radiators

I'm putting central heating into a flat which previously had storage heaters. I found evidence of poor ventilation, with black mould build-up most pronounced in the bedrooms. I suspect this is due to a lack of trickle vents in the double glazing. The floor is concrete and the walls are cavity...

Our house was converted from an old barn in 1986. The builder installed microbore central heating with the ground floor pipes buried in the slab. Unsurprisingly, we have just suffered a pretty major leak which drops the pressure from 2 bar to zero in 15 minutes. The walls in the area are...

Hi all hoping somebody can help. Noticed last week that when the hot waters on some of the radiators are coming on for the 30 mins that the hot waters on for. I've turned most of the radiators off but that only hides the problem :unsure: I've tried moving the manual/auto switch on the...

Hello. we have a Stanley 80 twin cooker with 2 burners in one for CH part, one for cooker part. I had it apart yesterday to clean out combustion chamber and noted that the blast tube on the CH burner had this white bloom on it. The boiler/cooker had a service nov 2015. Both burners on the cooker...

Evening all, I have taken the decision to change my bedroom radiator, its only a single type 11 currently and just is not producing enough heat. I think imp going to op for the type 21 not 22 as the larger one will be overkill and stick out from the wall 107mm as its a Barlow from screw-fix...

Hi all, I've just moved in to a rented 3 storey house which has 12 radiators run from a Baxi 80e combi boiler. When we moved in the plumber said that the boiler or the pump wasn't good enough to heat all 12 radiators so we decided to turn off all the radiators apart from those on the ground...

Hello plumbers Can someone let me know if a quote i have received is reasonable, i am located in the West of Scotland. I am wanting to replace 3 radiators in my house, 2 large old single ones and a small double from 80/s early 90s. Having them replaced with Kudox 22 doubles. New radiators...

Hi I have a Grant Vortex Pro 36 Electronic Condensing Combi Oil Boiler (PDF Manual is here). For the taps the hot water delivery is immediate and as soon as the hot water tap comes on. It's hot as soon as the length of pipe is flushed out. Radiators are sometimes almost instantly hot, as soon...

Hi I was hoping for some help and advice. I recently undertook a decorating project in my two bedrooms upstairs. I removed the radiator in each room, closing the TRVs to isolate them both. All was going fine until about a week later (with the radiators still removed) one of the TRVs had started...