a squeeking floorboard before it gets hidden. I lifted the old underlay, and the squeek is marked by a large black X painted on the floorboards! How strange. So rather then just screw it down more firmly, I decide to lift it and see if there is anything underneath .... and yes, you've guessed it, there is a handy valve that drains the central hearing into the redundant overflow from the pre-combi header tank, out into the garden.
Hint to CH installers: your lovely valve is no use if no-one knows it is there! How about a sticker on the wall next to the boiler, or in the airing cupboard, for the benefit of future owners?
It would have been really useful to have had a drain valve for my central heating at various times over the years since I've lived here, but there didn't seem to be one. Eventually I replaced a lockshield with a combined lockshield+drain.
Tomorrow a new carpet is being fitted in the spare bedroom. I thought I'd see if I could resolve a squeeking floorboard before it gets hidden. I lifted the old underlay, and the squeek is marked by a large black X painted on the floorboards! How strange. So rather then just screw it down more firmly, I decide to lift it and see if there is anything underneath .... and yes, you've guessed it, there is a handy valve that drains the central hearing into the redundant overflow from the pre-combi header tank, out into the garden.
Hint to CH installers: your lovely valve is no use if no-one knows it is there! How about a sticker on the wall next to the boiler, or in the airing cupboard, for the benefit of future owners?
and we like to make it hard for everybody.
