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Removing a bathroom radiator

When you remove a radiator to replace it for one of those towel warmer ones. Do the big nuts that connect to the valves stay on the radiator and if so do you remove them anti clockwise or clockwise

LoungeLizard

How do Combi-Boilers deal with variable water flow rates?

Suppose that someone is running a hot tap that is supplied with its hot water from a Combi-Boiler. The tap is only about a third open; and water pours out at the pre-set temperature on the boiler. The...

Shells7

No heating

I have a Potterton Combi boiler and every now and then nothing happens when I turn the boiler to constant. When it has happened before it has fixed itself somehow but this time it's been a few days....

spearmint

Old Boiler. Ideal Elan 2

I'm having trouble with an old boiler.(but enough about the wife) My old central heating boiler has a very short on/off cycle. It switches on for perhaps 60 to 90 seconds then off for a similar period...

sheila2155

back boiler

to anybody out there! should the gas board have removed my back boiler when they put in my baxi boiler? they removed the cisterns and left the back boiler behind the fire along with copper piping...

Aero Sparky

Leaking Diverter Valve on Combi Boiler

Can someone help with a plumbing question? My Combi boiler (Model: Boxer C24) is leaking. On close inspection this water is coming from a small hole just below the diverter valve. Does this mean I...

ronmuscat

no hot water

i have recently replaced a hotwater tap at the kitchen sink . the next day the back boiler was not heating the water to a hot temp . can any one help please ?

mrmnko

shakin stevens

where was shakin stevens born?

mum121

Cold Water Stop Tap

Help, which way do I turn it to switch off the water?

Proactivity

Shampoo

Why does the second application of shampoo lather up so much more than the first?

shower

Who can I report cowboy builders to?

I purchased a house that was renovated by a property developer but over the 2 years i have lived here i have found some shocking and dangerous things that he has done in renovating the property,...

donegal

Beer

What is your fave beer?

Loosehead

Scotland Smoking Ban

Anyone in Scotland, what's it like? are there masses of downtrodden smokers huddling in groups outside the bars?

jimboy2

phrases that make my blood boil

there are certain phrases i wish to irradicate from society as they have no use except to annoy me "To Be Honest" why oh why unless your a pathological liar do you need to tell me that you are about...

Jackson74

Bleeding radiators?!

How do you do this, as never done before? I have one radiator that will not heat up all of a sudden? Thanks in advance!!

nicolajane

central heating

I am trying to find out if it is possible to replace a old boiler with a conbi boiler without replaceing rads and pipe work.

DirtyHabit

Combi boiler/heating

I have done a fair bit of plumbing but have not had much to do with combi boilers. I need to move a radiator. What is the procedure for refilling the system?

DonKiddick

Plumbing problem

My daughter lives in a smallish flat and has just had a new bathroom fitted. The bathroom is adjacent to the kitchen and presumably uses the same waste pipes. Whenever she empties (for example) tea...

packadarm

balanceing heating system,s

Please help The best way to balance the red's in heating system Many thanks