So the other day, I needed to remove the bleeding vent from my bathroom towel rail so I could pour in the system cleaning chemicals to it, having just isolated both valves at the bottom and then drained the water from it.
First issue was the hive TRV valve decided to open up when the the actual valve body was unscrewed from the radiator, spraying high pressure water everywhere! Thankfully I managed to put my finger over the TRV valve outlet with enough pressure to stop the water, which had just been removed from the towel rail, and then quickly swap out the Hive TRV for a normal TRV that was thankfully within reach of my other arm.
Moving on and when I was finally tightening back up the bleed vent at the top of the towel rail having just re-fitted the TRV valve at the bottom and then filled it up with cleaning chemicals, the fixings decided to break and come out of the wall, made worse by the fact that the return side of the pipe was still of course tightened to the radiator above the closed isolation balancing valve. So I am now fighting a towel rail that is falling of the wall, with fresh cleaning chemicals in it (ready to be circulated around the system), whilst trying to undo the very tight compression fitting holding the closed isolation balancing valve onto the towel rail whilst the whole thing is falling away from the wall.
In the end, I used gripit's to fix the towel rail back to the wall and then pour the cleaning chemicals back in, what I managed to collect when I drained the rad for a second time when undoing the compression fitting holding the closed isolation balancing valve onto the towel rail.
Regards: Elliott.
First issue was the hive TRV valve decided to open up when the the actual valve body was unscrewed from the radiator, spraying high pressure water everywhere! Thankfully I managed to put my finger over the TRV valve outlet with enough pressure to stop the water, which had just been removed from the towel rail, and then quickly swap out the Hive TRV for a normal TRV that was thankfully within reach of my other arm.
Moving on and when I was finally tightening back up the bleed vent at the top of the towel rail having just re-fitted the TRV valve at the bottom and then filled it up with cleaning chemicals, the fixings decided to break and come out of the wall, made worse by the fact that the return side of the pipe was still of course tightened to the radiator above the closed isolation balancing valve. So I am now fighting a towel rail that is falling of the wall, with fresh cleaning chemicals in it (ready to be circulated around the system), whilst trying to undo the very tight compression fitting holding the closed isolation balancing valve onto the towel rail whilst the whole thing is falling away from the wall.
In the end, I used gripit's to fix the towel rail back to the wall and then pour the cleaning chemicals back in, what I managed to collect when I drained the rad for a second time when undoing the compression fitting holding the closed isolation balancing valve onto the towel rail.
Regards: Elliott.
