GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Is there some kind of romance here?
Heating
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GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
No.
Get in there
I ain't mixing with no welshy. only just got away from the place. Oh and married for 5 years with a 6ft Rock Ferry girl.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
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no just rootin' by the ponds in the park, and lost underwear.
the rads that are cold at the top are the ones that need bleeding, i find that it's the one that is first in the loop from the hot-tank, after i bleed it i often find that it needs a bit more after a day or so, after i bleed that one then the others get hotter as well.
Hayee
Player Valuation: £40m
No.
Get in there
not what you said last night!
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Nah its some ancient language only spoken in The Red Lion in Ruthin and the Coed Mawr market.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
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in which case there is .....
- no water in them
- they aren't turned on
- it's all gone tits up
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
You need the Saw Dust man.
Hayee
Player Valuation: £40m
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Yeah, it's an experience.
Cahill's Metatarsal
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To bleed a radiator look at the top of the side of it. It'll have 2 nut type things that are a couple of inches in diameter, 1 will be flat, 1 will have another small nut in the centre of it. Go to the 1 with the nut in & use either a radiator key or screwdriver (if it has the slot as modern 1s do) to slowly turn it until air hisses out. Have an old cloth/bowl to hand to catch the water that spills out & then give it a while to heat up.
Depending on what type of boiler you have, you might need to top up the pressure again afterwards (if you have a combination boiler you'll need to) which is really simple on most boilers. It's usually a case of turning 1 or a couple of little tap handles until it reaches the right level on the gauge.
If bleeding doesn't work turn all the other radiators off & leave the dodgy 1 on on it's own for about half an hour. That sometimes forces things around & sorts it out.
Sounds like the sludge in your system could be building up meaning you could need a flush of some kind. Depending on the age of your system, the best thing is a Power Flush (also known as a Jet Flush) which involves hooking up a machine to your system & blasting a chemical around it to remove some of the [Poor language removed]. They're expensive due to the amount of time they take (depends on how bad the build-up is but they take at least a few hours) & the price of the machines & no places that I know of guarantee they'll work but the vast, vast majority sort the problem out.
I have a habit of forgetting about threads after I've posted in them so if you need any more help & I don't respond PM me a reminder
Depending on what type of boiler you have, you might need to top up the pressure again afterwards (if you have a combination boiler you'll need to) which is really simple on most boilers. It's usually a case of turning 1 or a couple of little tap handles until it reaches the right level on the gauge.
If bleeding doesn't work turn all the other radiators off & leave the dodgy 1 on on it's own for about half an hour. That sometimes forces things around & sorts it out.
Sounds like the sludge in your system could be building up meaning you could need a flush of some kind. Depending on the age of your system, the best thing is a Power Flush (also known as a Jet Flush) which involves hooking up a machine to your system & blasting a chemical around it to remove some of the [Poor language removed]. They're expensive due to the amount of time they take (depends on how bad the build-up is but they take at least a few hours) & the price of the machines & no places that I know of guarantee they'll work but the vast, vast majority sort the problem out.
I have a habit of forgetting about threads after I've posted in them so if you need any more help & I don't respond PM me a reminder
Jamo Martinez
Player Valuation: £70m
You branching out mate. Let no-one say this lad's a one trick ponyist.
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