radiator

Hi there, I recently had a new radiator fitted in our bedroom with a thermostatic valve on one side of it. At around 6am when the heating comes on the valve 'clicks' as the radiator warms up. A bit of Googling and it seems the noise is from the spring bouncing in and out and the 'fix' is to...

Ultimate plan is to update all rads and pipework but as an immediate job I'm putting a new rad on the landing and a towel rad in bathroom which currently has no heating. Photo shows the connection to existing landing rad, would it be reasonable to remove the narrow pipe and connect new probably...

Just refilled my system and a few rads will not come on. I'm assuming I have an airlock somewhere but I just wanted to clarify something. On a cold radiator, I use a drain off valve or bleed key to take out a reasonable amount of water. I then find one of the pipes getting hot, however, it is...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help with this. I have a radiator pipe that goes into the radiator, but just before that it splits off to a short terminated end that I assume would have been connected elsewhere long ago... this small end of pipe has some straggly 'thread' hanging off it. Perhaps...

Hello everyone wanted some advice on our Central heating system in our flat we brought 3 years ago...we inherited the system from the previous owners who probably already had it for 4 years... Junkers boiler Ceranorm and thermosta (set to come on 6am-11pm at 21C) Grundfos pump on timer (set to...

I am working from home at the top of the house in a converted attic. As this is the top of the house, I usually bleed the radiator quite often due to air pockets which is fine and the Radiator gets hot. This is a new radiator, but it seems suddenly every 30 mins or so while the heating is on...

I have a Column radiator to fit to a porcelain tiled bathroom wall. The wall is breeze block covered (by solid bed of tile adhesive) with 12mm marmox board. The column radiator has four brackets with two fixing holes on each and come with screws and wall plugs. My questions are around the...

Hello. I have fitted smart TRVs to nearly all my rads. However, when only 1 or 2 rads calling for heat then system noise is quite loud. I've been advised bypass valve will sort out noise and avoid me having to leave one rad without a TRV. The easiest place for me to access is directly above...

I have a faulty TRV. When the pin is fully open, it's fine. But I notice it leaks when the pin is depressed and the TRV is off. I've tried giving it a tap, wiggle, and some WD40. I'm looking to replace the TRV and re-use the nut/olive - so I can swap the TRV over without having to cut any pipe...

Hi everyone, Hope you can help. I have some sludge in a radiator that needs flushed, so I'm trying to remove the radiator. We just moved into the house, and I'm not familiar with this type of valve (H Block I think?) Basically, I'm not sure whether there is a lockshield valve, which I'm...

Hi, We had our approximately 7 year old logic combi 30 boiler moved earlier this week. It was only along the wall about 6 foot so no major pipe changes and this was done by a registered gas safe engineer. The following night we tried to turn our central heating on. The first two in the chain...

I'm planning to replace all my old and broken TRVs, 5 in total. I then wondered if I should be replacing my radiators? See the photo, these must be 20 years old I imagine, are there more efficient ones these days? If so, any reccomendations? Advice would be great thanks

Hi all, I understand that a CH system requires that at least one radiator have no TRV to prevent the user from closing all valves, and overheating the system, but I have also read on this forum that the radiator lacking a TRV is typically placed near the thermostat...

Hey all, I am aware that Stelrad is a more renowned radiator brand than the own brand SF ones, Kudox. However, when I look at the spec for the same typology and size of radiator, I see that: Kudox has more BTU Kudox has a 15y guarantee, Stelrad 10y only Kudox has a greater max working...

Hey all, Ok so we have a Vokera Compact A 25kw boiler and 5 radiators (plus two towel rails) in the 3 bed house we’ve bought. We wanted to change one of the downstairs rads to be one of these designer tall radiators. Plumber has installed it and then when we’ve turned the heating on, all...

Hi, our boiler packed in and we're having a new one installed in a couple of weeks, along with new radiators. One of the walls with an existing radiator needs replastering, and more replastering will need to be done around the old back boiler site once it's been removed. I'd far rather get the...

Hi, I’ve recently bought a new build house. I’m looking to change a standard double panel 600mm x 600mm radiator to a vertical radiator which is 1800mm x 480 mm. The vertical radiator weighs around 45-50kg before water. I think the current one is probably only 20kg before water. The current...

Hi all, I had a bathroom installed a few years ago which included a towel rail/radiator. When you turn the valve to increase/decrease the heat a small amount of water will spill out quickly and then it will drip consistently. In order to stop it dripping there are a few 'sweet spots' on the...

Hi, Is it possible (and how?) to dismantle the push fit connection on this elbow? Or is it easier to just cut the pipe?))) Kind regards,

A big thank-you to all that have advice over the past couple of weeks on my radiator install especially but in no particular order @polesapart, @ianmcd, @Lower, @Madrab, @Nige F and @JimCrow. So far...so good: I'm glad I persevered with the bends as I think it made the runs cleaner in the...